Teen Patti

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Though it has not been confirmed, but Teen Patti will be released this year. After one half year filming in India and England, this film is already completed. Produced by Ambika Hinduja under Serendipty banner, Teen Patti costs high budgets and casts multi-starers. Now, it gets into post-production and the movie, whose English translation means “three cards”.will have its world premiere in Mumbai in August 2009.

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High Hand in Teen Patti

Out of the five high-profile films Amitabh Bachchan is working on this year, Teen Patti, directed by Leena Yadav, is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated.

The film features a host of stars, Big B along with Oscar-winner Sir Ben Kingsley, and other popular actors such as Madhavan, Boman Irani, Siddharth Kher, Mahesh Manjrekar, Raima Sen, Dhruv Ganesh, Vaibhav Talwar and Shraddha Kapoor.

Amitabh Bachchan plays Venkat Subramaniam, an absent minded professor of mathematics who is on the verge of cracking a theory that could redefine the principles of probability and randomness.

A thriller about interplay of luck, fate and mathematical probability in gambling, Venkat trains five of his brightest protégées (Madhavan, Siddharth Kher and newcomers Dhruv Ganesh, Vaibhav Talwar and Shraddha Kapoor) for high stakes gambling.

At the same time, Sir Ben, who plays Perci Trachtenberg, one of the greatest living mathematicians in the world, understands that Venkat’s new theory could have far reaching implications on mathematics and science. It’s a theory that questions the idea of what is fate and what is random.

The film was rumoured earlier to be inspired from the Kevin Spacey starrer 21 and though the film does have some similar moments, Leena has changed the storyline by including Kingsley’s character in the movie.

Scripted by Shivkumar Subramaniam and Leena Yadav, the film is produced by Ambika Hinduja and marks the debut of actor Shakti Kapoor’s daughter, along with Dhruv Ganesh and Vaibhav Talwar.

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All crews and casts of Teen Patti went to London

in the early of May 2009 to finish last scenes of this film. After long speculation, finally Oscar-award winning actor Ben Kingsley who propelled to fame for his depiction of Mahatma Gandhi in 1982 returned to his Indian roots to star in a Bollywood movie, Teen Patti, with megastar Amitabh Bachchan. Buzz said before it would be Pierce Brosnan or Richard Gere who will play a pivotal role along with Big B.

Shraddha Kapoor was there together with the complete casts. Check it out!

Sir Ben has two projects lined up in India with his own production company. One film will tell the love story behind the building of Taj Mahal, while another is about an American youngster in India.

"In the short time since making Teen Patti, I've also had offers to act in other Indian films," said Kingsley, whose next Hollywood film is Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorsese. "I'd love to return to India to film there," he said.

"In the short time since making Teen Patti, I've also had offers to act in other Indian films," said Kingsley, whose next Hollywood film is Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorsese. "I'd love to return to India to film there," he said.

Back to the shoots of Teen Patti, parts of the film set in England were shot at St John's College, Cambridge. Big B and Sir Ben Kingsley also picturized some scenes in a bar there.

Madhavan and Sir Ben Kingsley in London

Leena Yadav and Madhavan

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Amitabh bachchan and Teen Patti

In the early 2009, all shoots of Teen Patti has been accomplished in Pune, India before going to abroad. During that time, Amitabh Bachchan has kept his father Harivansh Rai Bachchan immortal through his poems. He used post his favorite poems from his father’s collection on his blog. Apparently the cast and crew of Teen Patti were lucky enough to enjoy Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s poetry through Amitabh Bachchan. A unit hand told us a notable experience that happened on the last day of the shoot. “To make the last day of the film’s shoot special the entire cast and crew of Teen Patti requested Mr Babchchan to recite of his father’s poetry. After cajoling him, he finally agreed to recite for 20 minutes. However everyone gathered in a classroom when Big B started reciting his favorite poems which continued for almost two hours.” Says a unit hand. Alongside Madhavan, Mahesh Manjrekar, and Raima Sen this movie also stared by John Barry, who has taught acting to Shah Rukh Khan and Manoj Bajpai, is all set to make his acting debut. The theatre teacher was there to conduct a workshop with Amitabh Bachchan and some college students, who are part of the cast for Teen Patti (Siddharth Kher, Vaibhav Talwar, Dhruv Ganesh, and Shraddha Kapoor). As expected, the students were in awe of Amitabh Bachchan.

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