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Directed by | Nagesh Kukunoor |
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Written by | Nagesh Kukunoor |
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Cinematography | Vikas Shivraman |
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122 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Budget | ₹600 million (US$8.9 million) |
Box office | ₹125 million (US$1.9 million) |
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Soundtrack album by Salim-Sulaiman, Bohemia & Neeraj Shridhar | ||||
Released | 16 March 2009 | |||
Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
Length | 41:58 | |||
Label | T-Series | |||
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8 x 10 Tasveer (English: 8 x 10 Picture) is a 2009 Bollywood mystery psychological thriller film written and directed by Nagesh Kukunoor, and produced by Percept Picture Company, starring Akshay Kumar and Ayesha Takia Azmi. The film features Sharmila Tagore, Javed Jaffrey, Anant Mahadevan, Girish Karnad, Benjamin Gilani, Rushad Rana, Andrea Tully, and Pia Shah in supporting roles. In March 2008, the cast and crew filmed in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It was previously called Tasveer, but changed due to the director's insistence that the title was jinxed. The film's music is composed by Salim-Sulaiman with a title track by Bohemia.
Jai Puri (Akshay Kumar) is a forest ranger in the woods near Alberta, Canada. Jai lives in a cabin with his girlfriend Sheila (Ayesha Takia Azmi), but has been estranged from his parents, Jatin (Benjamin Gilani) and Savitri Puri (Sharmila Tagore). Jatin is the CEO of a privately held Canadian oil company, Canoil.
Jai has a supernatural gift: he is able to enter a photograph and vividly experience the events preceding the time of the photograph. Jai is unable to understand or explain this gift, except to recall that it started when he was very young. He tries to use this gift to help people, despite the risks to his own body. He can remain in photographs only for a minute, and experiences life-threatening, stroke-like effects afterward.