Director Leena Yadav’s ambitious venture featuring the two stalwarts of Hindi and Hollywood cinema - Amitabh Bachchan and Sir Ben Kingsley - Teen Patti is set to release in mid-February 2010. Produced by Ambika Hinduja, the film explores changing human emotions through a series of poker games and kickstarts with a conversation between two mathematic experts at a casino in London. While Kingsley plays Persi Trachtenberg, regarded as the world’s greatest mathematician alive, Bachchan essays the role of Venkat, a reclusive maths genius. Over a casual conversation at the casino with Trachtenberg, Venkat ends up sharing a mathematical equation that could re-define the principles of probability and randomness. Since the two play scholars and professors respectively, scenes have also been shot at the Cambridge University along with R. Madhavan, who plays Shantanu, Venkat’s co-professor.
What follows next is a series of gambling encounters in Mumbai after Shantanu persuades Venkat to try his equation at a game of poker and they find success along with group of college students. The series of encounters have been shot across gambling parlours set-up on streets as well on studios in Mumbai. As the film progresses and the gamblers’ prowess with the equation grows, greed takes over in what initially started off as an experiment of knowledge. It is Trachtenberg who then rescues these knowledge-seekers- turned-gamblers in the climax act. Sharing the spotlight with Bachchan, Kingsley and Madhavan are Siddharth Kher and Raima Sen alongwith newcomers Shraddha Kapoor, Saira Mohan, Dhruv Ganesh and Vaibhav Talwar.
Source: Screenindia
What follows next is a series of gambling encounters in Mumbai after Shantanu persuades Venkat to try his equation at a game of poker and they find success along with group of college students. The series of encounters have been shot across gambling parlours set-up on streets as well on studios in Mumbai. As the film progresses and the gamblers’ prowess with the equation grows, greed takes over in what initially started off as an experiment of knowledge. It is Trachtenberg who then rescues these knowledge-seekers- turned-gamblers in the climax act. Sharing the spotlight with Bachchan, Kingsley and Madhavan are Siddharth Kher and Raima Sen alongwith newcomers Shraddha Kapoor, Saira Mohan, Dhruv Ganesh and Vaibhav Talwar.
Source: Screenindia