Pretty Good

Brilliant and touching

Am I Missing Something?

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

With a cast that includes Amitabh Bachchan, Ben Kingsley, Madhavan, Raima Sen with cameos by such greats as Shakti Kapoor and Om Puri and all we get is such a boring copied script? Not even the endless parade of eye-candy could save this film from drowning in the box office flop that it was and is. It's so sad that Bollywood film-makers feel the need to do this, make their own versions of Hollywood films. A professor at a prestigious Indian university gathers a bunch of his most talented and gifted mathematics students and teaches them how to manipulate the law of probability in order to win card games at casinos. Watch the more superior movie from which it was copied, 21 starring Kevin Spacey.

There is only one word for this movie BAD in capital.I have never been a great fan of Big B but some of his performances have been remarkable. this was not one of them.Sir Ben Kingsley Seems to have been cast just for the sake of getting a great name from Hollywood across to bollywood. His acting talents were very poorly utilized and i agree with BOBBYSIN "Sir Ben Kingsley is simply wasted in the movie and the director simply misses the great opportunity she was given to work with." The Newcomers did a better Job then the seniors in this movie.Madhavan- my god what a silly look they gave him for a professor. it looked like instead of being a professor in the college he was some guy at the counter of the college canteens. his performance was mediocre. It seemed he was overwhelmed by the thought of working with Sir Ben Kingsley though he had only one scene with him at the end of the movie.Watching the movie i got bored and just wanted to leave. almost dosed off till i heard a child cry in the Hall.It seemed as if the writers and the director tried Taking Amitabh Bachchan and create and Indian version of Kevin Spacey In 21 but ended up with Russel Crowe from A beautiful Mind. Some might find it bizarre but that's what the end of the movie was like according to me. I would advice people that are thinking of going and watching this movie that change your plans, Pick something else.

Teen Patti is a complete disaster. There is no coherence and most of the scenes were just shot without having any context and meaning. There were some characters (Bikram's roommate, Ben Kingsley) who didn't have any reason to be part of this movie.The basic theme of the movie itself is technically flawed. Teen Patti is a game where maths cannot play any role in increasing your winning probability to more than 50% as opposed to Black Jack where card counting can increase your winning probability to more than 50%.The director didn't trust the intelligence of the audience enough to find it necessary to explain Professor Venkat's game strategy. There so many loose ends in the movie for which no explanation was offered as to the how's and why's behind Sid's money being stolen (the red bag of money) and placed in Bikram's room. The kidnap plot was very comical.I would rate 'Neal n Nikki', 'Home Delivery', 'Kisna' much better than this movie :)

15-20 people in the theatre again. Another flop. Teen Patti starts off OK. Amitabh Bacchan explains probability and some how manages to predict which hand will in a game of Teen Patti. Then, it starts to fade away with sequences which offer nothing of interest one after the other.As the movie progresses, it becomes more pointless. It is disjointed and badly edited which gets poorer by the second. It becomes a movie which says greed is bad and shows how relationships break down, student commits suicide in stress and keeps ramming the fact that trying to earn money by this method is dirty. Then there is the supposed main plot of the movie where they are trying to find out the mysterious blackmailer which pops up every twenty minutes only to disappear.And I haven't come to Ben Kingsley-Amitabh Bacchan scenes. First of all all we know is Ben Kingsley is a rich man, probably owner of a casino. And every 40 minutes there is a scene between the two mulling about life and giving away philosophies which are drab. Worst of all, they are dubbed in Hindi which is ****ing ridiculous. Makes the dialogues seem even more pointless, if that's possible.And the acting by the actors including Amitabh Bachchan is very ordinary. I give the movie a 0.5/10 and that's only because I like two songs in the movie.