Creator Saurav Dey brings to us a convoluted story of two siblings trying to loot a bank out of desperation to save their ancestral home from mounting debts but the plan backfires when actual dacoits enter the building and kidnap a small child. Will Latika and Palash be able to save the child and their home or face the consequences of their twisted plans?
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Loot Kaand MX Player Cast
Tanya Maniktala, Sahil Mehta, Gyanendra Tripathi, Saad Bilgrami, Brij Bhushan Shukla, Akash Sinha, Manwendra Tripathy, Ronjini Chakraborty, Prashansa Sharma, Mihika Vasavada
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Loot Kaand Series Director
Ruchir Arun
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Loot Kaand 2025 Screenwriters
Ruchir Arun, Aman Mannan, Ritu Shri
The series has 6 episodes, each with a runtime of around 40 minutes.
Loot Kaand Review
In MX Player’s Loot Kaand, Tanya Maniktala is a semi-detective (well, not officially) who thinks once before jumping into her wayward brother’s insane idea to rob a bank. The series hinges on the believability that two youngsters with no real idea about robberies will be able to pull this off scot-free before anyone can realise what’s happening. Of course, corruption and lawlessness in the state help, and a little bit of suspension of disbelief.
I think Loot Kaand is quite the light and breezy watch. There’s not a lot at stake and the series wraps up its many storylines by the end, giving us a rundown of everything that we watched throughout its 6 episodes. It hinges on a young child keeping a robbery a secret from the police and the parents. It expects us to believe that they wouldn’t buckle under the immense pressure of pulling something like this off and having the presence of mind and maturity to do it not once, but twice, especially after watching a guy being shot to death. I mean, I know life in West Bengal is not for the weak and all, but there has to be a limit to what a seemingly normal child is able to do.
The series follows Latika and Palash who buckle under the immense debts taken on by their father and decide to rob a bank to repay the loans. Not only is this not a normal thought process that middle-class people don’t jump to, but it also puts a rather bad light on our protagonist whom we are supposed to feel bad for. I mean, sure, I can feel their desperation, but the fact that Latika pulls this young child into a dangerous plot and jumps to bank robbing and forging her old grandmother’s signature makes for a bad person. There are no two ways about it. Regardless of how the creators try to tell us that Latika is actually a good person forced to do something bad, I would like to assume that morality would forbid me from embroiling a child in robbery at the very least.
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I also found this plot to be a bit silly and so many things could’ve gone wrong that the chance of everything going right feels a bit far-fetched. How these two people turned out to be this good at committing crime is questionable at best and will make you not want to take the series seriously. I guess viewers will find it entertaining if they don’t dive too deep into it as it works best as a forgettable entertainer. The series ends off on sort of a cliffhanger, leaving space for the story to be taken further if it decides on a season 2. At this point, I am thankful that the story answers almost all of its questions instead of making us wait which probably says more about the state of OTT entertainment than anything else.
Taniya Maniktala is great in the series and so is Sahil Mehta as her brother Palash. I am sure why no one speaks Bengali in spite of living in West Bengal but I digress. I think Gyanendra Tripathi’s required more dissection, which is a miss, but he’s great in the series.
Final Thoughts
I think Loot Kaand is quite entertaining if you don’t dig too deep into it. The pacing is good and the twists are enough to keep viewers engaged for its short runtime. However, don’t expect too much from it unless you want to leave disappointed!
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