Teen Patti (film)

Teen Patti
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Leena Yadav
Produced by	Ambika A. Hinduja
Screenplay by	Leena Yadav Shiv Kumar Subramaniam
Story by	Prasenjit Maita Leena Yadav Shiv Kumar Subramaniam
Starring	Amitabh Bachchan Ben Kingsley R. Madhavan Raima Sen Shraddha Kapoor Tinnu Anand Mahesh Manjrekar
Music by	Salim-Sulaiman
Cinematography	Aseem Bajaj
Edited by	Hughes Winborne Kaushik Das
Distributed by	Serendipity Films
Release date	26 February 2010 (2010-02-26)
Running time	140 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi English

Teen Patti (English: Three Cards) is a 2010 Bollywood film directed by Leena Yadav. It stars Amitabh Bachchan, Ben Kingsley, R. Madhavan, Raima Sen, Shraddha Kapoor and is produced by Ambika Hinduja under the banners Hinduja Ventures and Serendipity Films. The film is about 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. Shraddha Kapoor who debuted in the film was disappointed since the film bombed at the box office.

The story begins with Venkat Subhramaniam (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 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 (R. 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'.