Bluffmaster! (2005)

Popularity:

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Director:

Rohan Sippy

Writers:

Shridhar Raghavan (story)
Rajat Arora (dialogue)

Release Date:

16 December 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

Come fishing!

Plot:

A conman Roy, gets dumped by his girl-friend. Then he finds out he has a fatal disease. On the verge of death, he resolves to do some good, by helping his apprentice Dittu hoodwink the mobster who hurt his (Dittu's) family.

Plot Keywords:

Fish | Hotel | Breaking The Fourth Wall | Vengeance | Terrace

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Abhishek Bachchan	...	Roy Kapoor
Priyanka Chopra	...	Simran "Simmi" Ahuja
Riteish Deshmukh	...	Aditya "Dittu" Srivastav (as Riteish)
Nana Patekar	...	Chandrakant 'Chandru' Parekh
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Afsaraadil	...	Doorman at Five Star
Tinnu Anand	...	Parimal Bajaj
Hayat Asif	...	Chandru's Man 1
Ram Awana	...	Chandru's Man 2
Rajesh Balwani	...	Pratish Shah
Dipak Chauhan	...	Man at Shooting 1 (as Deepak Chauhan)
Deepak Dadhwal	...	Mr. Ahuja (as Deepak Dharwal)
Vallabh Gada	...	Doctor 2
Dinkar Gavande	...	Barber
Sujoy Ghosh	...	Director in climax
Carol Gracias	...	Dancer in end credit music video
Boman Irani	...	Dr. Bhalerao
Mangala Kenkre	...	Mrs. Ahuja (as Mangal Kenkre)
Ayaz Khan	...	Amit
Zabyn Khan	...	Tina C. Parekh
Anchal Kumar	...	Dancer in end credit music video
Manjeet	...	Man at Shooting 2
Sanjay Mishra	...	Jassi (as Sanjai Mishra)
S. Mody	...	Manager at Simmi's Hotel
Mukuleshwar	...	Jewellery Maker
Satindra Narulla	...	Bajaj's Partner
Nishit	...	Manager at King's Hotel
Supriya Pilgaonkar	...	Mrs. Malhotra
Zaver Prajapati	...	Bouncer
Rajneesh Kumar Punwani	...	Doctor 3
Rohini Ramanathan	...	News Reporter
Hemant Rege	...	Old Man at Sanatorium
Rinita	...	Simmi's Friend Tina
Dinesh Sampat	...	Bellboy at King's Hotel
Ashok Sawant	...	Make Up Man
Shabista	...	Cashier
Hussain Shaikh	...	Omar
Shivangi	...	Girl in King's Hotel
Scherezade Shroff	...	Dancer in end credit music video
Bhupinder Singh	...	Chandru's Man 3
Mahesh Thakur	...	Mr. Malhotra
Ajay Trehan	...	Doctor 1 (as Ajey Trehan)
Piya Trivedi	...	Dancer in end credit music video
Bobby Vatsa	...	Executive
Vishnu	...	Roy's Servant
Ganesh Yadav	...	Wakatkar

Directed by
Rohan Sippy

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Rajat Arora		dialogue (as Rajat Aroraa)
Shridhar Raghavan		story and screenplay

Produced by
Meeta Khanna	....	line producer
Hussain Shaikh	....	executive producer
Ramesh Sippy	....	producer

Original Music by
Vishal Dadlani		(as Vishal Shekhar)
Shekhar Ravjiani		(as Shekhar)

Cinematography by
Himman Dhamija		(director of photography)
Manikandan		(director of photography: end credit music video) (as V. Manikandan)

Film Editing by
Amitabh Shukla
Merzin Tavaria		(editor: end credit music video)

