The Great Punjab Robbery

There is something deliberately old-fashioned about the premise of *The Great Punjab Robbery*, a Punjabi-language thriller scheduled for release on August 7, 2026. Three robbers — identified in the film's setup by what are described as strange or unusual names — walk into an ordinary bank somewhere in Punjab and take it over. What follows, according to the available description, is not the familiar hostage-negotiation procedural that the genre has rehearsed countless times. There are no demands. There is no ransom. Instead, the robbers begin sending cryptic riddles to the police, each one pulling investigators further into a mystery whose shape has not yet been publicly defined. Read more…