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Leena Yadav’s Teen Patti on gambling brings together actors Ben Kingsley and Amitabh Bachchan
Four years after filmmaker Leena Yadav crashed out with her directorial debut Shabd , she feels she has a more mature vision of what works at the box office. “I have graduated from letters to numbers,” she says teasingly, referring to her latest project Teen Patti , which deals with the high rollers from the gambling world and a practical application of the theory of probability. “Strangely, I have a morbid fear of numbers. I hope this movie doesn’t prove to be a gamble,” she smiles during a promotional meet at Tasty Tangles, an Oriental restaurant in Vasant Kunj.
The hype and anticipation surrounding the film is already palpable due to its celebrity star cast, Amitabh Bachchan and Oscar winner Sir Ben Kingsley, who Yadav was determined to ‘catch hold of’. The other actors include R Madhavan and four debutants Shraddha Kapoor, Sidharth Kher, Vaibhav Talwar and Dhruv Ganesh.
Four years after filmmaker Leena Yadav crashed out with her directorial debut Shabd , she feels she has a more mature vision of what works at the box office. “I have graduated from letters to numbers,” she says teasingly, referring to her latest project Teen Patti , which deals with the high rollers from the gambling world and a practical application of the theory of probability. “Strangely, I have a morbid fear of numbers. I hope this movie doesn’t prove to be a gamble,” she smiles during a promotional meet at Tasty Tangles, an Oriental restaurant in Vasant Kunj.
The hype and anticipation surrounding the film is already palpable due to its celebrity star cast, Amitabh Bachchan and Oscar winner Sir Ben Kingsley, who Yadav was determined to ‘catch hold of’. The other actors include R Madhavan and four debutants Shraddha Kapoor, Sidharth Kher, Vaibhav Talwar and Dhruv Ganesh.
Since the subject involved mathematical theories and poker games, the research involved consulting many mathematicians from MIT and IIT. “MY plan was to make a film on the youth,” explains Yadav, who co-wrote the story with Shivkumar Subramaniam. “I met composer Vishal Dadlani who narrated a few incidents related to gambling scams in the US I read up further on card scams and decided to adapt the idea to an Indian setting.”
From script to screen, the film took three-years. Shooting locations ranged from Mumbai’s gambling addas to casinos in London. “Unlike Shabd , which took 38 days to film, Teen Patti took time to script. There were 1,000 auditions for some of the roles,” says Yadav, who started her career as an editor with Rajkumar Hirani in ad films and has worked for television serials like Sea Hawks on Doordarshan.
Rumour mills have started working over time accussing Teen Patti of being a rip-off from Robert Luketic’s 2008 Hollywood film 21, about an MIT scandal on blackjack. “I had officially locked my script before 21 released. My plot is completely different, the only similarity between the two films is the study of human greed,” she explains. With a release slated for February 26, Yadav is confident the wheel of fortune will swing her way.
From script to screen, the film took three-years. Shooting locations ranged from Mumbai’s gambling addas to casinos in London. “Unlike Shabd , which took 38 days to film, Teen Patti took time to script. There were 1,000 auditions for some of the roles,” says Yadav, who started her career as an editor with Rajkumar Hirani in ad films and has worked for television serials like Sea Hawks on Doordarshan.
Rumour mills have started working over time accussing Teen Patti of being a rip-off from Robert Luketic’s 2008 Hollywood film 21, about an MIT scandal on blackjack. “I had officially locked my script before 21 released. My plot is completely different, the only similarity between the two films is the study of human greed,” she explains. With a release slated for February 26, Yadav is confident the wheel of fortune will swing her way.
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