Bank Chor

Bank Chor
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Bumpy
Screenplay by	Baljeet Singh Marwah Bumpy Omkar Sane Ishita Moitra
Dialogues by	Ishita Moitra
Story by	Baljeet Singh Marwah Bumpy
Produced by	Ashish Patil
Starring	Riteish Deshmukh Vivek Oberoi Rhea Chakraborty Sahil Vaid Bhuvan Arora Vikram Thappa
Cinematography	Adil Afsar
Edited by	Saurabh Kulkarni
Music by	Shri Shriram Kailash Kher Rochak Kohli Shamir Tandon Baba Sehgal
Production company	Y-Films
Distributed by	Yash Raj Films
Release date	16 June 2017 (2017-06-16)
Running time	120 minutes[1]
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹15 crore[2]
Box office	₹9.85 crores[2]

Bank Chor (transl. Bank robber) is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language black comedy film directed by Bumpy, written by Baljeet Singh Marwah and produced by Ashish Patil under the banner Y-Films. The film stars Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi, Rhea Chakraborty, Sahil Vaid, Bhuvan Arora, and Vikram Thapa.^[3]

The film was released on 16 June 2017.^[4]

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The plot starts with a simple Marathi manoos and a Vaastu adherent, Champak Chandrakant Chiplunkar (Riteish Deshmukh), who is planning to rob a local bank in Mumbai. Two of his friends, Genda (Vikram Thapa) and Gulab (Bhuvan Arora), assist him in orchestrating the robbery. In preparation for the heist, Champak disguises himself as a sadhu, and his accomplices wear elephant and horse masks. The bandits successfully make it past the bank's security carrying weapons, thereafter taking over the entire bank at gunpoint. But the heist soon unravels rather haphazardly, resulting in the robbers seizing twenty-eight individuals inside the bank hostage.

Among the hostages inside the bank, consisting of seventeen men and eleven women, are bank staff and customers, including a nervous housewife, a sassy female bank teller, a hyperactive male chef, the Rapper (Baba Sehgal), and Jugnu (Sahil), who is purporting to be a Faizabadi undercover police officer on duty.

Powerless and defenseless, each hostage is soon tied up with his (or her) hands zip-tied behind his (or her) back. The robbers bundle the bound hostages into a back room and force the manager to open the vault. Champak continues composing stories to persuade the hostages about his white-collar class foundation to compensate for the fortune that has evaded him. In any case, things get off-track rapidly, making the bank robbers run into Amjad Khan (Vivek Oberoi)who is a heartless and tough CBI officer with a “shoot first ask questions later” attitude. The CBI officer threatens to use force against the bank robbers, giving them a one-hour deadline to surrender and not caring about the hostages’ lives if the deadline expires.

In the midst of everything occurring inside the bank, there is a much larger plot unfolding as the Indian Minister of Home Affairs takes an interest in the bank robbery; there is a disk inside the bank with compromising information that threatens to destroy his political career. There is also the expected mad-media circus outside the bank led by crime reporter Gayatri Ganguly aka Gaga (Rhea Chakraborty) whose idol in the movie is Arnab Goswami.

Eventually, Champak and his accomplices decided to end the bank robbery and free the bank staff and customers, removing the zip-ties fastening their hands behind their backs and letting them all go. But just as the hostages are about to exit the bank, one of them, Jugnu reveals himself to be a ruthless bank robber who is secretly working for the Indian Home Minister to procure the compromising disc that threatens to expose him in a political scandal. In a transition of power from the old bank robbers to the new bank robbers, Jugnu and his fellow perpetrators hijack the bank at gunpoint, shooting and seriously wounding an elderly male hostage and taking the original bank robbers, Champak and his accomplices, as their own hostages in a new bank robbery. As the sands of power inside the bank shift from Champak to Jugnu, Jugnu forces the old bank robbers to assist him and his team with their own bank heist.

In the meantime, the twenty-seven remaining bank staff and customers are forced to transition from being Champak's hostages to becoming Jugnu's hostages. The ruthless new bank robbers force the hostages to kneel on the ground; each bank employee and customer is now compelled to keep his (or her) hands behind his (or her) head at all times.

While all this chaos is unfolding, Amjad Khan discovers that Champak is no longer the real bank robber but his efforts to investigate the bank robbery are thwarted as the corrupt Minister for Home Affairs orders the investigation of the ongoing bank robbery transferred from the CBI to the local Mumbai police in an effort to help Jugnu.

At one point the CBI officer is invited to enter the bank to check that all the hostages are still alive and safe. The CBI officer enters the premises to discover the terrified bank staff and customers inside a back room, all compelled to sit on the floor with their hands behind their heads. During this time Jugnu instructs Champak to try and fool the CBI officer by pretending that he (i.e. Champak) is still the bank robber and that he (i.e. Jugnu) is still a hostage. At this point, Champak offers to let the CBI officer take the injured elderly male hostage for medical treatment. When the CBI officer leaves, Jugnu beats up Champak for letting one of the hostages go, much to the alarm and fright of the remaining hostages.

Eventually, Champak and his partners outwit Jugnu and his accomplices and help free all the captives inside the bank. In an act of chivalry, Champak and his team help free the female hostages first. But eventually, all the hostages are freed. The released bank workers and customers embrace Champak and his partners as their heroes for saving their lives. Jugnu is ultimately captured. The corrupt Minister for Home Affairs is exposed when the information on the disk inside the bank becomes public knowledge.

At the end, it is revealed that the three who freed the hostages were the actual bank robbers who robbed many banks, and all the work done by them was a part to expose the home minister, who killed his partner, who was a journalist, while he was gathering evidence against the home minister. They were also the actual persons who ran away with the money. Amjad Khan admits that they are the only robbers whose minds he could not read.

• Riteish Deshmukh as Champak
• Vivek Oberoi as CBI Officer Amjad Khan
• Rhea Chakraborty as Gayatri Ganguly
• Sahil Vaid as Jugnu
• Bhuvan Arora as Gulab
• Vikram Thapa as Genda
• Vikram Gokhale as Shashank Thakur
• Upendra Limaye as Home Minister Dongarvide
• Naveen Kaushik as Ashutosh Sharma
• Sandesh Kulkarni as ACP Akhilesh Aane
• Kavish Majumdar as Mukesh
• Harpal Singh Sokhi as Fake Sardar Hostage
• Baba Sehgal as himself (special appearance)

The soundtrack was released on 24 May 2017 by YRF Music.

Bollywood Hungama gave 1.5/5 stars, writing "Bank Chor is a damp squib right from the word go. It does not have any potential to score".^[5] Nihit Bhave of The Times of India gave 2.5/5 stars, writing "A better plan of action and a few dry runs with the script would have ensured a product to bank on".^[6] Firstpost wrote "Despite its many misses, Bank Chor has more verve. Whatever little progress Bumpy has made as a filmmaker, however, is far outweighed by the insidious messaging of this film which cashes in on the prejudices that wrack Indian society today below a mask of good intentions, comedy and thrills".^[7] Raja Sen of NDTV wrote "Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi's film starts off being about blank chors, and ends up a bank bore".^[8] Sweta Kaushal of The Hindustan Times gave 1/5 stars, writing "This is an aspiring comic thriller that fails miserably at being either. Even brilliant actor Riteish Deshmukh and his gang of “stupid thieves” fail to rise above the lame storyline and its pathetic comic sense".^[9]

• Bank Chor at IMDb