POOR HASH OF A PERFECTLY GOOD ITALIAN JOB
Players is a landmark film for Hindi cinema. Make no mistake about it. For the first time ever, a production company has bought the remake rights of a Hollywood film (The Italian Job, which was originally a British heist caper) instead of merrily copying it frame by frame without any acknowledgment of the source. Ironically, the Burmawala brothers (Abbas-Mustan) decided the original script wasn't good enough for their reputation as twist-a-minute thriller makers. And hence, instead of simply replicating the story (perfectly suitable for an Indian setting), they decided to infantilise it, added their own mind-boggling details and turned it into the most unintentionally funny film of recent times.
