8 x 10 Tasveer – A gripping thriller

Production: Percept Picture Company

Direction: Nagesh Kukunoor

Star-casts: Akshay Kumar, Ayesha Taakia, Sharmila Tagore, Javed Jaffrey, Girish Karnad and many others.

Music: Salim-Sulaiman, Neeraj, Bohemia

When Akshay is on the grand stands, what do you expect from him? A grandiloquent stunt, crème de la crème comedies, sizzling romance and what else? Maybe, you would perceive him to be adhered with such formulas with his previous films. But now, here’s something different that Akshay Kumar spells completely different here. It’s a suspense-thriller about a murder mystery.

So what does our protagonist has in aid to unravel the mystery. As you anticipated, there’s a goodwill cop but there’s something more than that. Yeah! It’s all about his supernatural sense about visualizing the death scene of the individuals once he touches their articles is photographs.

Well, over there 8 x 10 is all about a photograph that reveals about a person unraveling the mystery with the help of a photograph.

‘8X10 Tasveer’ is a story about young man named Jai Puri, (Akshay Kumar), who possesses supernatural powers. Jai is of Indian origin who works as a forest ranger in Canada. His life is shattered by a loss of a very important person in his life, his father (Benjamin Gilani). This personal tragedy leads him to use his unique supernatural power to unravel the mystery behind the murder. ‘8x10’ is supernatural thriller with a nail biting finish to come up with startling answers.

It’s out most a Hollywood sort of suspense-thriller, where you don’t happen to heed for unnecessary background scores alarming here and there. Indeed, for a psychological-thriller, technical aspects go in hand for making for a better show. Sivaraman’s camera work top notches on all aspects where he captures the spellbinding locales of Canada and South Africa. Editing is so sleek and stylish.

Nagesh Kukunoor who earlier made merely entertainers has geared up for an extremely a different pattern. That’s good to watch for a time and enjoy sitting back. But what goes wrong in the midst of show is that Nagesh stumbles down penning a gripping screenplay that loses pace. Also when the black culprit as well the intentions of murders are revealed, it’s not easy to consume.

Akshay Kumar is best on his show of performance; Ayesha is up the mark while Sharmila is graceful. Javed Jaffrey steals the show.

On the whole, ‘8 x 10 Tasveer’ is a top notching supernatural thriller that captures our interest and you will feel it worth watching.

Verdict: Watch it once

Richard Mahesh