Game Over!

By now, we all know that Game is a stylized thriller featuring an ensemble B List cast, but deep down, we want to give it a shot for Abhishek’s sake and because it has Farhan Akthar’s name on it. Having seen Game, let me also assure you that though technically excellent, it is badly scripted and extremely amateurish in its narrative. 

As a murder mystery, it leaves a lot of unanswered questions in the end, especially one that stays with you - "Why did Abhishek Bachchan do a movie like Game?" 
The movie is a murder mystery, not of business baron Kabir Malhotra(Anupam Kher) but, of Abhishek Bachchan, the actor. Game has an uncanny resemblance to Abhishek’s own acting career, where you are always at your wits end thinking was this suicide or murder? 
As an avid crime reader myself, I decided to put the possible pieces together that can help me try and solve this puzzle of what may have prompted Abhishek to do this film-

Habit.  Abhishek has made it such a habit that he can only do bad films now.

Money. Amitabh and Aishwarya are no longer giving him pocket money at home

Dialogues. Farhan Akthar himself wrote them so may be some good lines? The problem is that the best dialogues in the movie are in Thai and it’s a pity we couldn’t understand it

Jimmy Shergil. The only other person who will come out of this movie looking worse is Jimmy Shergil. Incidentally Jimmy plays a Bollywood star trying to resurrect his career.

Exercise. I have never seen a hero jog so much in any film. This role gave him an opportunity to exercise and possibly lose weight for his next Dum Maaro Dum

Competition at Prateeksha. If Abhishek hadn’t done it Amitabh would have.

Buy 1 Get 1 free. By doing this movie he gets Luke Kenny’s role in Rock On 2

Bad Music. Unlike all his other movies, Abhishek decided that this time around he will be better than the music in his film.

I still haven’t been able to solve this crime and between then and now other mysteries have come up- India has won the world cup, FALTU has made Game look like a classic and Dhoni has shaved his head. But I am inclined to think this is a suicide, though murder can still not be ruled out, or perhaps an evil twin? 

Actually everyone associated with this movie should contemplate murder. The only person who has any right to feel good about the film is Kangana Ranaut, as she gets to display her knowledge of English beyond the curt 'basterd' that she is known for.