Director
Abbas-Mustan's
upcoming
movie
Players,
which
features
Abhishek
Bachchan,
Bipasha
Basu,
Bobby
Deol,
Sonam
Kapoor
and
Neil
Nitin
Mukesh
in
the
leads,
is
releasing
on
January
6,
2012.
The
much-awaited
action
thriller
was
to
hit
the
screens
on
9
December
with
Agent
Vinod
and
Ladies
vs
Ricky
Bahl,
but
the
film
has
now
been
pushed
to
early
January
in
2012.
Bollywood
film
Players
is
an
official
remake
of
the
Hollywood
crime
thriller
The
Italian
Job,
which
revolves
around
the
story
of
six
thieves,
who
plan
to
pull
off
the
heist
of
their
lives
by
creating
Los
Angeles'
largest
ever
traffic
jam.
On
his
Twitter
page,
Abhishek
Bachchan
wrote,
“Players
releases
on
the
6th
of
January
2012."
However,
the
filming
of
Players
started
on
November
9,
2010
and
has
been
shot
throughout
India,
New
Zealand
and
Russia.
The
shooting
took
place
in
Goa,
New
Zealand's
Wellington
and
Auckland
earlier
in
2011,
and
a
long
schedule
was
also
shot
in
Siberia,
St
Petersburg
and
other
locations
in
Russia.
It
also
stars
Omi
Vaidya
and
Sikander
Kher
in
pivotal
roles.