CommentTeen Patti is a card game, which can have most seasoned gamblers salivating at the mouth. Even casual players who may just indulge in a couple of rounds at Diwali [ Images ] or New Year just love the excitement. With such a title and Amitabh Bachchan [ Images ] in the lead role, one would have thought the producers have a sure shot winner on their hands.
Unfortunately, not.
I haven't seen Hollywood film, 21, which is supposed to have inspired the film. But we've had some interesting adaptations in the past.
One of the most popular moves in Teen Patti is 'Blind'. But here, it seems director Leena Yadav was moving blindly in all directions. Amitabh Bachchan (Venkat Subramanium) is an unsuccessful Maths professor whose superiors claim his research projects have no practical applications. But his latest is a dissertation on the Theory of Probability which can help them predict the winner in a card game and earn megabucks in the process. So the tutor and his bunch of students are encouraged to take a shot at implementing the theory in the real world. And then all hell breaks loose.
The students, who started out as middle-class simpletons, turn into raving lunatics overnight. They come and go as they please, stash hundreds of rupees in their hostel rooms and get hysterical.
The script doesn't evolve, it just jumps jerkily from one level to another so that the director can take her story to a predictable end. Such a pity because co-writer Shiv Subramaniam has written such brilliant films like Parinda and Hazaaron Khwaishen Aisi.
It's getting tiring watching R Madhavan [ Images ] doing young man roles. He hasn't lost his acting abilities but he really needs to rid himself of his flab. The energy and zest that the actor used to bring on screen -- especially seen in Guru -- is missing.
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