8 x 10 TASVEER

Nagesh Kukunoor who gave us two back-to-back slices of inspirational cinema in Iqbal and Dor and then burned his hands with comedy Bombay To Bangkok now Nagesh enters a new zone with 8 x 10 TASVEER. Yet, 8 x 10 TASVEER goes wrong, horribly wrong.

8x10 Tasveer is the story of a young man with a unique supernatural gift of looking into the past of dead people. After all, if the hero needs adrenaline to stay alive, we need a shot of caffeine to stay awake. The film’s that bad.








So we have Jai (Akshay Kumar) living in with a girlfriend ( Ayesha Takia ) with whom he shares no apparent chemistry but whom he plans to marry. Jai has a unique gift of looking at people’s photographs and having a vision of the moments after the snap was clicked.

When Jai’s billionaire father (Benjamin Gilani) dies in an accident and a cranked-out detective ( Javed Jaffrey ) shows up and tries to convince Jai that his dead dad was murdered for wealth. This personal tragedy leads him to use his unique supernatural powers to unravel the mystery.

Armed with this photograph into which he keeps ‘going’ repeatedly, Jai digs deeper into the mystery even as the finger of suspicion keeps shifting from his mom and his uncle to two more characters close to his dad. There are so many gaps that remain wide open till the end.

Akshay pitches in a sincere performance. 8 x 10 TASVEER is a complete departure from the kind of films the actor is popular for and it only goes to prove that he's ready to experiment. Ayesha is natural. Sharmila Tagore is graceful. Jaaved Jaaferi is first-rate. Girish Karnad, Benjamin Gilani, Ananth Mahadevan and Rushaad Rana are perfect in their respective roles.


Nagesh Kukunoor seems to have completely lost it this time. As the writer and director of this sleep-inducing, ridiculously contrived film with half-baked subplots, he’s the one on whom the blame should fall squarely.

So many questions beg to be answered. If you are brave to sit awake through two-plus hours of banality. On the whole, 8 x 10 TASVEER disappoints. This tasveer is out of focus!

Aloo Chaat

Robby Grewal's Aloo Chaat is completely a comedy film. The film makes the viewers laugh at times. This film has a simple story told in a very simple way. The story of the film is interesting. The execution of the film brings back the memories of old film Dulhan Wahi Jo Piya Mann Bhaye.








USA returned Nikhil (Aftab Shivdasani) belongs to an orthodox Punjabi family and falls in love with a Muslim girl Aamna (Aamna Shariff) while studying in the US. Nikhil feels hesitant to disclose about his love affair as he knows that his orthodox father Puroshottum (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) will never allow him to marry a girl of another religion.

Desperate to seek a solution, he takes help of his father's best friend Hakim (Manoj Pahwa). Together they plot to bring Nikhil's girlfriend (Aamna Sharif) into the family.

Director Robby Grewal deserves a huge applause for his treatment of the subject and his narrative structure. His choice of actors is bang on with each actor right from Aftab to even the Aloo Chaat seller fitting the bill perfectly.







Acting wise, Aftab has come back after a long gap. His acting is praiseworthy. Acting wise Aamna has a long way to go. Kulbhushan Kharbanda is excellent . Rest of the cast is appriciable. Aloo Chaat the film, is rich in masala. A real tangy chutney treat that you don’t want to miss. It is worth a watch movie.

Rakeysh Mehra's Ode-Delhi6

Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra is undoubtedly one of the finest storytellers that we have around. Delhi 6 is created out of a lot of love and a lot of pain, which comes across in the movie. The movie is produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. The movie was released on February 20, 2009. The film casts Abhishek Bachchan as Roshan, Sonam Kapoor as Bittu who played the lead roles.

The movie makes an interesting start as it introduces multiple characters telling multi-track storytelling. After all, the movie is just a short trip, with a bit of sight-seeing thrown in. The middle part of the movie is difficult to understand that what’s the central lead is all about. However, it resolves all above conflicts in a single-stroke climax.

The core theme appears to be similar like Swades. While the screenplay remains cheerful in the first half. The art direction decently recreates the Delhi set in Rajasthan studio but is confined to four lanes at the Chandni Chowk crossroads.

The better performances come from the character-artist cast of Deepak Dobriyal, Atul Kulkarni, Vijay Raaz, Pawan Malhotra and Om Puri. Rishi Kapoor is pleasing but his character is too short-lived.

