MOVIE REVIEW – TE3N (2016)

An official remake of 2013 Korean movie – MONTAGE and second directorial movie of Ribu Dasgupta, whose first film, the Anurag Kashyap-produced Michael (2011), remains unreleased despite premiering in the Toronto International Film Festival, also gets some relief with the release of TE3N. The movie suffers from a pronounced Kahaani hangover because director Sujoy Ghosh is one of the producer in the movie TE3N as he used a lot of the same motifs — crumbling houses, suspicious old men and the lonely bylanes of old Kolkata city.

TE3N is a suspense thriller based on the story of a grandfather, John Biswas (Amitabh Bachchan) whose young granddaughter Angela Roy is kidnapped eight years’ ago and Martin (Nawazuddin), who is the investigating officer of the case at that time and now a Priest in the Church due to guilt of accidental death of the little kidnapped girl.

The movie starts with introducing the audience to the eight-year-old kidnapping case of a young girl, whose grandpa, John visit Police Station daily in hope of some light in the case. As its name suggests TE3N never wavers off from its three principal characters - the granddad John Viswas (Amitabh), present cop Sarita (Vidya Balan) and cop turned priest (Nawaz), each of who is involved with the case for reasons of their own. Though slow in pace, but the story never lets you leave even for a loo break and maintain the suspense right till the end and makes it a must-watch for those who like mysteries.

With gritty determination John makes it his life's mission to resolve his granddaughter's abduction and murder mystery. Nothing will stop him—not old age, an erratic scooter or his duties to his wheelchair-bound wife. Eight years after abduction of young Angela’s disappearance, a similar kidnapping puts the spotlight back on the case. John, Martin and a new Inspector Sarita Sarkar (Vidya Balan) begin their hunt for the criminal. What is fascinating is that the modus operandi seems to be similar to the Angela case.

Te3n also benefits from first-rate technical inputs. The stunningly effective combined work of cinematographer Tushar Kanti Ray, editor Gairik Sarkar & production designer Tanmay Chakraborty. Background music is also good but the songs sound a little out of sync with Kolkata.

 
Star Peformance:-

Amitabh Bachchan once again has looked brilliant in the movie like in PIKU and WAZIR, I must say as he is growing old, he is doing wonders as an actor. Nawazuddin as Police officer and later as a father is looking good as always but he has some problem with that catholic ascent while performing role of Priest and last but not the least as always Vidya has also played her role with perfection.

Final words:

For the serious movies seekers, the instant movie has something for them. Morever, despite being an average thriller, still is better than many senseless Bollywood movies.

My ratings for this movie is 3 out of 5 stars.

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