In 2011, Game almost said Khela Shesh for Abhishek Bachchan. On Wahiyat Wednesday

Game, directed by Abhinay Deo, almost announced ‘Khela Shesh’ for Abhishek Bachchan, who was swimming in a sea of flops at the time. As the film turns 10 on April 1, we decode why it’s nothing more than a mess of cliches, characters and twists.

In the run-up to the make-or-break Bengal election, we got an interesting slogan duet TMC’s Khela Hobe vs BJP’s Khela Shesh. While the former means ‘game on’, the latter means ‘game over’. As Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi challenge one another in their campaigns, we find relevance of Khela Shesh in Abhishek Bachchan’s career graph who was swimming in a sea of flops at the time. Game promised a slick espionage-thriller-meets-murder-mystery, but what the audience got was a formula flick driven by age-old cliches. The film also starred Boman Irani, Jimmy Sheirgill, Shahana Goswami, Gauahar Khan, Anupam Kher, Sarah Jane Dias and Kangana Ranaut, among others. As the film turns 10 on April 1, we tell you why Game is a frustrating whodunit story, where, in the end, there are no winners. But the viewers sure lose more than two hours of their lives, quite painfully.