Film Review: Bank Chor
Riteish Deshmukh and Vivek Oberoi provided some antics in their ‘Masti’ series. In the long awaited ‘Bank Chor’ (the title’s refrain sounds conveniently like the Indian expletive — and one guesses, deliberately so), Champak Chandrakant Chiplunkar (RD) and his inept cronies from Delhi, Genda (Vikram Thapa) and Gulab (Bhuvan Arora) hijack a bank. In the thoughtfully named Bank of Indians — with such a lame storyline, any other nationality and the filmmakers would have been sued — staff and customers are held to ransom as the lumbering trio have no qualms about getting their identities revealed.
The bank alarm going off is the entry for the moustache-twirling, biceps-revealing, CBI officer Amjad Khan (Vivek Oberoi in one of his least impressive performances)— now would that be due to the incoherent screenplay or his long absence from the screen? And then there is the lovely leggy TV reporter GaGa, that’s Gayatri Ganguly (DJ/Model Rhea Chakraborty), whose only job is to keep irking Amjad Khan. Turns out, but not for long, there’s a cop planted in the bank — Jugnu (Sahil Vaid).
Even in a run–time of two hours — which seems surprisingly long — the writers (Baljeet Singh Marwah and Ishita Moitkar) find time for the Vaastu-believer Marathi manoos Champak to lock horns with his two cronies over a Mumbai v/s Delhi debate. Also, the Police v/s CBI v/s ATS sub-plot could have fetched more eyeballs had it been given more screen space.
The twists and turns (there are flashbacks within flashbacks) somewhat saves the film from being a complete dud—but does it come a bit late? This film, with its bank robbery premise, surely has the capacity to cram in more thrills and chills, but the filmmakers seem to have missed their mark.
