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{{Infobox film
| name = Teen Patti
| image = Teen Patti Movie Poster.jpg
| alt = 
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Leena Yadav]]
| producer = Ambika A. Hinduja
| screenplay = [[Leena Yadav]] Shiv Kumar Subramaniam
| story = Prasenjit Maita [[Leena Yadav]] Shiv Kumar Subramaniam
| starring = [[Amitabh Bachchan]] [[Ben Kingsley]] [[R. Madhavan|Madhavan]] [[Raima Sen]] [[Shraddha Kapoor]] [[Tinnu Anand]] [[Mahesh Manjrekar]]
| music = [[Salim-Sulaiman]]
| cinematography = Aseem Bajaj
| editing = [[Hughes Winborne]] Kaushik Das
| studio =
| distributor = Serendipity Films
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2010|2|26|}}
| runtime = 140 minutes
| country = India
| language = Hindi English
| budget = {{INR|45 [[crore]]|link=yes}}
| gross = {{INR|17.6 crore}}
}}
'''''Teen Patti''''' ({{trans|Three cards}}) is a 2010 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[thriller film]] directed by [[Leena Yadav]]. It stars [[Amitabh Bachchan]], [[Ben Kingsley]], [[R. Madhavan|Madhavan]], [[Raima Sen]] and debutant [[Shraddha Kapoor]]. The film is produced by Ambika Hinduja under the banners of Hinduja Ventures and Serendipity Films. The film follows a mathematics professor, played by Bachchan, who is trying to write a thesis on [[probability]] and relates it to the Indian card game of [[Teen Patti]].

==Plot==
The story begins with Venkat Subramaniam ([[Amitabh Bachchan]]), an Indian professor of [[mathematics]], [[software engineering]], and a genius, teaching mathematics in his village to kids when a postman comes with a letter. The letter is from British mathematician Perci Trachtenberg ([[Ben Kingsley]]), widely regarded as the world's greatest living mathematician, who invites Venkat to a high rolling casino in [[London]]. Venkat tells Perci about an equation that could not only change the dialogue on mathematics forever, but one that has already left an indelible impression of guilt — for many painful reasons — on Venkat's life. It is shown in the past that the reclusive genius Venkat has cracked a theory that could redefine the principles of [[probability]] and [[randomness]]. Venkat tries to use this experiment in a game called [[Teen Patti]] (a [[Poker|poker game]]), which he plays on the Internet. According to this experiment if a person playing Teen Patti knows the three cards with one of the players (except him) he/she can guess the other cards with the rest of the players and therefore can guess who is going to win with the theory of probability.

Venkat succeeds on his theory and submits his report to the institute where he teaches, but they reject his report. Venkat is sure about his theory and wants to try out in reality with live players. So he talks with younger professor Shantanu Biswas ([[R. Madhavan|Madhavan]]) about his theory and tells him to get three students to try out this experiment. Shantanu arranges three students — Sid (Siddharth Kher), the college rockstar; Aparna or Apu ([[Shraddha Kapoor]]), the studious geek, who has a crush on Sid' and Vikram or Vikku (Dhruv Ganesh), the boy next door. They come together and start playing the game. Venkat's theory, like the last time, proves to be successful. Venkat says that after a few more games he'll be sure to crack his [[equation]] and even be able to study it better. Shantanu tells him that he should try using his theory in the real world, where there are people who actually gamble and play Teen Patti, i.e. in underground dens or 'addas'.

Although Venkat has no interest in the money that could come from practicing his equation to crack Teen Patti, he eventually succumbs to Shantanu's charismatic persuasion. Soon, with the help of his new students, they explore the addas of wild [[Bombay]]. Later another student from the institute, Abbas ([[Vaibhav Talwar]]), the rich spoiled brat joins the gang and arranges for them parties in [[casino]]s, private clubs, etc. But what starts out as an experiment between a charismatic young professor and an eccentric older one soon descends into a game neither of them can control. The money they earn gets stolen; someone is blackmailing them; they get greedy about money and, in the course of time, they change into different people and even start betraying each other.

