TE3N - Movie Review

TE3N is directed by Ribhu Dasgupta, with the lead cast of Amitabh Bachchan, Vidya Balan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. A broken soul looking for justice, Amitabh Bachchan, the acting maestro strikes with a gripping performance in this weak movie script. A grieving grandfather sparks an emotional lifestyle that the family faces through the consequences. The first half has a steady pace by giving us more of the devastated grandfather whilst the second half tends to be much higher tempo with suspense building up towards the conclusion

POSITIVES

•  What stands out the most firstly is the performance of the leading stars. With fine performers up against each other, the film was primed to showcase a spectacle. In TE3N we get exactly that with another praiseworthy and likeable performance by Amitabh Bachchan who manages to deliver a packed performance. 
• The film had the suspense visible most of the times. It keeps you guessing, wanting to know the unfolding of a kids abduction. Whilst the story gives little away throughout, turning this into an eye catching movie. The strategic influence behind finding the culprit is quiet engaging, keeping you glued to the screen.

NEGATIVES

• The film does become a drag at parts, stretching heavily but despite this being a drawback, it still never keeps your attention away from the screen. You want to continue to watch further and find the truth. But with a crisper and more finesse towards the writing department, this film could have been much more edgy and intense than what it already was to a certain degree.
•  Once again, a film with a concept of police force being utilised fails to show realism. The lack involvement of police officers to help fight the case and solve the mystery is neglected, leading to failure to succeed in certain scenarios in the movie. This is not a major factor to the final climax but as a viewing experience it becomes less believable.
• The film also lacked visual creativity, in particularly with the flashback scenes where it needed to be more gripping. It did not captivate that intensity the film was trying to portray. The actors do their bit in carrying the burdens of flashbacks on their shoulders but the screenplay itself falters. Also the lack of high exposures during the investigation scenes, they were not enthralling enough.
• What also is a major let down with the film is the dialogues, not being the best one-liners that as an audience you can recall as the stand out ones. They very pretty average, not really noteworthy.

CAST

• AMITABH BACHCHAN à A striking performance, leaves you giving sympathy to this grieving grandfather as well as admiring such fine acting abilities, which never can be questioned. He brings that fragile inclusion, makes the tense build up seem realistic through his semi-slow and weak body language.
• NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI à Almost coming out of his shell. He starts of dull, not really up to it within this edgy dark film. But once coming in the scene along with Vidya Balan, he becomes more interacted but it doesn’t really bring the best out of him, as we know how good his capabilities are.
• VIDYA BALAN à Plays the detective thinking officer but such role for a female would require a substantially prominent role to be played on screen. I felt that was missing with Vidya, she did a good job but not quite eye-catching of a female officer trying to be a dominant one.

RATING 

Overall we rate TE3N a rating of 3/5. TE3N keeps you indulged in this suspenseful film and seeing Amitabh Bachchan on-screen, makes you feel sad for him, keeping you attached to the film till the very end. A fragile man giving his all in fighting for justice, the movie has a bit of everything but not the finished package. There are flaws with it and that never does justice to a good concept that needs a perfection type of execution. That was lacking evidently, there were glimpses of the film being a strong production, if only everything went as fine as the suspenseful build up.