After the brilliance of Lucky Baskhar, Zebra feels like a massive step backward for the banking thriller genre. What should have been an intelligent heist film crumbles under the weight of fundamental misinformation about how banks actually operate.
Director Eashvar Karthic’s screenplay is so riddled with banking inaccuracies that it becomes impossible to maintain any suspension of disbelief. Unlike Lucky Baskhar, which respected both its subject matter and audience intelligence, Zebra treats financial systems like convenient plot devices rather than real institutions with actual protocols.
Satyadev tries his best, but even solid performances can’t salvage a script that doesn’t understand its own premise. The film’s technical ignorance isn’t just sloppy filmmaking- it’s insulting to viewers who expect basic research and authenticity.
Where Lucky Baskhar educated while entertaining, Zebra misinforms while boring. Thirty minutes was generous; this banking thriller needed better homework before attempting to school audiences on financial crime.
Rating: Unwatchable.
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