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PATTI MOVIE REVIEW |
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by : Harish V |
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Starring:
: Amitabh Bachchan, Sir Ben Kingsley, R
Madhavan, Raima Sen, Dhruv Ganesh, Siddharth
Kher.
Direction:
Leena Yadav
Music:
Salim-Sulaiman
Production:
Serendipity Films |
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Two
legends of our times Amitabh and Sir Ben
Kingsley in ‘Teen Patti’ are
more than enough to lure the movie fanatics
lining up at the ticket window. This Leena
Yadav’s second attempt after the
rather confused and controversial ‘Shabd’
has taken its theme from the 2008 hit
’21’.
A mathematical experiment drives a bunch
of people into the world of crime, passion,
greed, jealousy and deception. And add
in some twists and that is what Teen Patti
is all about.
Leena has improved leaps and bounds as
a director but not as a story teller.
The movie had a confusing flow, quite
reminiscent to her previous movie. Logical
and continuation mistakes were aplenty.
The biggest being that the mathematical
formula just tells you who will win the
game and not a tweak on how to win, and
with that Amitabh |
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and Co. winning in crores was illogical. There were
many unanswered questions as well. What happened to
the killing of the black mailer? Why didn’t
the police try to find more about the money that they
apprehended? How is it possible to give away 6 crores
to someone without a reason? How is it possible that
the only punishment for the death of a student is
accepting the resignation of the lecturer involved?
But the power and greed for money was well shown.
Technically the movie was quite an ace, with Aseem
Bajaj’s brilliant work behind the camera, Kaushik
and Hughes innovative editing tricks, a spooky background
sound by Andrew Belletty and a good musical score
by Salim-Sulaiman.
Amitabh Bachchan acts like a King, as a mathematical
genius, and seeing him with Ben Kingsley was a treat.
The only put off being the dubbed Hindi version of
their conversation. Sir Ben Kingsley’s role
demanded no histrionics and yet he impresses us with
his eyes and body language, a true artist. Madhavan
was exceptional as a professor with negative shades
and looked every bit convincing. Siddharth Kher, Abbas
Sheikh and Shraddha were good in their respective
roles. Bikram Ashwin Dhar as Dhruv was brilliant.
What were Ajay Devgn and Jackie Shroff doing in this
film? At least Shakthi Kapoor comes and voices out
a brilliant punch line. Complete waste of talent.
Overall a movie which can be seen as an experimental
escapist cinema or just a below average movie with
two legends in it.
Verdict:
Leena wastes talent once again
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