madurai armed with chilli powder pepper spray and a knife 22yearold kalil rahman walked into the indian overseas bank branch on thadikombu road in dindigul on tuesday morning with the swagger of a rogue action hero his aim was to leave with wads of cash after committing the robbery in a matter of minutes as in any heist film alas his plan backfired and kalil is cooling his heels in prison instead police said kalil barged into the bank around 930 am once inside he took out the chilli powder and hurled it at the employees nearby he then threatened those who resisted with a knife and pepper spray he caught four of them and tied their hands using plastic tags what he did not see was one of the employees slipping out and alerting the banks security personnel outside the security personnel along with the manager pushed him down and relieved him of his knife they overpowered him before shoving him into a room and locking the door kalils bravado didnt last long as he tried to plead with the bank employees to let him go as he had not harmed anyone police however arrived by then and took custody of the robber the dindigul town west police registered a case during questioning kalil confessed to have been inspired by a lot of tamil movies including thunivu which centres around a bank heist he said that when he tried to go for jobs he was paid low salaries of around 7000 hence he wanted to rob a bank and make quick money said v baskaran superintendent of police dindigul kalil was remanded to judicial custody