Production Design by
Ayesha Punvani

Costume Design by
Aki Nirula

Makeup Department
Jeevan Borkar	....	makeup artist: Nana Patekar (as Jeevan Madan Borkar)
Suresh Heritwal	....	makeup artist: Tinnu Anand (as Suresh Haritwal)
Nitin Indulkar	....	makeup artist: Riteish (as Nitin)
Mahesh Kumar Jadia	....	makeup artist: Priyanka Chopra (as Mahesh)
Bhalchandra Pawar	....	makeup department head
Rekha	....	hair stylist: Priyanka Chopra
Ashok Sawant	....	makeup artist: Abhishek Bachchan
Serena	....	hair stylist: Riteish
Bahadur Singh	....	makeup artist: Boman Irani
Sunil	....	assistant makeup man
Serina Tixeira	....	makeup designer

Production Management
Mahendra Baba	....	production manager (as Mahendra M. Baba)
Paramjit Pal	....	production manager (as Paramjit Pal aka Pammi)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Natascha Charak	....	second second assistant director
Gaurav Chawla	....	first assistant director
Rukhshida David	....	second assistant director
Neha Kaul	....	additional assistant director
Mitakshara Kumar	....	assistant director: post production

Art Department
Abdul	....	settings boy
Rashid Ahmed	....	carpenter (as Rasheed Ahmed)
B. Ameer	....	settings boy
Meera Dabir	....	set dresser
Rohit Ganju	....	assistant production designer
Jai	....	settings boy
Samridhi Katyal	....	props
Vilas Kolap	....	props
Raju Londhe	....	painter
Vithal Londhe	....	painter
Mayur Mulam	....	construction coordinator
Neha Parikh	....	set dresser
Bharat Surve	....	carpenter
Tiwari	....	painter
Aman Mohan Vidhate	....	construction supervisor
Sameer Vidhate	....	carpenter
Virenda Yudav	....	carpenter (as Virendra Yadav)

Sound Department
Bhagwan	....	sync sound security: Ace Security
Mark Cornish	....	sync sound recordist
Subir Kumar Das	....	re-recording assistant (as Subeer Das)
Anup Dev	....	final mixing engineer
Amrit Pritam Dutta	....	dialogue editor (as Amrit Pritam)
Amrit Pritam Dutta	....	sound editor (as Amrit Pritam)
Justin Jose	....	music mixing assistant
Kamlesh	....	sync sound security: Ace Security
Shajith Koyeri	....	sound designer
Shajith Koyeri	....	sound editor
Vimal Kumar	....	post sound studio supervisor (as Vimal Kumar TK)
Nicole Lazaroff	....	boom operator
Ragneesh Monga	....	location sound assistant (as Rajneesh Monga)
Krishnanunni N.R.	....	adr sync
Prashant Nayar	....	adr supervisor
Bhaskar Pal	....	dolby mastering
Riddhima Pandey	....	post-production sound assistant (as Ridhima Pandey)
Resul Pookutty	....	adr
Resul Pookutty	....	foley recordist
Resul Pookutty	....	supervising sound designer
Prajapati	....	sync sound security: Ace Security
Abin Rajan	....	foley editor
Bhaskar Roy	....	re-recording assistant
Sanal	....	music mixing assistant
Sreejesh	....	sound editor
Pramod Thomas	....	surround music mixing
Phool Babu Yadav	....	studio assistant

