Teen Patti directd by Leena Yadav resembles to Hollywood film 21. There are highs and lows in the film similar to a roller coaster ride. This is not only about gambling on table, but all those gambles that we take in our life.

The film begins with Venkat Subramanium (Amitabh Bachchan) invited to the presitigious Cambridge University by Mathematics genius Perci Trachtenberg (Sir Kingsley). On meeting, Venkat an eccentric mathematics scholar himself narrates his personal tale of his invented theory and his tryst with the gambling world while using it.

Venkat narrates how after writing a thesis on the theory of Probability his seniors didn’t agree with his theory. But when he plays an online game of cards of Teen Patti, he realises that his theory is right. He immediately shares it with his junior professor Shantanu (R Madhavan). In order to verify the theory, the two rope in their three students Aparna (Shraddha Kapoor), Sid (Siddharth Kher) and Bikram (Dhruv). They all go to a casino and try their hand at the game. They play the game employing the theory and win it.

But soon greed comes in and other emotions follow, which gets them all into trouble. An unknown blackmailer starts calling Subramanium and demanding a big share in the money they make from their games. The blackmailer even starts dictating which games they should play next. A richie rich student Abbas (Vaibhav) too joins the group. Subramanium starts suspecting the blackmailer to be one amongst his group members but soon a situation arises where he gets convinced its none of them but someone else who is playing the game on him. What happens next makes up for the film.

Performance wise, Amitabh Bachchan is brilliant. Sir Kingsley is fine. R Madhvan does his part well. Shraddha Kapoor, Siddharth Kher and Dhruv are just okay. Vaibhav has tremendous screen presence. He can do wonder in coming films.

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