Teen Patti

Synopsis: 

Set in India and England, and starring two of the greatest living acting legends of our time - 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.

Ben Kingsley, who essays Perci Trachtenberg, widely regarded as the world's greatest living mathematician, meets Venkat, played by Amitabh Bachchan, a reclusive math genius from India, at a hugh 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.

As it turns out, the reclusive genius Venkat has cracked a theory that could redefine the principles of probability and randomness. However, as with all exceptional knowledge, his equation has its upside - as well as its dark underbelly. Aware that he is on the precipice of an extraordinary discovery, one that could find applications across various sciences, Venkat is encouraged to test his theory in the real world by professor Shantanu, essayed by Madhavan (the super star from South India), an ambitious colleague of Venkat. Although Venkat has no interest in the money that could come from practicing his equation to crack Teen Patti, (a poker game) which could rake in all the moolah, he eventually succumbs to Shantanu's charismatic persuasion. Soon, with the help of few students, each with a complicated and singular fate of their own, they explore the assas (underground gambling dens) of wild Bombay, and 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 soon descends into a game neither of them can control. When their lives sing into maddening chaos, the greed and desperation that had fueled them on can no longer save them.

Perci understands that Venkat's theory is essence, questions the idea of what random - and what is fated. A surprising and deeply moving redemption, initiated by Perci, closes this stupendously modern film that is as much about private equations of honor and chance, and about knowledge that can change the world. But what if the price of this knowledge is life itself?