Visual Effects by
Yassir Abbas	....	promos offline: Prime Focus team
Paresh Acharya	....	digital intermediate coordinator: Prime Focus team
Neeraj Bhatt	....	assistant Fire artist: Prime Focus Team
Samuel Bokka	....	offline editor: Prime Focus team
Brahmadev	....	assistant Fire artist: Prime Focus Team
Parminder Singh Chadda	....	digital intermediate supervisor: Prime Focus team
Arup Chakravarty	....	digital intermediate recording technician: Prime Focus team
Adolf D'Souza	....	promos online: Prime Focus team
Brownil Dcunah	....	offline editor: Prime Focus team
Aditya Desai	....	graphics: Prime Focus team
Rohan Desai	....	digital intermediate supervisor: Prime Focus team
Tushar Desai	....	graphics supervisor: Prime Focus team
Nirmal Gala	....	digital intermediate coordinator: Prime Focus team
Sandesh Gawali	....	graphics: Prime Focus team
Ranganath Gowda	....	data management: Prime Focus team
Shashi Gowda	....	data management: Prime Focus team
Mukesh Gurnani	....	digital intermediate scanner: Prime Focus team
Rebecca Jaweed	....	graphics: Prime Focus team
Sekar Jeyson	....	data management: Prime Focus team
Xavier Joseph	....	Fire artist: Prime Focus Team
Vishal Kapoor	....	promos online: Prime Focus team
Vishrut Manseta	....	graphics: Prime Focus team
Abhishek Mishra	....	graphics: Prime Focus team
Manish Pal	....	assistant Fire artist: Prime Focus Team
Prasad Patel	....	compositor
Bharat Patil	....	digital compositor
Bharat Patil	....	graphics: Prime Focus team
Ranjeet Pawar	....	digital intermediate scanner: Prime Focus team
Susheel Peris	....	Fire artist: Prime Focus Team
Susheel Peris	....	digital compositor
Santosh Prajapati	....	Fire artist: Prime Focus Team
Reupal D. Rawal	....	digital compositor
Samanth	....	promos offline: Prime Focus team
Kaushal Shah	....	digital compositor
Swapnil Shelar	....	graphics: Prime Focus team
Navin Shetty	....	digital intermediate colorist: Prime Focus team
Ritesh Shetty	....	digital intermediate recording technician: Prime Focus team
Vijay Shilwant	....	data management: Prime Focus team
Raghvendra Shrivastava	....	digital artist
Dinesh Singh	....	graphics: Prime Focus team
Dinesh Solanki	....	graphics: Prime Focus
Yatin Tamhane	....	senior digital compositor
Merzin Tavaria	....	visual effects supervisor: Prime Focus team
Prashant Thakur	....	graphics: Prime Focus team
Griboshin V.C.	....	visual effects coordinator: Prime Focus team
Jitendra Vaghani	....	graphics: Prime Focus team

Stunts
Ejaz Gulab	....	action assistant (as Ejaz Shaikh Gulab)
Habib	....	stunt performer
Javed	....	action assistant
Abbas Ali Moghul	....	action stunts
Mehmood Mogul	....	stunt performer
Murtuzha	....	stunt performer (as Murtuza)
Abdul Salam	....	action assistant
Munna Sattar	....	stunt performer (as Munna)
Subhan	....	stunt performer

Camera and Electrical Department
Mehmood Ali	....	lighting technician (as Mahemood Ali)
Allaudin	....	electrician (as Allaudin Ali)
Srinivas Chandran	....	additional focus puller
Chendu	....	spot boy
Balaram Dawande	....	electrician (as Balaram Davande)
Hetal Dedhia	....	swing man
Kumar C. Dev	....	jimmy jib operator
Anil Devaiah	....	camera assistant (as Anil Deviah)
Piyush Ghosh	....	jimmy jib operator
Ravi Gial	....	light boy
Ashok Gupta	....	spot boy
Abdul Hamid Shaikh	....	chief camera assistant (as Abdul Hameed Shaikh)
Abdul Hamid Shaikh	....	gaffer (as Abdul Hameed Shaikh)
Bharat Jadhav	....	lighting technician
Arvind Kannabiran	....	additional cinematographer
Zafar Kashim	....	lighting technician (as Jaffar Kasim)
Narayan Kittu	....	electrician
Raghu Mandal	....	spot boy (as Mandal)
Indraj Marwari	....	electrician (as Indraj Marwadi)
Prakash Mohapatra	....	jimmy jib operator
Nagraj	....	jimmy jib operator
Nanu	....	spot boy
Pandey	....	electrician (as Arvind Pandey)
Vinayak Parab	....	electrician
Ram	....	spot boy
Kamalakar Rao	....	camera equipment supplier (as Kamalakar Rao)
Nitin Rao	....	steadicam operator
Ramoji Rao	....	camera equipment supplier (Hyderabad) (as Ramoji Rao)
Narsimha Reddy	....	chief camera assistant
Shanker Reddy	....	key grip (as Shankar Reddy)
Subhash Segwan	....	electrician (as Subhash Sigwan)
Hafiz Shah	....	electrician
Om Prakash Sitaara	....	light boy
Suresh	....	spot boy
Vishnu Thapa	....	spot boy
Basu Nityanand Viswas	....	electrician (as Varun Nityand Vishwas)
Yammi	....	spot boy

