Star Cast : Amitabh Bachchan, Sir Ben Kingsley, Madhavan, Raima Sen, Dhruv Ganesh, Siddharth Kher, Vaibhav Talwar, Saira Mohan, Sharadha Kapoor, Danny Denzongpa, Sushmita Sen, Ajay Devgan, Jackie Shroff, Mahesh Manjrekar, Irfan Khan, Boman Irani, Tinu Anand, Shakti Kapoor, Ganesh Yadav, Meeta Vasisht, Pankaj Jha, Ranjeet
DVD Features: Anamorphic Widescreen, Dolby Digital ® 5.1  Surround, English Subtitles, NTSC All Regions
Banner : Serendipity Films
Music : Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant
Director : Leena Yadav
Producer : Ambika A Hinduja
 

This entire story is, in fact, a flashback, as recounted by mathematician-turned-gambler Venkat to Perci Trachtenberg (Ben Kingsley), a magician-turned-mathematician. An admirer of his work, Trachtenberg invites Venkat to the University of Cambridge and that’s how the flashback begins.

A little like the Hollywood film 21 (2008),Teen Patti’s central flaw is its meandering storytelling. Writer-director Leena Yadav (Shabd, 2005) takes too long to establish the premise and explain how Venkat wants to crack the probability principle.

It’s a complicated route where the professor explains why he thinks even shuffling playing cards is not entirely random, and despite paying attention, you’re not quite sure how path breaking this idea is.

Yadav’s narration is high on style, but doesn’t quite articulate the substance. Take the scene where the characters talk philosophy at the gaming table, a moment that could have been edgy had we been able to get the significance of this talk and its connection with the plot.