HOME | SCOOP!! & NEWS | BOLLYWOOD Bluffmaster – Review16th Dec 2005 22.40 IST By N. K. Deoshi Don’t expect a laugh riot from Rohan Sippy’s movie Bluffmaster . However, the film does entertain. The movie stars Abhishek Bachchan , Ritesh Deshmukh , Priyanka Chopra , Nana Patekar and Boman Irani . 
‘Bluffmaster’ begins excellently. The very first sequence sets the movie’s pace. But the story derails whenever the movie goes onto the romantic track involving the lovesick bluffmaster repeatedly approaching his ladylove. The movie begins with a film producer (Tinu Anand) getting conned by Roy (Abhishek Bachchan), a street-savvy bluffmaster who knows many a trick in the con game. The only thing Roy doesn’t bluff is his romance for Simi (Priyanka Chopra). On his engagement day with Simi, Roy’s reality is exposed in front of her entire family. The engagement is called off and Roy is left pining for Simi’s love. In the meantime, Roy meets another connie. This junior connie, name Dittu (Ritesh Deshmukh), tries unsuccessfully to bluff Roy. He later becomes Roy’s chela. While Roy is trying to regain Simi’s love, he comes to know a shocking truth. He has brain tumor. His doctor, Dr. Bhalerao (Boman Irani), says he has just three months left to live. Roy decides to live his remaining life to the fullest. He wants to pull off one last big con on Chandru Parekh (Nana Patekar), who made Dittu’s father a pauper after conning the old man. Roy and Dittu manage to dupe Chandru of his crores. But Chandru won’t go down so easily. He abducts Simi and demands Roy to return the money to save the girl. Roy, who knows his eventual fate is to die, faces Chandru’s gun...What follows next will certainly take you by surprise. The plot of ‘Bluffmaster’ walks an uncertain path. It delves a little on comedy, a little on romance and a bit on the protagonist’s impending tragedy (which eventually never comes). The end of the movie, its real redeeming factor, is connected with the point from where it starts. And by the time the end credits roll, the story comes full circle. Of course, the protagonist is now a transformed man. Ritesh Deshmukh adds some real good moments of fun here and there. Nana Patekar comes and steals the show in the second half. Not much humour is forthcoming from Abhishek Bachchan, but then, he is playing a lovesick bluffmaster who has just a few months of life left to live. Frankly, Abhishek’s character in the movie should have been better chiseled out. Roy is a somber bluffmaster who reacts with repulsion to the comedy going around him. Add to it Abhishek’s own serenity that lends a further serious look to the character. Priyanka Chopra enacts her part well, but her character has little direct significance to the story except the fact that she happens to be Abhi’s ladylove. In a nutshell, Rohan Sippy offers a mixed package in ‘Bluffmaster’. The movie’s plot meanders between romance and comedy. Only two bluffs in the movie are intelligently conceived. The first one comes at the beginning, the other at the very end. No two thoughts, the end of this movie redeems all its shortcomings. This is the reason enough to see ‘Bluffmaster’ once. Related Bluffmaster Abhishek Bachchan Ritesh Deshmukh Priyanka Chopra Nana Patekar Boman Irani Rohan Sippy |
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