TE3N review: The plot of this Big B, Nawazuddin starrer has too much fuzz
Remember that reasonably engrossing Hollywood thriller Se7en, in which two sleuths go looking for a serial killer with a thing for the seven deadly sins?
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TE3N gimmicks its name similarly and gives us three characters in search of a criminal, but it doesn’t borrow any of the smarts from the Hollywood film. This official remake of a Korean mystery with a kidnapping and a death at its heart is a sluggish drag for the most part, brightened only occasionally by a scene or a line.
Bachchan plays John, an elderly man still stunned by grief, eight years after the death of a little girl. He will continue to search for the person who caused it, despite being dissuaded by people all around him : wheelchair-bound wife ( Padmavati Rao), sympathetic policewoman Sarita ( Balan), and cop-turned-priest Father Martin ( Nawaz). He will persist with his dogged pursuit for justice and truth whatever happens. (PHOTOS : Amitabh Bachchan, Vidya Balan at TE3N press meet)
A fresh kidnapping turns on the spotlight on the old case again, and as new clues come to light, John’s search acquires an intensity and purpose, and we sense, as he does, the coming of an end which will lead to some answers and a sort of peace.
