8 xTasveer EnglishxPicture is a 2009 Bollywood 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, Canada. It was previously called Tasveer, but changed due to the directors insistence that the title was jinxed. The films music is composed by SalimSulaiman with a title track by Bohemia.
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 lifethreatening, strokelike effects afterward.Jais father drowns in a boating accident under mysterious circumstances. Jatin was aboard his own boat, the Golmaal, and was surrounded by his wife his brother, Sunder Anant Mahadevan longtime friend and lawyer Anil Girish Karnad and Adit Rushad Rana, Jatins surrogate son. Eccentric former cop Hapibulla Happi Pasha Jaaved Jaaferi, who suffers from OCD, believes Jatin may have been murdered, and that everyone on the boat at that time may have had a motive. The only clue is an 8x10 photograph of the four men, which Savitri shot a few moments before Jatin fell off the boat and had a hypothermiainduced heart attack. ........
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