Players

Players is a 2012 Indian heist action thriller film directed by the duo Abbas–Mustan and jointly produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures and Burmawala Partners. The film features an ensemble cast of Abhishek Bachchan, Bobby Deol, Vinod Khanna, Sonam Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Sikandar Kher, and Omi Vaidya 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 Italian Job, and is the second remake of the 1969 British film after the the 2003 American remake of the same name. Players employs the same plot as the 2003 version, while making the characters and incidents completely different.