Watched 'Teen Patti' which was on my must-see list for a pretty long time. Its definitely another one of Amitabh's magic. Wonder how all the story lines he has worked upon in his second innings are so splendid. And, every time I get this amazing feeling of watching a real-life character in whatever role he performs. He excels in-spite of negative portrayal and clumsy make-up with the help of his eyes and voice that are damn expressive! He is definitely an icon from whom all the actors who are aging up must learn to choose roles from. The other actors in the movie have given a neat performance as well. If you are a type who likes suspense movies that make sense and also convey a message, go for it.

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.

Having immense potential, this film unfortunately turns out to be strictly average. The whole movie is about a group of students and teachers that get trapped in an underworld gambling ring. The movie was promoted showing how mathematics can be utilized to manipulate games, deduce card dealings, and accurately predict hands. While these do occur, absolutely no details regarding the formula, its discovery, its teachings, etc. are given. There's just all this hoopla of a probability theory with nonsensical numbers and equations constantly being written in the air, and the audience is just supposed to blindly trust what Amitabh is saying without even getting an opportunity to understand it. Another part of the false advertising was that it is supposed to be a very slick, stylish, thriller, which it was not. Songs were good, but character development was poor. The final monologue by Amitabh is some sort of a saving grace, but a little too late.

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.