While earlier it was comedian Kapil Sharma who had been approached to play the lead in YRF's 'Bank-Chor', Bollywood actor Riteish Deshmukh has now bagged the role.

It was recently announced that Kapil Sharma and YRF have parted ways mutually and now the banner has roped in Riteish as the new male lead. 

"YRF has decided to really scale up the Y-Films project by bringing in Riteish, who has one of the most successful track records in the industry. Bank-Chor is scheduled to go on the floors immediately and is planned for an early 2015 release," said a statement released by the banner.

Speaking about the offer, Riteish said, "Loved the script. Loved the character. Loved the team. I've always liked to push the envelope with the choices I make. This film allows me to potentially rip it apart. Watch out there's a new Bank-Chor in town!"

'Bank-Chor' is a comic-caper, that tells the story of 3 morons trying to rob a bank who pick the worst day possible when everything that can go wrong, goes wrong and how they're inadvertently caught in the crossfire of cops, industrialists and corrupt netas.