Players (film)

Players
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Abbas-Mustan
Produced by	Pappu Vaswani Mohammed Burmawala Abbas-Mustan Viacom 18
Written by	Sudip Sharma (Dialogue)
Screenplay by	Troy Kennedy Martin (Original Screenplay) Donna Powers Wayne Powers (1st Screenplay Adapted) Rohit Jugraj Sudip Sharma (2nd Screenplay Adapted)
Story by	Troy Kennedy Martin (Original Story) Nikhat Bhatty Bhaskar Hazarika (Story Adapted)
Based on	The Italian Job by Troy Kennedy Martin
Starring	Abhishek Bachchan Bipasha Basu Sonam Kapoor Neil Nitin Mukesh Bobby Deol Sikandar Kher Omi Vaidya
Music by	Songs: Pritam Background Score: Sandeep Shirodkar
Cinematography	Ravi Yadav
Edited by	Hussain Burmawala
Production company	Burmawala Partners
Distributed by	Viacom 18
Release date	4 January 2012 (2012-01-04) (Dubai) 5 January 2012 (2012-01-05) (Kuwait) 6 January 2012 (2012-01-06) (London and worldwide)
Running time	163 minutes
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹35 crore (US$5.2 million)
Box office	₹52 crore (US$7.7 million)

Players is a 2012 Indian action heist film directed by duo Abbas and Mustan Burmawalla and jointly produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures and Burmawala Partners. The film features an ensemble cast of Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Sonam Kapoor, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Bobby Deol, Sikandar Kher and Omi Vaidya in the lead roles, while Aftab Shivdasani appears in a cameo. The theatrical trailer premiered on 3 November 2011, and the film was released on 6 January 2012. It is an official remake of the 2003 Hollywood blockbuster, The Italian Job, which itself is a remake of the 1969 British caper film, of the same name.Players employs the same plot as the 2003 version, while making the characters and incidents completely different.

The story follows a team of players, consisting of a con-man, an automobile expert who doubles up as a seductress, an illusionist, an explosives expert, an expert hacker and an actor turned prosthetic makeup artist, who plan to steal gold worth ₹100 billion (US$1.5 billion) from a moving train. During the robbery they are double crossed by members of their own team.