Teen Patti movie review

Bollywood movie Teen Patti

“Teen Patti” is a Bollywood movie released in 2010. It stars Amitabh Bachchan, Ben Kingsley, R. Madhavan, and Shraddha Kapoor, among others. The film revolves around the concept of a mathematical genius who develops a mathematical model for playing Teen Patti, a gambling card game. The story explores the consequences that arise when the game is played for high stakes and the protagonist becomes entangled in a web of greed, deception, and moral dilemmas.

IMDB Teen Patti Storyline

Perci Trachtenberg, widely regarded as the world’s greatest living mathematician, meets Venkat, a reclusive math genius from India, at a high rolling casino in London. Venkat tells Perci about an equation that could not only change the dialogue on mathematics forever, but one that has already left an indelible impression of guilt – for many painful reasons – on Venkat’s life. As it turns out, the reclusive genius Venkat has cracked a theory that could redefine the principles of probability and randomness. However, as with all exceptional knowledge, his equation has its upside – as well as its dark underbelly. Aware that he is on the precipice of an extraordinary discovery, one that could find applications across various sciences, Venkat is encouraged to test his theory in the real world by professor Shantanu, an ambitious colleague of Venkat. Although Venkat has no interest in the money that could come from practicing his equation to crack Teen Patti, (a poker game) he eventually succumbs to Shantanu’s charismatic persuasion. Soon, with the help of a few students, each with a complicated and singular fate of their own, they explore the addas (underground gambling dens) of wild Bombay. But what starts out as an experiment between a charismatic young professor and an eccentric older one soon descends into a game neither of them can control. When their lives sink into maddening chaos, the greed and desperation that had fueled them on can no longer save them. Perci understands that Venkat’s theory in essence, questions the idea of what is random – and what is fated.

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Watched ‘Teen Patti‘ which was on my must-see list for a pretty long time. Its definitely another one of Amitabh’s magic. Wonder how all the story lines he has worked upon in his second innings are so splendid. And, every time I get this amazing feeling of watching a real-life character in whatever role he performs. He excels in-spite of negative portrayal and clumsy make-up with the help of his eyes and voice that are damn expressive! He is definitely an icon from whom all the actors who are aging up must learn to choose roles from. The other actors in the movie have given a neat performance as well. If you are a type who likes suspense movies that make sense and also convey a message, go for it.

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15-20 people in the theatre again. Another flop. Teen Patti starts off OK. Amitabh Bacchan explains probability and some how manages to predict which hand will in a game of Teen Patti. Then, it starts to fade away with sequences which offer nothing of interest one after the other.

As the movie progresses, it becomes more pointless. It is disjointed and badly edited which gets poorer by the second. It becomes a movie which says greed is bad and shows how relationships break down, student commits suicide in stress and keeps ramming the fact that trying to earn money by this method is dirty. Then there is the supposed main plot of the movie where they are trying to find out the mysterious blackmailer which pops up every twenty minutes only to disappear.

And I haven’t come to Ben Kingsley-Amitabh Bacchan scenes. First of all all we know is Ben Kingsley is a rich man, probably owner of a casino. And every 40 minutes there is a scene between the two mulling about life and giving away philosophies which are drab. Worst of all, they are dubbed in Hindi which is ****ing ridiculous. Makes the dialogues seem even more pointless, if that’s possible.

And the acting by the actors including Amitabh Bachchan is very ordinary. I give the movie a 0.5/10 and that’s only because I like two songs in the movie.

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“Teen Patti” surprised me. After all, it stars Amitabh Bachchan and he’s my favorite Indian actor….to I expected to enjoy the film. Instead, I only felt disappointment…and a bit annoyed. It should have been better…much, much better.

The story is a reworking of the American film, “21”, but with enough differences to say it’s not a remake. Unfortunately, all the new things they added to the mix just took an excellent idea and made it much, much worse. Annoying and unlikable characters, songs that just did not fit the story, plot elements that were unnecessary…all these made the original idea muddled.

Bachchan plays a mathematics professor who’s been lecturing on probability. He’s come to realize that using statistics and probability, he COULD make a huge killing by using a team of gamblers. And, initially, the plan nearly gets them killed, as the underground gambling dens seem frequented by psychotic thugs. But they cannot quit, as SOME unknown person knows about their scheme and has threatened to harm the college students helping the professor unless they keep playing and giving this unknown person a cut. In the film they called this blackmail but the correct term for forcing someone to do something or you will harm them is actually extortion…but no matter. What’s next? Well, lots of over the top drama and a story that left me wanting the whole thing to end.

The bottom line is that there was a kernal of a good story but way too many distractions along the way to interfere with the plot. Take my advice….see “21” instead…it’s intelligent and free from all the unnecessary and annoying things in “Teen Patti”.