

Here the lights are dim and bylanes eerie and empty. You can’t doubt his good manners, but there’s something which makes you wary of him. Here’s a sad, strong- willed Kolkata guy who is polite yet firm in his approach. NJohn Biswas’ long face and hunched walk make an impression the moment he appears onscreen.

Watch: Amitabh Bachchan in the song Haq Hai from TE3. It becomes a speculation game where you compare your theories about the next scene. Though Dasgupta takes the audience straight to the scene of the crime, he doesn’t offer see- through solutions. He begins to probe into the matter but a police officer Sarita (Vidya Balan) and a pastor Martin Das (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) can make his task easy. It leaves the child’s justice- seeking grandfather John Biswas (Bachchan) in lurch, but he won’t accept defeat without a fight. TE3N is a slow burning suspense thriller made in the vein of classic whodunits but with conscious efforts to neatly package it as a modern day murder mystery. Amitabh's superlative form is just one of the incentives to watch it. TE3N catches you by the neck and keeps you engrossed till the end credits.The disappearance of an abducted child.Still desperate to find his granddaughter nearly a decade after her kidnapping, a devoted grandfather chases a dangerous new lead. Read: When Amitabh Bachchan’s song was dismissed as horrible by TE3. An eight- year- old girl is kidnapped and the police are clueless, because what looks like an ordinary crime turns out to be a meticulously planned abduction. N is the sum of this riveting combination, made more powerful by one of Amitabh Bachchan’s finest performances. A grieving grandfather, a crumbling city and a sarcastic cop- turned- priest: Director Ribhu Dasgupta’s TE3. NCast: Amitabh Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Vidya Balan. Te3n has an entire sequence that plays out in one.
