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Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Ben Kingsley, Madhavan, Dhruv Ganesh
Director: Leena Yadav
Teen Patti is the kind of film that makes you want to send everyone associated with it for a urine test so you can confirm whether they had drugs in their system while making this senseless movie. For two hours and twenty minutes I sat in stunned silence as the film unfolded, desperately trying to figure out how and why something like this was made.
Teen Patti has so many things wrong with it that a review threatens to become a list. Let me start with the most obvious: The film's trailers have already revealed its likeness to the Kevin Spacey-starrer "21", but the makers of Teen Patti don't even have the skills to plagiarize competently.
In "21", a greedy university professor and his students figure out how to count cards and make a killing at Vegas casinos. In Teen Patti , a well-meaning professor is coerced and subsequently blackmailed into gambling for money.
Since Amitabh Bachchan plays the central role here, the character is 'tweaked' from dubious to helpless, because let's face it, who'd dare cast Bachchan as a crook? So Venkat Subramanium, the character that AB plays, is a mathematics professor who assembles a team of five students and a younger lecturer to help in his research for a paper on the theory of probability. That research quickly turns into visits to gambling dens and casinos, where the team becomes addicted to making easy money.
The holes in the plot aside, Teen Patti suffers on account of careless direction. Can it really be so easy for two professors and their students to walk in and out of seedy gambling parlors without raising any suspicion? Do red-hot, richie-rich bimbos actually throw themselves at someone that looks like R Madhavan only because he claims he owns an Italian gelato empire? And would anyone really agree to give up half their earnings to an anonymous blackmailer without even making an effort to find out if it's just a prank caller?
You're troubled by dozens of such howlers in a film that gets virtually nothing right. The dialogues are impossibly stupid, and passing off over-fed, gaudily-dressed junior artistes as millionaire gamblers is laughable to say the least.
Amitabh Bachchan appears positively embarrassed to be trapped in this amateur kindergarten-like production; he goes through his scenes robotically as if all wit and thought were beaten out of him. R Madhavan hams it up, and the younger actors fail to even make a passing impression.
Directed by Leena Yadav, Teen Patti is an incoherent mess of logic-defying scenes that never come together as a fluid script. It's got snazzy camerawork and occasionally hip production design, but none of that matters in the end. What you take with you as you leave the cinema is shock. Shock that nobody associated with this film had the intelligence or the courage to turn around and say, "This sucks."
At best, on a really boring day, this film might provide some unintentional comedy. For that alone, I'm going with one out of five for director Leena Yadav's Teen Patti. Formidable actors like Amitabh Bachchan and Ben Kingsley are cast together for the first time on screen in a film like this. We ought to be ashamed.
Rating: 1/5
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