Well few frnds saw 8X10 and they loved the movie..They even told taht a typical Bollywood lover may not like this film as its a fast paced well executed whodunnit and had no bollywood cliche in it... Well i never relied upon rediff n specially this idiot Raja Sen ..moreover its Nagesh kukunoor film who gave us brilliant Iqbal,Dor,3 Deewarein,Rockford so I will definately see 8X10 (n thanks mr Idiot Sen for ur stupid reviews i think i will like this movie more )
Nagesh Kuknoor takes on the thriller genre with 8x10 Tasveer and does a pretty neat job of it for the most part. Till well past the interval, there is little one can find to quibble with the director and his film, but somewhere close to the end, the twist that he adds, seems a little too filmy, as if he had run out of any fresh ideas. It is a twist all right, but seems a little cliched. As for the rest of the film, Kuknoor manages to build up the suspense slowly and surely and the film turns out to be pretty absorbing.
The film is about the story of a forest officer called Jai (Akshay Kumar), who is estranged from his father (Benjamin Gilani), who he loves very much. The feeling is mutual despite both men holding very different views on life. Jai has a gift of being able to get into the immediate past of a person by looking at their picture. This is a gift which often has people coming to him for help to find a missing loved one. But after his father's death, Jai is visited by strange dreams of his father asking him to help. He keeps finding himself drawn to his paternal house, where the last picture of his father, taken just moments before his accidental death, hangs on the wall. According to his father's will, all the property has been left to his mother (Sharmila Tagore), who tells him that his father wanted to leave it to the organization which Jai worked for. His father died in a freak accident aboard his ship, fell into the water