Rakeysh Mehra has connected very well with the audiences through his mesmerizing storytelling in Rang De Basanti . Sadly, Delhi-6 is quite colourless in that contrast.

Also, the end of the film, somehow does not seem to settle very well. The film, is in short, Rakeysh Mehra's ode to Delhi.

Meri Padosan

Meri Padosan, latest release of the week, is based on same old toipc Padosan. Bollywood has already made many movie on the same storyline. The movie is low budget film which does not have a huge star cast.

Meri Padosan is a story of a struggling director Shyam Gopal Varma who who is neighbour of sweet couple Viju (Sanjay Mishra) and Kavita(Sadhika Randhawa). Shayam lives with his two friends Prem and aslam. By profession, Vijju is a clerk and Kavita take care of his home as a house wife. Both Vijju and Kavita live happily.

One day, Shayam sees a vacancy in newspaper for director.This vacancy is all about to give a story on which a movie can be made. Shayam gets haapy by read it. He goes to the channel company where several struggling director has already submitted their story. Shayam also submit his application. Now, he starts to think about the movie i.e what type of story would be and how is to be shoot? Suddenly, he sees outside of the window, where Vijju and kavita shows their love to each other. Shyam notices that there is a lovely chemistry going on between them and thinks that this can be a really nice story. So he starts working on the project with out telling to anybody. Then, few of turns come in his way which makes his condition more worst.
The movie has not great expectations from audience.

Kambakht Ishq- remake of Pammal K. Sambandam

Akshay Kumar starrer new upcoming movie Kambakht Ishq is remake of tamil film "Pammal K. Sambandam" which was relesed in year 2002. The movie was biggest hit in 2002. The movie stars Kamal Haasan, Simran Bagga, Sneha, Abbas, and Ramesh Khanna. In the tamil movie, kamal hasan played a role of stunt master where as in Kambakht Ishq the same role is done by Akshay Kumar. On the other hand, Simran, a sworn spinster is replaced by Kareena Kapoor in Hindi version who is a a super model. Other cast of the movie includes Aaftab Shivdasani, Amrita Arora and Dara Singh.Sajid paid Rs. 75 lakh for gaining the remaking rights. The movie is directed by new debutant Saabir Khan. It is said to have cost over Rs. 60 crore. Incidentally, the movie’s release has been postponed due to the face-off between multiplexes and producers/distributors. Instead of 29th May, it may now come in August or July.

Tasveer 8X10 - Biggest flop so far

As the four months have been passed of the current year and many movies have been released in this four months. But Akshay Kumar's TASVEER 8X10 has proven to be a biggest flop of the year as yet. In the first week, film has gatherd less than 8 crores at the box office. If we compare this Nagesh Kukunoor film with some other movies that have released this year, it only paints a sorry picture. Only RAAZ - THE MYSTERY CONTINUES and DEV D has left the impact on the audience and become two successful films of the year so far. RAAZ - THE MYSTERY CONTINUES and Dev D had earned 20 crores and 8.5 crores respectively in their opening week. But Tasveer 8X10 is at the bottom among all the flop in the current year like LUCK BY CHANCE (10.5 crores), BILLU BARBER (18 crores), DELHI 6 (22 crores), CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA (26 crores). Before this movie, Akshay Kumar has given another flop CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA to industry. But CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA was much better condition then Tasveer 8X10. Thus, movie breaks all the records at box office this current year!!

Preview - Jashn

In this word, everybody is nobody but everybody wants to be somebody. That's all about is Jashn. Jashn is a story Akasah verma, a 20 years old guy who wants to be a Singing icon among all the star singers. But there is a saying as "There is a way where is the will", which happens with Akash (Adhyayan Suman). Initally, Akash has his own dreams in his heart but he is unable to identifu its own core talent. Although, Akash's sister, Nisha (Shahana Goswami) provides him all the facility which satisfy one in all perspactive of life. Nisha got married to rich businessman, Aman Bajaj (Humayun Saeed). Akash hates Aman alot although he mentors him. but there is a person who really understand Akash and makes him comfertable who is Aman's sister Sara (Anjana Sukhani). Sara makes him realize that he is an extremely talented man who is simply going through a bad phase and that the biggest crime a human being can commit, is to give up on himself. Sara's genuine love and support helps Akash a lot to discover his own talent. through Sara's true love he not only touches his inexhaustible potential and becomes an overnight star but also brings dignity to his beleaguered sister, humbles his biggest detractor Aman Bajaj and in the process, lives up to the faith that Sara had in him all along. Jashn will release on 29 April 2009.

