Bluffmaster is a Bollywood movie released on 16 December 2005, starring Abhishek Bachchan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Priyanka Chopra, Boman Irani and Nana Patekar. The plot is largely inspired by the 2004 Hollywood movie Criminal with John C. Reilly and Diego Luna, but has been appropriately Indianized. Criminal was based upon the award winning Argentinian film Nine Queens. The film was directed by Rohan Sippy, the son of Ramesh Sippy. This is his second directorial venture following his film Kuch Naa Kaho. The role played by Priyanka Chopra was originally given to Aishwarya Rai, but she was dropped from the film. Summary Roy (played by Abhishek Bachchan) is a professional conman (bluffmaster in Indian English), who is a master of his dubious "art." He is in love with the honest and true "Simmi" (played by Priyanka Chopra). When they are about to get engaged, Simmi finds out that Roy is a conma