Te3n

Te3n
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ribhu Dasgupta
Produced by	Sujoy Ghosh Hyunwoo Thomas Kim Gulab Singh Tanwar Abhijit Ghatak Suresh Nair Sameer Rajendran Gauri Sathe
Screenplay by	Suresh Nair Ritesh Shah Bijesh Jayarajan
Starring	Amitabh Bachchan Nawazuddin Siddiqui Vidya Balan Sabyasachi Chakraborty Padmavathi Rao
Music by	Clinton Cerejo
Cinematography	Tushar Kanti Ray
Edited by	Gairik Sarkar
Production company	Reliance Entertainment Kross Pictures, Inc.
Release date	10 June 2016 (2016-06-10)
Running time	136 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹340 million[1]
Box office	est. ₹323.1 million[2]

Teen (stylised as Te3n; तीन is Hindi for "Three") is an Indian Hindi-language thriller film written and directed by Ribhu Dasgupta. This remake of the 2013 South Korean film Montage stars Amitabh Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Padmavathi Rao, and Vidya Balan in the lead roles.^[3][4][5] It was released on 10 June 2016. Though praised for acting and storyline by critics and audience, the film was a commercial failure at the box office.^[1]

Plot

John Biswas (Amitabh Bachchan) is a 70-year-old grandfather who visits the police station regularly. He is desperate to find the kidnapper and murderer of his granddaughter Angela, who died eight years ago. Police inspector Sarita Sarkar (Vidya Balan) has no clues about the case. But he continues to search for the person who caused it, despite being discouraged by people all around him, and collects evidence one by one at a slow pace.

John's wife Nancy (Padmavathi Rao) is sick and uses a wheelchair. Despite personal problems, John is determined not to give up. John also regularly meets Father Martin Das (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), who was a police inspector and was handling the Angela kidnapping case. Father Martin Das tries his best in solving the case, but the guilt of being unsuccessful compelled him to leave his job and become a priest.

One day, eight years after that tragic incident, there is another kidnapping, that of a boy named Rony. Everything about it echoes the kidnapping of Angela. Further investigation reveals that the modus operandi for kidnapping Rony is the same as that of Angela. Inspector Sarita requests Father Martin for assistance in cracking the case. Martin supports partially by providing clues and Sarita, with John, start investigating the case.

In the meantime, John doggedly pieces together the identity of Angela's kidnapper from little bits of information that he collects through his own investigations. After confirming the identity of the Angela's kidnapper, he creates a plan to kidnap Rony. John wanted to seek revenge and justice since Rony's grandfather Manohar (Sabyasachi Chakraborty) was the one who had kidnapped Angela. Since the modus operandi was the same, Angela's case file is re-opened. Manohar is then nabbed when, on the instructions of the unknown kidnapper of Rony (John), he tries to flee with the ransom at the railway station. He is arrested by Sarita who interrogates him in the lock-up but he refuses to confess that he had kidnapped his own grandson Rony.

Father Martin finds out that John kidnapped Rony and confronts him. John requests Martin to arrange a meeting with Manohar. During the meeting, John makes Manohar confess about the crime committed by him in front of the police. Manohar confesses and is found guilty of his past activities. Manohar confesses that he kidnapped Angela since he needed money for his daughter's open heart surgery.

It is revealed that Angela was not murdered — while being held captive, she escaped and accidentally fell from a height on to a moving car and died. The car was driven by Father Martin Das, who was injured in the accident.

Cast

Ribhu Dasgupta (standing) with Amitabh Bachchan, during the shooting of Te3n

• Amitabh Bachchan as John Biswas
• Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Father Martin Das
• Vidya Balan as Sarita Sharma^[6]
• Sabyasachi Chakrabarty as Manohar Sinha
• Padmavathi Rao as Nancy Biswas, wife of John Biswas
• Aarnaa Sharma as Angela Roy
• Tota Roy Chowdhury as Peter Roy, Angela's father
• Ricky Patel as Rony Poddar
• Anupam Bhattacharya as Hemant Poddar, Rony's father
• Deblina Chakravorty as Neeta, Rony's mother
• Mukesh Chhabra as Tariq, real estate agent
• Prakash Belawadi as Kumar
• Masood Akhtar as Imambara official
• Phalguni Chatterjee as LMO officer
• Arun Saha as LMO clerk
• Arindol Bagchi as orphanage clerk
• Antara Banerjee as bride in church
• Abhipriti Das as deaf and mute girl
• Mohammad Arif as groom in church
• Paritosh Sand as ACP
• Biswajeet Das as church patron
• Indira Dutta Choudhury as maid
• Sujata Ghosh as constable
• Pratap Rana as peon
• Rajat Das as hawker
• Sagnik as Bhaskor
• Satyam Majumdar as LMO manager
• Suneel Sinha as Hari Prakash
• Soumyajit Majumdar as Hari Prakash's manager

Production

Shooting started on 24 November 2015 with Vidya Balan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui at Writers' Building, Kolkata. It is the first Hindi film for which the doors of the Victorian-era Writers' Building were opened for shooting. Actor Amitabh Bachchan was reported to join the crew on 27 November 2015.^[7] The movie was shot in Kolkata. Shooting wrapped up on 31 January 2016.^[8]

The trailer was released on 5 May 2016.^[9]

In May 2016, Bachchan revealed that the rights of the 2013 South Korean movie had been officially purchased by Sujoy Ghosh.^[10]

Music

Clinton Cerejo composed the music and background score of the film while Amitabh Bhattacharya wrote the lyrics. The audio album of the movie was released on 27 May which was accompanied by a live performance by Vishal Dadlani on the song "Grahan".^[11] The album consists of five tracks sung by Clinton Cerejo, Vishal Dadlani, Benny Dayal, Divya Kumar and Bianca Gomes.^[12]

Amitabh Bachchan recorded a version of song "Kyun Re" for the film.^[13] The song depicts the pain of a grandpa who has lost his granddaughter. The music rights were acquired by T-series.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Amitabh Bhattacharya; all music composed by Clinton Cerejo, Mukesh Officials(Title).

Release

The film released in about 373 screens with about 93 screens in USA, 80 in UAE, 51 in Pakistan, 30 in UK, 20 in Kenya, 17 in Australia, 15 in Tanzania, 12 in Canada, over 9 screens in Malaysia and other countries.^[2]

References

External links

• Te3n on IMDb