[5] Pocket Gangsters is the story of the world of crime where some criminals have set their goals on kidnapping and making hostage demand ransoms from the relatives or friends of those taken.

What begins as drama becomes a comic thriller when they turn their criminal attention toward the daughter of a wealthy man in order to gain millions.

[3] Director Hemant Nilim Das related that the film "is loosely based on the story of the kidnapping and murder of an NGO-activist Sanjay Ghose" as "a hostage drama cum comic thriller,"[8] and inspired by events centered in Guwahati, an area which has become "the epicenter of child-kidnapping".

This angered the director and resulted in his sending a legal notice to news and content website IndyanNewz.com for their unauthorized leaking of the film's proprietary property.

[4][5] Times of India praised the project, writing "The plot has numerous twists and turns, the storytelling is highly cathartic and music is romantic.