---
title: 'Players (2012)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla'
released: '2012-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 140
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Action'
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'India'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/players-2012'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1784589/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Players (2012)

2012 · 140 min · Drama, Action, Thriller · India

Original title: प्लेयर्स

## Synopsis

Players is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by the duo Abbas–Mustan and jointly produced by Viacom18 Motion Pictures and Burmawala Partners. The film features an ensemble cast of Vinod Khanna, Abhishek Bachchan, Bobby Deol, 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 2003 American remake of the same name. Players employs the same plot as the 2003 version, while making the characters and incidents completely different.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla](https://cinepixo.com/people/abbas-alibhai-burmawalla), [Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla](https://cinepixo.com/people/mastan-alibhai-burmawalla)
- **Screenplay:** [Rohit Jugraj Chauhan](https://cinepixo.com/people/rohit-jugraj-chauhan)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Pritam Chakraborty](https://cinepixo.com/people/pritam-chakraborty)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ravi Yadav](https://cinepixo.com/people/ravi-yadav)

## Cast

- [Johnny Lever](https://cinepixo.com/people/johnny-lever)
- [Bipasha Basu](https://cinepixo.com/people/bipasha-basu)
- [Sikandar Kher](https://cinepixo.com/people/sikandar-kher)
- [Aftab Shivdasani](https://cinepixo.com/people/aftab-shivdasani)
- [Bobby Deol](https://cinepixo.com/people/bobby-deol)
- [Abhishek Bachchan](https://cinepixo.com/people/abhishek-bachchan)
- [Sonam Kapoor](https://cinepixo.com/people/sonam-kapoor)
- [Shweta Bhardwaj](https://cinepixo.com/people/shweta-bhardwaj)
- [Omi Vaidya](https://cinepixo.com/people/omi-vaidya)
- [Vinod Khanna](https://cinepixo.com/people/vinod-khanna)
- [Neil Nitin Mukesh](https://cinepixo.com/people/neil-nitin-mukesh)

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