Sankat City

"Sankat City" attempts to mine comedy gold from a premise that could've worked—two bumbling thieves caught in a gangster's crosshairs, memory loss, a ticking clock—but director Siddharth Sengupta fumbles the execution badly. The problem isn't the concept; it's the lazy writing and performances that feel like they're sleepwalking through a half-baked heist-comedy. Arjun Kapoor and Ravi Kishan share zero chemistry, and their supposed buddy banter lands with all the impact of a rubber hammer. The humor defaults to slapstick and crude gags when the script desperately needs wit, and watching Ganpat's convenient amnesia play out as plot convenience rather than genuine character conflict is insulting to the audience's intelligence.

What little potential exists gets strangled by uneven pacing and a tone that can't decide if it's a caper film or a slapstick farce—it ends up being neither. The supporting cast (including Sengupta's inclusion of Anupriya Goenka) tries to inject energy, but they're all constrained by a screenplay that mistakes noise for humor. Even the threat of Faujdaar feels toothless; a gangster antagonist needs menace, and this film treats the whole situation like a cartoon. The music doesn't elevate anything, the cinematography is functional at best, and at just over two hours, it still manages to feel bloated. This is the cinematic equivalent of a three-day deadline itself—rushed, desperate, and ultimately forgettable.

Rating: 4/10