Bank Chor 2017

The film opens in Mumbai with Champak Chandrakant Chiplunkar Riteish Deshmukh, a simple Marathi man who also believes in Vaastu and who hatches a plan to rob a local bank. He is joined by two partners, Genda and Gulab Bhuvan Arora, the latter bringing a mix of loyalty and mischief to the scheme as they disguise themselves for the heist—Champak as a sadhu and his accomplices wearing elephant and horse masks. The trio blows past security and takes over the bank at gunpoint, but their poorly planned raid spirals out of control as they end up marching twenty-eight hostages into a back room while the vault is pried open.

The captive group is a cross-section of bank staff and customers, including a nervous housewife, a sharp-tongued teller, a hyperactive chef, the Rapper, and Jugnu Sahil Vaid, who pretends to be a Faizabadi undercover officer on duty. The hostages are swiftly bound with zip ties, their fates hanging on a thread as the robbers try to maintain control and calm the growing chaos.

Into this fraught situation steps Amjad Khan Vivek Oberoi, a hard-edged CBI officer who refuses to back down. He issues a stark one-hour deadline, threatening to use force if the time runs out and signaling that he will prioritize stopping the criminals over sparing the hostages’ lives if necessary. In the background, a much larger political game unfolds: the Home Minister’s office becomes entangled because a disk inside the bank holds compromising information that could derail his career.

The media circus outside the bank is led by crime reporter Gayatri Ganguly alias Gaga Rhea Chakraborty, whose sensational coverage threatens to turn the incident into a grand political spectacle. Inside, Champak and his crew attempt to sway the hostage situation with stories of their supposed white-collar generosity and a hope to recover the fortune that eluded them, even as the clock ticks down.

A dramatic turn arrives when Champak and his partners begin to free the hostages, but just as the crowd edges toward escape, Jugnu reveals himself to be more than a mere ally: he is secretly working for the Home Minister and uses the moment to hijack the operation, turning the bank into a fresh arena of danger. Jugnu and his team force the old robbers into a new heist, shooting and wounding an elderly hostage and recasting the original captors as pawns in a larger plan.

As the siege evolves, Amjad Khan discovers that Champak is not the real mastermind, and the investigation gets stalled when political interference shifts the case from the CBI to the local police. The tension inside the bank intensifies as Jugnu’s forces impose new rules on the hostages, forcing them to kneel with hands behind their heads.

In a tense sequence of counter-moves, Champak and his comrades outwit Jugnu and manage to free all the captives, prioritizing the women first as a gesture of protection and solidarity. Yet the movie’s most shocking twist remains: the three who set the hostages free were, in fact, the true bank robbers behind a series of heists, and their actions inside the bank were part of a bigger scheme to expose the Home Minister and his deadly corruption. They were also the ones who disappeared with the money, leaving Amjad Khan to admit that they are the only robbers whose minds he could not read.

As the dust settles, the Home Minister’s corrupt network is exposed by the controversial disk, and the fate of the conspirators is sealed by their own bold, high-stakes gambit. The narrative leaves viewers with a cautioned view of power, loyalty, and cunning—a reminder that in a high-pressure crisis, truth can emerge from the most unlikely places, and the line between hero and villain can blur in surprising ways.