Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Good concept, poorly executed.

Expected more

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

When will Indian movie makers learn to give up copying foreign plots?? This is a lift of "Nine Queens" an excellent Latino film I had seen some years back. I guess the writer / director had one thing in mind "how to get a 1:30 Hr film to be a 2:10 Hr film", for that they arbitrarily threw in songs and boring plots and scenes. Boman for e.g. when explaining to Abhishek to live life the fullest is rather a drag. Everything from story, theme and camera movement are copied and does not suit the movie or the actors at all. I hear this movie is a box office success - ah well that goes to show what formula works for Indian cinema. This is only going to prompt other Indian directors and producers to attempt copies. So when Indian cinema takes 1 step forward (Rang De Basante) it is also thrown back 10 steps by movie attempt such as this one!

Instead of spending all their budget on Priyanka Chopra's wardrobe, they should have invested it in developing the script further, or at least do justice to the many Hollywood films they ripped off to make this FLUFF-master!Abhishek Bachchan stars here as Roy, the ultimate Bluffmater (Bollyspeak for Con man or swindler), he can con his way out or into any situation but he does one too many when he cons a man picking up bounty money and the man later shows up at his (Roy's) wedding engagement to Priyanka Chopra's character. The wedding is off when the bride's family finds out about the nature of Roy profession and it's downhill from there. Roy tries to win his lover back but to no apparent avail. To add insult to injury, he is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and given three months to live. Or is he?The only person worth watching in this film is Nana Patekar who never fails to deliver, even in a film as dreary and as over-hyped as this one! I only saw this film because of Abhi and the hit song Right here right now, and even Abhi wasn't enough to help me forget how mediocre the whole ride was. And to think that Priyanka Chopra bragged about her performance in this film. "For every Umrao Jaan I have lost, I have gained a Bluffmaster" No you haven't Chicka! No you haven't!

Bluffmaster, where to start. Ah yes, Bluffmaster is a simple movie about a man who wants to be everything, and is a master of bluffing (tricking) others. Which means he is a fisherman who can reel in any type of fish. Of course in every Bollywood movie there is a love storyline involved too. Roy (Abhishek Bachchan) aka the Bluffmaster of the movie had a lover in the beginning of the movie, Simmi (Priyanka Chopra). Until one day Roy's relationship with her screws up because of his own undoing. While Roy is now a single, and bluffing one after the next, he meets Aditya "Dittu" (Ritesh Deshmukh) a youth who is also bluffing others. When Roy meets Dittu, Dittu sees through Roy as a brilliant bluffmaster, and becomes some sort of protégé to Roy. Abhishek, Priyanka, Ritesh, and Nana Patekar all do a fantastic job acting in this movie no doubt. Bluffmaster also features two songs that were actually sung by Abhishek himself. If I am correct the songs were the "Bluffmaster" theme, and "Right Here Right Now". Other than those two songs, "Bure Bure (Boro Boro)" was indeed a catchy club song my personal favorite of this movie. Other than the acting and songs. I'm sorry I have to say, but the ending was just dreadful. The ending was just too much, and far-fetched which really brought the movie down to a lower score. If it weren't for the ending, I would've given this movie a 9 or higher instead of an 8.0 Overall Bluffmaster is still a great movie, but the storyline really needs to be fixed around.

Once again it all boils down to expectations. I went in expecting a 5 and came out with a 5. The movie was just too predictable. One other thing that i think all bollywood movies suffer from is this western hangover. The movie has toooo much English to much COOL, and too much style. That makes it very difficult to identify with the characters, the plot holes are numerous, but are excusable in this sort of movie. by far the best and most lovable part of the movie is nana patekar who steals the show. even ritesh deshmukh is decent and i see a bright future for him as a second actor. abhishek bachan is victim of his own stardom and i constantly got the feeling that they spent to much time making him cool and stylish and using English dialogues (honestly which people who sit in the stall in India understands all that?) and forgot that there also is the story. Also this movie suffers from the all destroying factor of the predictable ending and gutless one at that ( just by making the ending with some more B*&^s they could have improved the movie by 2 stars). But the movie is refreshing and original concept and the soundtrack and nana patekar make the movie worth seeing once.