UAE and Fiji. It was most successful in New Zealand where it had the largest cinematic release of an Indian film in the country. 11 prints were distributed to two of New Zealand's biggest cinema chains, Event and Hoyts. Players exceeded the previous record held by Don 2 (2011), which was released two weeks earlier with nine prints. Soundtrack The official soundtrack was composed and directed by Pritam and the background score was composed by Sandeep Shirodkar. The lyrics were written by Ashish Pandit. The music rights were sold to T-Series and released on 30 November 2011. The main track used in the teaser and trailer is "Anti You" from Blue Stahli's eponymous album Blue Stahli. Sandeep Shirodkar composed the film score. Track listing Reception The soundtrack album received positive to mixed reviews. Joginder Tuteja of Bollywood Hungama gave it a rating of 3.5 out of 5 and wrote, "'Players' delivers what one expected from it. The need of the situation was to have a racy score that complements the fast paced story telling of Abbas-Mustan. The song which has the most potential is 'Dil Ye Bekarar Kyun Hai', others would work as instant coffee that would keep the momentum up for the film's narrative". Satyajit from Glamsham gave it 3 out of 5 and said, "Players, a stylish packed hi-voltage action thriller has cool and reasonably good listening soundtrack to its credit. As anticipated from its huge expectations, it proves to be an above average affair but lacks the zing and zeal of being 'spectacular' or 'earth-shattering' like the composer's previous works in this genre (Dhoom, Dhoom 2 and Race), which have been big successes in their respective years of release". Vanessa Barnes of Bolly Spice awarded it 2.5 out of 5 and wrote, "Pritam has created exactly the type of soundtrack to perfectly fit and complement the material onscreen. I think that in conjunction with visuals, some of which we’ve already had a taste of in the promising, well-received trailer – the songs will be effective. The bad news? I think as a whole, listened to on its own, the album is pretty average – and if you don't like auto-tune, or excessive remixes, steer well clear". Sukanya Verma from Rediff.com also gave the album 2.5 out of 5 stars and said, "After four very popular albums this year, Ready, Bodyguard, Dum Maaro Dum and Mausam, Pritam dishes