Directed by Bumpy for Y-Films, an offshoot of Yash Raj Films, this low-budget, low-rent comedy thriller starts out as a bumbling bank heist where everyone's a conscious idiot -- the victimiser, the victim.
There are ample opportunities after its revolver-totting troika of thieves (Ritesh Deshmukh, Vikram Thapa and Bhuvan Arora) announces their intention to rob a bank but quickly reveal their ineptitude at the job, especially since one of the hostages happen to be rapper Baba Sehgal.
Outside the bank though, cops and CBI led by Vivek Oberoi looking like a 21st century musketeer, twiddle their fingers and bark 'No comments' to the media, basically one journalist (Rhea Chakraborty), while the loony robbers drag on the circus.
Champak and his sidekicks have never robbed a bank ever before. So under the name of being innocent, they get to play dumb, which isn't all that funny. Their attempts at humour quickly turn annoying as there's a joke in nearly every sentence spoken, several of which fail to land. Seriously, 30 minutes in the film, and I was hard-pressed to find one joke that made me laugh out loud.
Champak and his two stooges hold hostages in the unimaginatively titled 'Bank of Indians,' and take forward YRF's famed penchant for institutional aversion (system-creates-criminals and all that) and villainous banking systems (Dhoom 3 being the most notorious example). This portion seesaws between inside-joke parody (Baba Sehgal's self-depreciatory cameo) and awkward-kid-trying-too-hard dialogues, with even Vivek Oberoi (a stiff CBI officer named Amjad Khan) doing his best Suniel-Shetty-meets-Sharad-Saxena impersonation.
Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Anand Oberoi and Rhea Chakraborty play dimwits who attempt to rob a bank in Bank-Chor, a Hindi film which the producers claim, tongue-in-cheek, will push the boundaries for cinema technology.
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