Tasveer 8X10 makes no impact at box office

Before the release of Tasveer 8X10, People had huge expectations with Akshay kumar starrer Tasveer 8X10 but the movie has failed to make impact at box office. With Tasveer 8X10, Akki makes hattrick of flop movies. Other two movies are Jumbo which was released in 2008 and Chandni Chowk to China released in earlier of this year.

With the movie Nagesh Kukunoor wanted to enter in new zone but unfortunetly he did not get success. Sakshi Mehra, president of the Motion Pictures Association of Delhi-Uttar Pradesh, said that the reaction to Tasveer 8X10 is not at all up to the mark. It is in fact very disappointing. Neither the public reaction nor the collections are good — considering the fact that it is an Akshay Kumar starrer and that it opened as a solo release over a long weekend due to Ram Navami.

The box office report for the movie says that the movie collects around 5-6 crores over the weekend and heading for a final collection of not more than 8-10 crores, making it a flop for superstar Akshay Kumar. A PVR official said that the collection of the movie is quite slow. Tasveer 8X10 is a movie of a guy who has got some supernatural power to see past. Other then akki, movie also stars Ayesha Takia, Sharmila Tagore, Javed Jaffery, Girish Karnad, Anant Mahadevan and Benjamin Gilani in pivotal roles.

“The film is dull and shatters all hopes from a director like Nagesh Kukunoor. People had high expectations from the film, as it was after a long gap that a big-budget movie was hitting the screens but it all went wrong,” said an industry source from Mumbai.

Tasveer 8x10 - Music review

After the heart trob music of Fasion, music director Salim and Sulaiman again making their presence in new movie Tasveer 8x10 which is suspense thriller. The music album of the movie contains 10 numbers including 5 original numbers and 5 remix numbers.

The very first song of album is "Nazaara Hai" which sung by vishal (Vishal - Shekher). Irfan Siddiqui has written the lyrics of the song. This song gives the felling of rock music as the beats are some sort of high - low combination. The break in the song is the best part of the song.

'Haafiz Khuda' is the next song in the album Tasveer 8x10. This song is comperatively slow the first one. This song is sung by Mohit Chauhan and Tulsi Kumar. Again Irfan Siddiqui has given the words for the song. This song definatly gonna hit the chart busters.

Now, its time for Neeraj Shridhar who sung the next treck "Aaja Maahi". Tulsi Kumar also joins Neeraj in the song. The song gives the western flavour to its listener. The music of the song is pretty melodious.

Now, come to the title treck "I got a picture" which is sung by US hip hop artist Bohemia. It is the same way that is tried in Sing is king and Chandni Chowk to china. The song is complete combination of Hindi and English which gives the indian flaover with western fregnence.

Next and the last song in the album is "Kuch is Tarah" which is another slow song in the album sung by Mohit Chauhan. It gives the same feeling as Haafiz Khuda.

Apart from all songs, each song has its remix in the Tasveer 8x10. DJ Amyth has done four of them, and Bohemia has remixed his own song.

Sikander releases on 24 April

The story of the forthcoming movie resolves around a 14 year old boy Sikander raza who live in Kashmir. Sikander has lost his parents 10 years back. Now, after his parents, his uncle and aunt take care him. All Sikandar's desires revolve around the happiness of his foster parents and his fevourite sports Football. One day, on his way home from a school football match, Sikandar finds a gun lying on the path. Despite admonishments by his newly made school friend, the 14 year old Nasreen, Sikandar picks up the gun, and thus begins a journey into the darker side of his nature. Now, at this point movie brings twist in the story. The quiet yet strong Nasreen becomes Sikandar's conscience keeper. She tries to dissuade him from giving in to the lure of the gun. However, all is not what it seems. Sikandar gets embroiled further and further in situations beyond his control, and people get killed. At first it seems that the happenings occurring alongside Sikandar's predicament are not connected. But, as layer upon layer unravels, it becomes clear that Sikandar is the innocent victim in a game being played out between the militants, the army, the peace bartering politicians and the religious heads of the little Kashmiri town. The movie also starcast Sanjay Suri and Madhvan. Sikander releases on April 14, 2009.