Casting Department
Trupti Karoor	....	secondary casting
Karan Kashyap	....	secondary casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Jaffer Ali	....	dressman (as Jaffar Ali)
Ashok	....	dressman
Bhaskar	....	wardrobe in charge (as Jaya Bhaskar)
Bilaal	....	dressman
Suhani Kanwar	....	secondary costumes
Laxman	....	wardrobe in charge
Mahesh	....	dressman
Gopika Malkan	....	wardrobe assistant
Kamlesh Mistry	....	wardrobe assistant
Nitin	....	dressman

Editorial Department
Yasir Abbas	....	assistant editor: end credit music video
Rohan Desai	....	digital intermediate supervisor
Sandesh Kamath	....	negative cutter (as Sandesh Kamat)
Sanjay Sharma	....	associate editor
Sanjay Sharma	....	associate editor

Music Department
Manzoor Ali	....	playback singer
Sebastian Andrade	....	additional programming: background score
Arash	....	playback singer
Abhishek Arora	....	additional programming: background score
Abhishek Bachchan	....	playback singer
Chandrakant	....	musician: mandolin
Sunidhi Chauhan	....	playback singer
Chester	....	engineer: background score
Chetan	....	playback singer
Kevin D'Souza	....	engineer: background score
Sanjay Divecha	....	musician: nylon guitar
Geeta Dutt	....	playback singer
Saira Hussain	....	playback singer
Jeetu	....	musician: violins
Jo	....	musician: trumpet
Kavita Khullar	....	music consultant
Kishore Kumar	....	playback singer: "Do Aur Do Paanch"
Naveen Kumar	....	musician: flute
Micu	....	engineer: background score
Mitra	....	musician: accordian
Vinayak Netke	....	musician: tabla
Petra	....	musician: piano
Sameeruddin	....	musical director
Sameeruddin	....	musician: bass
Shamir Tandon	....	music consultant
Tyrow We	....	musician: guitars
Yarn	....	playback singer

Transportation Department
Anand	....	driver
Bala	....	driver
Balan	....	driver
Rasool Bhai	....	vehicle supplier
Raju Gouda	....	driver: Abhishek Bachchan (as Raju Gowda)
Kaushal	....	driver
Mac	....	driver: Priyanka Chopra
Manjunath	....	driver: Abhishek Bachchan
Mehtaab	....	driver
Mustafa	....	driver
Raju	....	driver
Tanveer	....	vehicle supplier
Thapa	....	driver: Tinnu Anand
Vardhman	....	driver: Nana Patekar
Basvraj Vibhute	....	driver: Riteish
Zakaria	....	driver: Boman Irani

Other crew
Ajay	....	office boy
Ajju	....	location manager
Akshay	....	behind-the-scenes footage
Abdul Aziz Amlani	....	equipment supplier
Babu	....	office boy
Anil Bhatt	....	assistant
Mohan Bhogle	....	location assistant
Chaitanya	....	publicity design
Nausheen D'Souza	....	office coordinator
Stanley D'Souza	....	production coordinator
R. Dee	....	dancer
John Fernandes	....	location manager (as John A. Fernandes)
Gajendra	....	office boy
Alvina Gonsalves	....	assistant choreographer
Caesar Gonsalves	....	choreographer
Parull Gossain	....	public relations officer
Harpreet Kaur Gujral	....	assistant choreographer (as Sonali Harpreet Kaur Gujral)
Himanshu	....	model coordinator
Hitesh	....	assistant choreographer
Sanjay Kambi	....	accountant
Deepak Kapadia	....	location coordinator
Trupti Karoor	....	pa operator
Karan Kashyap	....	script supervisor
Akbar Khan	....	production controller
Amjad Khan	....	location assistant
Rishi Khiani	....	website design: Urban Media
Kavita Khullar	....	marketing consultant
Yogesh Mane	....	assistant
Bosco Martis	....	choreographer (as Bosco)
Mohan	....	personal assistant: Boman Irani
Ashni Parikh	....	legal consultant
Sangeeta Pawar	....	office coordinator
Sachin	....	office coordinator
Sandeep	....	office boy (as Sandip)
Rajnikant V. Shah	....	financial consultant
Raja Mohammed Shaikh	....	equipment supplier
Shobha	....	publicity design
Sheena Sippy	....	publicity stills
Shamir Tandon	....	marketing consultant
Ravindra Zar	....	censor public relations officer

