-16TH December 2005.
-Nimish Inamdar
Dir: Rohan Sippy
Cast: Abhishek Bachhan, Riteish Deshmukh, Priyanka Chopra, Nana Patekar, Boman Irani.
RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW.
The person who can plot a scene, produce it, direct it and act in it, and make a lot of easy money by goofing someone or Bluffing someone, is a Bluffmaster. And in our very own Abhishek Bachhan playing Roy Kapoor plays the bluffmaster in the movie “Bluffmaster”.
“The city of Mumbai is like an ocean, where various types of fishes swim in their own sense.” Says Roy Kapoor, to Aditya Shrivastav a.k.a. Dittu (played by Rietesh Deshmukh), while both of them are sitting in a restaurant, as the former is teaching the later the art of goofing people.
“You need to watch and decide which fish suits you, as per your requirements, skills, and attitude to face dangers.” Dittu listens keenly to the lessons from the Bluffmaster.
Soon they become teammates and decide to goof up people together. Dittu doesn’t approve of Roy’s devoted love for his ex-fiancée, Simmi Ahuja (played by Priyanka Chopra) who breaks
their engagement after she finds out that Roy is a con man. In this scenario, Roy bumps across Dr. Bhalerao (Boman Irani), and according to his diagnosis Roy’s brain tumor wont let him live for more than three months. Now, Roy sets his life’s motive for the next three months, and that is to help Dittu take his revenge against Chandrakant Parekh (played by Nana Patekar), a big time con man who has goofed up many people to make money. Chandru, the Bluffmaster of all had also once goofed up Dittu’s father, and Roy along with Dttu is all set to take over him. Now comes the climax where we experience a serious U-Turn. Who is the Bluffmaster of all? Check out the movie for that.
With a good climax (for a change) the story line of the movie looks really good. But the director Rohan Sippy has put us through a lot of tyranny for the same. Many unwanted melodramatic scenes, dragged up scenes, few unwanted songs really make you feel like getting up from the seat. But the wait to watch the climax is worthwhile.
After movies with intelligent humor, like Khel (1992), Catch Me if you can (2002) etc all talking about con people one would expect the film Bluffmaster, whose theme revolve around the word ‘con’, to be on similar lines. But the film has not used the potential it could have reached with respect to comedy.
The movie gets really good in second half with Nana and his rib tickling script. Even Abhishek, Riteish, Priyanka and Boman have done pretty good job. I feel that director Rohan Sippy could have done much better with the film.
To sum up the movie is strictly OK, and something we can’t see more than once.
Rating: ***
