Producer: Abbas-Mustan
Director: Abbas-Mustan
Starring: Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Bobby Deol, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Omi Vaidya, Sikandar Kher, Johnny Lever, Vinod Khanna
Music: Pritam
Lyrics: Ashish Pandit
Genre: Thriller
Film Released on: 06 January 2012
Storyline
The dictionary explains the Stockholm Syndrome as “an apparently paradoxical psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and have positive feelings towards their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness.”Now this bit of digression is important to explain the concoction of emotions you may feel when you go to watch Players. We are held captive by the makers for about two and a half hours, held at ransom in an Abbas-Mastan universe where sense and sensibility has been dethroned by the absurd and the stupid! But instead of harboring revenge and disgust for our captors we empathize with them and almost willingly succumb to this mindless malady. The Stockholm syndrome proving to be the only logical explanation of our rather illogical act of sitting through this film.
Ok so Players is weird. The dialogues are comic. The acting conspicuous by its absence and the editing patchy to say the least. The official remake of the Italian Job, the makers of this one should go in for a nose job! Why would you not stick to the original if you have the official license to do so? Why would you spoil the broth by mixing too many creative thoughts and ideas? As in fantasy and so in Players, everything can happen at the ‘click’ of a button. ‘Click’: Russian government systems are hacked. ‘Click’: Romanian gold is flicked. ‘Click’: Russians are fooled. ‘Click’: Villain is found. ‘Click’: The hero fights…you get the picture by now?
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