Players
revolves around 5 con artists who are trying to steal 10000 Crs worth
of Gold from a moving train. Then Betrayal by one of them and it turns
into a revenge drama, suddenly there are all sorts of bollywood elements
like orphans, handicap children, puraane sapneys, double crosses,
triple crosses etc and in the last half hour turns simply too confusing
just to differentiate from the original. Should've stuck to the original
i say.
The biggest problem i had was, 'why can't you make
an original movie'. It's not that we are living in the 90s where we
hardly see hollywood flicks. We have already seen Italian job like a
million times and there is nothing new you can do to make a remake look
like an original and even if you can do it, why don't you make an
original only? Half the battle is lost, when you see the 3 Minis running
on the streets and realize its a copy. Next, You bollywoodize it. Why
do you want to put all that senti stuff in. Pyaar Mohabbat, Puraani
Yaadein, Apaahij Bacche, Anaath baccho ka ashram and all that. I mean,
why does it HAVE to be about some good cause !! Third, Casting. I mean
you actually think Omi Vaidya is a Punjabi Sunny Deol wannabe!! Sikandar
Kher as a Deaf. Neil Nitin Mukesh as a cyber hacker, Sonam Kapoor as
a.. wait.. i don know what she does.. You can only laugh when you hear
stuff like 'Yeh hain Duniya ke best players'. Duniya ke Best Ch****e i
tell you sounds more apt.. Fourth, the performances. You can't expect
Award winning stuff from any of the actors but i wish they could simply
act at a below average level rather than ham their way to glory in every
scene. I can go on and on and on so let's just leave it there.
The
good part is, that if you remove the bad acting and bollywoody
treatment. It does reasonable justice to the original in terms of
filming. The added twists and turns though stupid and confusing, still
add that interest factor in the last 10 minutes since the movie moves
away from the original plot (Thanks to extra characters and love
angles). Another good point was some(but only some) of the dialogues
which were actually funny and the usual Abbas Mustan Johny Lever type
comedy. In a couple sequences, you actually laugh and forget about the
misery you witnessed in the past half an hour.
Overall: If
you forget it's a remake. Then you could actually go and enjoy the
movie with all its bollywoody treatment, the story, twists & turns,
jokes after ignoring the bad acting and corny dialogues.
Feel-O-Meter: 4/10 if you have seen the original. 6/10 if you haven't