Thanks
Manoj Desai	....	acknowledgment
Tigmanshu Dhulia	....	acknowledgment
Sanjay Dutt	....	special thanks
Kaveri Khullar	....	acknowledgment
Vishal Patil	....	acknowledgment
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan	....	special thanks (as Aishwarya Rai)
Rajkumar Santoshi	....	acknowledgment (as Raj Kumar Santoshi)
Manmohan Shetty	....	special thanks
Shamir Tandon	....	acknowledgment

Production Companies

• Entertainment One Pvt. Ltd. (as One Entertainment)
• R.S. Entertainment (as Ramesh Sippy Entertainment)
• UTV Motion Pictures

Distributors

• UTV Motion Pictures (2005) (India) (theatrical) (released by)
• UTV Communications (UK) Ltd. (2005) (UK) (theatrical)

Special Effects

• Prime Focus (digital grading)
• Prime Focus (digital intermediate and visual effects)

Other Companies

• A.W. Planks  set materials supplied by
• Ace Security  sync sound security
• Aditya Entertainment Media  equipment supplier
• Adlabs Films  processed at (as Adlabs Films Ltd.)
• Alfa Decorators  art effects
• Amjad Auto Garage  vehicle supplier
• Amrit & Rajiv Co.  junior artiste supplier (as Amrit Rajiv & Co.)
• Aradhana Sound Services  foley at (as Aradhana Sound Service)
• Art House  set materials supplied by
• Aziz Wall Paper  art effects (as Aziz Wallpaper)
• Beauty Art Carpets  set materials supplied by
• Brihan Mumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking  vehicle supplier (as B.E.S.T. Bus)
• Channel V  media partners
• Cine Effects  equipment supplier
• Cinnamon  music co-ordination
• Citibank  banker (as Citibank: Khar Branch)
• Dainik Jagran  media partners
• Dance Factory  dancers supplied by
• Devyani Travels  vehicle supplier
• EMI Music  acknowledgment
• EMI Music  marketing consultant
• EMI Music  music consultant
• Evergreen Decorators  set materials supplied by
• Excellency  vehicle supplier
• Fame Cinemas  acknowledgment
• Famous Cine Laboratories & Studios  magnum dolly (as Famous Studios)
• Fireflys Post Studio  sound-design studio
• G.M. Dress  equipment supplier
• Good Earth  decor
• Highlight  camera equipment
• Hollywood  camera equipment
• House of Art  set materials supplied by
• IMImobile  media partners
• Imtiaz Paint  set materials supplied by
• Indiatimes  media partners
• Kodak India  film stock
• Kundan Cutlery Stores  set materials supplied by (as Kundan Cutlery)
• Lakdawala's Sound City  mixed at (as Lakdawalas Sound City)
• Laxmi Glass  set materials supplied by
• Lights & Grips  light equipment (as Lights & Grips : Mulchand)
• M.M. Woods  set materials supplied by (as M.M. Wood&Pvt. Ltd.)
• Manoj Car Hire  vehicle supplier
• Modern Furniture  set materials supplied by
• Natraj Canteen  caterer
• New Modern Furnitures  set materials supplied by (as New Modern)
• Nilkanth Tours & Travels (I)  vehicle supplier (as Neelkanth Tours & Travels)
• Nirmal Singh and Company  equipment supplier (as Nirmal Singh & Sons)
• Patel Dresswala  equipment supplier (as Patel dress)
• Prime Focus  digital grading & visual effects
• Q-Lab  adr at
• Q-lab  surround music mixing at
• R.P. Enterprises  set materials supplied by
• Radio City 91 FM  media partners
• Raju Disco Decorators  equipment supplier
• Ravi Disco Lights  equipment supplier
• Red Chillies Entertainment  camera equipment (as Red Chillies)
• Red Chillies Entertainment  edited at (as Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.)
• Sahayog Traders  set materials supplied by (as Sahyog Trader)
• Sandhu Roadways  vehicle supplier
• Saregama  soundtrack
• Satpal Singh & Sons  equipment supplier (as Satpla Singh & Sons)
• Shah Tempo  vehicle supplier
• Sippy Films  acknowledgment
• Sound City  dolby digital mixing
• Standard Chartered Bank  banker
• Star Gold  media partners
• Style M  publicity design
• Sweet Home  set materials supplied by
• Urban Media  website design
• Vamshi Enterprises  cranes supplied by
• Verma Combines  equipment supplier
• Words India  subtitle spotting
• Zero Gravity Arclights and Films Pvt. Ltd.  equipment supplier (as Zero Gravity)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

