Teen Patti Photos and Synopsis

TEEN PATTI

Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, R Madhavan, Sir Ben Kingsley, Saira Mohan, Shraddha Kapoor, Siddharth Kher, Vaibhav Talwar, Dhruv Ganesh and Raima Sen

Music: Salim Sulaiman

Writers: Shiv Subramanyam, Leena Yadav

Editors: Hughes Winborne, Kaushik Das

Director of Photography: Aseem Bajaj

Sound Design: Andrew Belletty

Film Website: www.teenpattithemovie.com

Synopsis

Set in India and England, starring two acting legends of our times – czar of the Indian film industry, Amitabh Bachchan and Academy Award Winner Sir Ben Kingsley – Teen Patti is an emotionally riveting and razor sharp thriller about greed, deception and giant feats of imagination.

Sir Ben Kingsley, essays Perci Trachtenberg, regarded as the world’s greatest living mathematician. Perci meets Venkat, played by Amitabh Bachchan, a reclusive math genius from India, at a casino in London. Venkat tells Perci about an equation that could not only change the dialogue on mathematics forever but one that has imprinted guilt – for many painful reasons – on Venkat's life. As it turns out, the reclusive genius Venkat has cracked a theory that could redefine the principles of probability and randomness.

One of Venkat’s fellow professors, Shantanu - essayed by South Indian super star R Madhavan – encourages him to test the theory out in the real world. Madhavan believes Venkat’s equation could crack the card game, Teen Patti, which could rake in all the moolah. Along with a few students, each with a complex fate, they explore the addas (underground gambling dens) of Bombay. A series of edge-of-your-seat escapades keep the film moving faster than a bullet.

But what starts out as an experiment between a charismatic young professor and an eccentric older one quickly descends into a game neither can control. As their lives sink into maddening chaos, the greed and desperation that fuelled them can no longer save them. Perci understands that Venkat's theory in essence questions the idea of what is random - and of what is fated.

A deeply moving redemption, initiated by Perci, closes this stupendously modern film that is as much about the private equations of honour and chance, and about knowledge that can change the world. But what if the price of this knowledge is life itself?