An eccentric professor (Bachchan) has a beautiful mind that sees permutations and combinations emerging out of a pack of cards. His genius is then put to heinous use by his colleague (Madhavan) and their students
Teen Patti
A; Thriller
Dir: Leena Yadav
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Sir Ben Kingsley, Madhavan, Shraddha Kapoor, Dhruv Ganesh, Siddharth Kher, Vaibhav Talwar
*1/2
WHAT'S IT ABOUT: An eccentric professor (Bachchan) has a beautiful mind that sees permutations and combinations emerging out of a pack of cards. His genius is then put to heinous use by his colleague (Madhavan) and their students. The idea is to use the prediction formula at gambling and win big bucks. But all that glitters is never gold as the tables turn upon the players sooner than expected. Double-crossing, back-stabbing and blackmail become the plot turners eventually leading the goodfellas to realise they are in for big trouble. And then there's Sir Ben Kingsley to whom Bachchan narrates the entire story in badly dubbed Hindi!u00a0
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WHAT'S HOT: Debutante Shraddha Kapoor has a certain raw appeal that makes her stand out in an otherwise dull group.u00a0
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WHAT'S NOT: It's excruciatingly painful to watch conversations between Kingsley and Bachchan being dubbed in terriblly accented Hindi. If the dialogues were originally written in English why not have subtitles? Hearing Boman Irani's voice come out of Ben Kingsley is heart-wrenching! Watching Bachchan reminded me of an all time favourite comic character of mine -- Professor Cuthbert Calculus. To those familiar with Tintin, will know him as the absent minded professor with the trademark swinging pendulum. Unfortunately, Venkat Subramaniam has neither the wit nor humour of Calculus, instead he's a cardboard protagonist who has very little appeal. Of course, the blame is not on the actor but the screenplay which puts him in oddball scenarios. Leena Yadav struggles to come up with what she wants to say throughout the films. Was she trying to make a desi version of 21 or just come up with strange subplots, characters and twists that have no link to each other? Setting up the story in an I T institute that only has random chemistry and calculus formulas scribbled on the board to create the atmosphere was not just silly but almost suicidal. There is no logic to the premise that no one has a inkling of what's going on in the night classes, how a bunch of select students go missing or how two professors land up on betting tables without being caught. Even if we had to turn a blind eye to this goof-up, the story itself keeps going in circles frustrating you with no results. By the time the climax tries to untie the many knots made during the course of over 120 minutes you really lose patience. Madhavan gives an uninspired performance lacking any conviction. Poor Ajay Devgn, Siddharth Sanghvi and Barry John are reduced to cameos that seem forced. If there was an editor on the film, he definitely was busy placing his bets on another project than doing his job!u00a0
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WHAT TO DO: Strange dialogues, bad script and a lengthy second-half murder any chances of this Teen Patti managing any wins on the betting table.
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