==Cast==
* [[Amitabh Bachchan]] as Prof. Venkat Subramaniam
* [[Ben Kingsley]] as Perci Trachtenberg
* [[R. Madhavan|Madhavan]] as Prof. Shantanu Biswas
* Dhruv Ganesh as Vikram Ashwin Dhar
* [[Ashu Sharma]] as Rammi
* [[Shraddha Kapoor]] as Aparna Khanna (Apu)
* Siddharth Kher as Siddharth Bajaj (Sid)
* [[Vaibhav Talwar]] as Abbas Sheikh
* [[Saira Mohan]] as K.
* [[Raima Sen]] as Shivani Mukherjee
* [[Ajay Devgn]] as Sunny (Cameo appearance)
* [[Jackie Shroff]] as Tony Milano (Special Appearance)
* [[Mahesh Manjrekar]] as Dagdu Seth
* [[Ranjeet]]
* [[Shakti Kapoor]] as Prem London (Cameo appearance)
* [[Tinnu Anand]] as Billu
* Radhika Shah as Card Dealer
* Ganesh Yadav as Police Inspector
* Maria Gomez as [[item number]] ''Neeyat''

==Music==
{{Infobox album
| name = Teen Patti
| type = [[Album]]
| artist = [[Salim-Sulaiman]]
| cover =
| alt =
| released = 2010
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Film soundtrack|Feature film soundtrack]]
| length =
| label = [[T-Series (company)|T-Series]]
| producer =
| prev_title = [[Pyaar Impossible]]
| prev_year = 2010
| next_title = [[Aashayein]]
| next_year = 2010
}}
Music of the film is composed by [[Salim-Sulaiman]] and the lyrics are penned by Ajinkya Iyer and Irfan Siddiqui. Most of the tracks have a western feel associated to them. The songs are remixed by Abhijit Vaghani. [[Sunidhi Chauhan]]'s rendition of the song '''Neeyat Kharab Hai''' was widely acclaimed.
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! # !! Title !! Singer(s)
|-
| 1
| "Life Is A Game" (Hindi Version)
| [[Anushka Manchanda]] & Sonia Saigal
|-
| 2
| "Summertime And The Living"
| Joe Alvares
|-
| 3
| "Teen Patti Ke Gulaam"
| [[Salim-Sulaiman|Salim Merchant]]
|-
| 4
| "Neeyat Kharab Hai"
| [[Sunidhi Chauhan]]
|-
| 5
| "Intezar Me Chupa Kahi"
| Naresh Kamat
|-
| 6
| "Life Is A Game" (English Version)
| [[Anushka Manchanda]] & Sonia Saigal
|-
| 7
| "Neeyat Kharab Hai" (Remix)
| Sunidhi Chauhan & Abhijit Vaghani
|-
| 8
| "Teen Patti Ke Gulaam" (Remix)
| Salim Merchant
|}

==Production==
The film was shot in India and [[England]]. Production designer Ayesha Punvani created gambling dens in places like abandoned train yards, dockyards, abandoned factories, mills that have been shut down and an ice factory.<ref>{{cite web |title=Abandoned dockyards, mills became gambling dens: 'Teen Patti' designer|url=http://movies.indiatimes.com/News/Abandoned-dockyards-mills-became-gambling-dens-Teen-Patti-designer/articleshow/5554818.cms |date=10 Feb 2010 |publisher=[[Indiatimes.com|Indiatimes.com Movies]] }}</ref>

==Reception==
Film critic and author Anupama Chopra called it "a train wreck of a movie".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_Review.aspx?id=486|title=Movie Review|publisher=NDTV.com}}</ref>

==Influences==
''Teen Patti'' is inspired by the English film ''[[21 (2008 film)|21]]'' (without any mention). The end of the film when [[Amitabh Bachchan]] refuses to accept Isaac Newton Award for Applied Mathematics is inspired by the refusal of the [[Fields Medal]] by the Russian mathematician [[Grigori Perelman]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|1183917|Teen Patti}}

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[[Category:2010s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Indian gambling films]]
[[Category:2010 thriller drama films]]
[[Category:Films featuring an item number]]
[[Category:Films about mathematics]]
[[Category:English-language Indian films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Leena Yadav]]
[[Category:Indian thriller drama films]]
[[Category:2010 drama films]]

Teen Patti (film) - Revision history

Ieagle1: basic cleanup structure as per guidelines and cleaned formatting after review

imported>Yamla: Reverted edits by Sonia Saxena 1976 (talk) to last version by Wisdom Walk