8 X 10 Tasveer | Movie Review
8X10 Tasveer deals with a special power of Akshay Kumar to go through the images, and see what happened just after the image was clicked.
Synopsis: Jai Puri (Akshay Kumar) is an EPS (Environment Protection Service) officer in Canada. Living with his GF, Sheela (Ayesha Takia) having a extraordinary superficial power of seeing what happened after a photograph was clicked.
Every thing goes fine until, one day His father Jatin Puri (Benjamin Gilani) dies in an accident on his yatch. Now enters a private detective Habibullah Pasha (Jawed Jafferi) who doubts that it was a murder. This doubt, in addition to Dreams, Provokes Jai to find out the truth.
So he decides to go inside th elast clicked 8X10 picture of his father and 3 others [Adit ( Rushaad Rana), Anil Sharma (Girish Karnard), Sundar Puri (Anant Madhavan)]. Once he goes in to the past, he finds evidences of the murder. The doubts all 3 business partners of his dad, as well as his mother Savita puri ( Sharmila tagore) too. but the twists and tangles make the story more interesting, and then he begins his chase of the murderer.
Performances: Akshay Kumar, has once again given a brilliant performance. He as a owner of super natural power, and a Ranger of EPS, done his job perfectly. Aayesha Takia has been roped for a perfect role of a caring lover. Jawed Jaffery Needs a special mention for his role of a cleanliness obsessed, private detective who behaves very awkwardly. Sharmila Tagore was good after so many years. I think last saw her in Aamir khan starrer, Mann.
Others, Benjamin Gilani, Girish Karnad, Anant Mahadevan, Rushaad Rana, are just small characters but they have done nothing less than the lead actors. Over all performace of the actors in the movie is very good.
Music: The music and background score of the movie is by Salim Suleiman. Although the songs of the movie are not a hit, and not even hummable, the background score of the movie is good and keeps the pace up, all through the movie. The title song Nazara hai is nice. The main attraction is the rap song which comes at last.
Direction: Nagesh Kukunoor has always shown his skill as director right from the Hyderabad Blues to Rockford to Teen Deewarien. He has been an excellent story teller. and this time too he has proved it. He has made a slick, stylish film, which can be in some cases compared to hollywood movies. At some points it even is equivalent to M Night Shyamalan’s Thrillers/horrors.
The special effects used in movie are of the supreme standards. Some of the stunts such as jumping from the cliff, underwater sequences are mind blowing. The effects showing Akshay Kumar going back to history are good, where as the ending scene where the main killer and akshay kumar come face to face are awesome!! (The mail killer has been not disclosed to avoid the spoiler!!)
Over all the film is must watch, if you want to have a taste of a good Indian Thriller movie.
I would rate it 4 out of 5.
Deepika Padukone is good. The chinese one looks like Esha Deol. Is it cos, both are south Indinas ?? ( 
bad joke!! ). Other actors like, Mithun, Roger Yuan (as Inspector) are good. Ranvir Shourie as Guruji has been given a good share of screen, and he delivers well. The Character of Hojo was not well defined. Music, good background score, ok ok songs. Phatte Chak de is good one. Kudos to Kailash Kher. All seems good, but where did it lacked?? 
