Last night, I saw “Teen Patti”, and was all enthusiastic watching the two giants of the silver screen Sir Ben Kingsley and Amitabh Bachchan for the first time in a movie. Their presence in the movie was thrilling and both of them did a fantastic job as expected. Amitabh Bachchan as a mathematician was simply superb!

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Teen Patti is a movie based on the story of a professor who is known to be mad by his colleagues. He invented something very interesting about the theory of probability and he got the companionship of another professor R Madhavan, who was under huge debt. He wanted to earn money from the discovery of this professor.

Meanwhile Amitabh Bachchan took assistance from a few students to check whether his discovery is really true or not, while the students became mad about earning money with the help of his famous theory on Gambling. They tasted success too, but just when everything seemed to be going their way, a blackmailer comes and starts blackmailing Amitabh Bachchan.

With the byte of suspense, the story proceeds further and the blackmailer student commits suicide, leaving Amitabh with no choice but to resign from the college. Finally Sir Ben Kingsley, the Oscar Winning actor comes into play and he ends the movie on a good note.

In my view, all the actors have done a brilliant job, especially the students who worked with Amitabh on his theory. Although in her first movie, Shraddha Kapoor failed to mark a positive presence, but the presence of experienced actors like Shakti Kapoor, Mahesh Manjrekar, Ajay Devgan and Tinu Anand made the movie immensely attractive. The entire credit goes to Leena Yadav, the director of the movie.

In Sir Ben Kingsley words, it was a great pleasure to work with a female director. As per him, he has so far worked only in a few movies which have been directed by females and he thought that a woman brings an unusual perspective to the movie.

Although it is a nice movie, but I think that it will hardly attract the Indian viewers. The story is based on gambling, a topic which is not too common in India. Also the madness of Amitabh Bachchan in the movie is really not understandable to many people. As far as his acting is concerned, he did a fantastic job as a passionate mathematician!