137 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

India:UA | Malaysia:U | UK:12A

Filming Locations:

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Company:

Entertainment One Pvt. Ltd.

Trivia:

Abhishek Bachchan sang the song "Right Here Right Now" alongside Sunidhi Chauhan.

Quotes:

[At the top of a skyscraper, Roy embraces Simmi for what he thinks to be the last time... ]
Chandru:That's the problem with you youngsters - you start anywhere not caring about the people around you.

Movie Connections:

References Do Aur Do Paanch (1980)

Soundtrack:

Dard

A fun film with some good tunes which will get your feet tapping.

Roy Kapoor (Bachchan) is a career conman who excels in running the "perfect scam". He's in love with Simmi (Chopra) who he's been dating for 6 months and they're getting engaged. Unfortunately at their lavish engagement party, one of his most recent cons comes back to bite him on the proverbial when the victim turns out to be Simmi's uncle! Simmi had no idea her fiancé was a conman (she thought he was a stockbroker) and BOOM! The engagement is broken off and Simmi tells Roy that she wants nothing more to do with him.

Six months later, a forlorn Roy still wanders around like a lovesick puppy and comes across Dittu (Deshmukh) another conman but rather new to the game who's pulling off a con with a doctor (Irani). Dittu and colleague drop a banger and Dittu grabs the doctor and he falls to the floor thinking he's been shot, Dittu calls an "ambulance" but in reality they're out to steal whatever they can from the doctor. Roy "rescues" the doctor and in return the doctor gives him some well meaning advice, and in the process they discover that Roy has a brain tumour and only has 3 months to live. Simmi gets engaged to another man, Dittu keeps hounding Roy to mentor him as he wants to be as good at conning people as Roy for been for so many years and he wants to avenge his father's downfall at the hands of another conman Chandru (Patekar), who is somewhat of a gangster too.

The cons at the start and climax of the film were pretty brilliant and you really don't see the end one coming, so it is quite a surprise. I think it was very cleverly done but I'm guessing there's a Hollywood film out there with a similar storyline which has been copied because I'm pretty sure Bollywood didn't come up with this idea! If I'm doing Bollywood an injustice in that comment then I'd be the first to hold up my hand and admit I made a mistake.

The film itself is reminiscent of the Michael Douglas starrer The Game but don't be fooled into thinking it's a direct copy... It isn't!

All in all Bluffmaster gets a high 9 out of 10 from me. I'd recommend fans of comedy and/or con capers give this a watch. It's a slick fast-paced film with lots of eye candy for both the male and female audience with some good laughs thrown in along the way.