Bank Chor starts off as a comedy about a bank heist gone wrong with three bumbling robbers holding some bank customers and employees hostage. It's a static, confined situation which needs some inspired writing to fly. Sadly, filmmaker Bumpy and his team are unable to sustain the fun beyond a few scenes. The film refuses to engage with viewers nor does it entertain them in any manner possible.
Soon enough, there's some sinister political turn introduced too but none of the strands gets fully realised. To add to it, there's the media, cops and CBI milling around outside the bank, increasing the mess.
- Director: Bumpy
- Cast: Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi, Rhea Chakraborty, Sahil Vaid
- Storyline: What happens when a godman, an elephant) and a horse gset off to loot a bank
The film tries to be too clever with its multiple twists and turns but ends up creating a big jumble in the viewer's head. There are needless convolutions and too much back and forth and one stops caring about plotholes and shoddy resolutions after a while.
The filmmaker has quite a good set of actors at his disposal (Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi and Sahil Vaid) but ends up wasting them. Sahil Vaid gets a markedly different turn after Badrinath Ki Dulhania but is too self conscious in his turn as a bank thief.
Being a Dilliwali in Bambai, the only thing I smiled wryly at were the Delhi-Mumbai divide jokes.
