India Masala
Bollywood and culture in an emerging India
Teen Patti: The game is over
If you’ve played cards or for that matter, any kind of game, you will know a good start is only half the battle won.
It is how you end it that determines the result and if director Leena Yadav had only kept this cardinal rule in mind before starting out to make “Teen Patti”, perhaps this would have been a very different film.
For a film that starts off quite intriguingly, especially in the first half-hour, “Teen Patti” is a textbook study in how most films slip uncontrollably in the second half and any element of thrill or suspense you may have felt disappears in the chaos of a badly written and executed script.
Amitabh Bachchan plays Venkat Subramaniam, a mathematics professor who feels underappreciated by his peers because they don’t seem to understand his research. While playing an online poker game one night, he realises he can predict the cards in each participant’s hand, and hence the result of the game.
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The Wall
