Movie Review : 8 X 10 Tasveer

When the movie director is Nagesh Kukunoor, expectation increases. How can one forget Iqbal, Dor, 3 Deewarein, Hyderabad Blues and my fav, Rockford. At the same time I don’t want to remember the movie “Bombay to Bangkok” which had nothing remarkable.

Nagesh came back this year with “8 X 10 Tasveer”. It’s a story of a middle age Man, Jay. Jay has a Girlfriend with whom he is in Live-in relation, his mom, dad. A small family. Though he never liked his father’s business (I still don’t know what business his father had). He had something more with him, a supernatural power. Show him a picture and he can see the 1minute post facto incidence with any of the person’s eye, who was captured in the camera.

Picture turned when jay’s father dies when he was in a cruise ship with his wife and other business partner. Doctors told that it was a heart attack followed by drowning. Though Jay’s father was good swimmer and he left the entire will on his wife’s name (who was present in the cruise). Jay considered it as accident and forget.

Again story turns when Jay keep seeing a dream in his father asked him to help him plus an inspector (Javed Jeffery) tells him that his father might get murdered. Thankfully they had a picture in cruise, just before his father dies. Jay goes again in the picture and realizes that it wasn’t a mere accident, someone was defiantly fishy there. He tries finding the secret which result a killing attempt on him and his wife. Still Jay tries finding the secret and here we comes in the end, with a secret reveling reel.

When it comes to acting, according to me except Sharmila Tagore (Jay’s Mom) and Javed Jeffery (Happi with an “I”), no one did the justice with acting. Yes, you got it right, not even Akshay Kumar. There was no action sequence too, which I was expecting.

How about story and suspense maintaining? OK, I guess I have seen enough and I got it in the 30minutes. But Nagesh succeeded in maintaining the same. At the same time there was enough homework done in linking the story with different parts. Only problem was, there was nothing special in the story.

If you want to see beautiful location (including Jay’s parents’ home) and any kind of murder mystery, Congrts, you will get something, but if you ask from a Great mystery and Good acting, my suggestion don’t go for it. Nothing very fascinating here….

Rating: 2.5/5

Straight (2009)(Hindi)-- Movie Review

Story:
Movie started when Vinay Pathak was moving to India to get married and later his fiancé ditched him. He came back and said that he got married but because of the visa problem his wife will come late. Dramatically Anuj Choudhary and Gul Panag get entry in his restaurant first and then in his heart. He found a good pal in Anuj and love in Gul.

Now what so strange in it?? Well… movie is not yet over, even it’s not even time for intermission. Vinay picked one lottery for Anuj, and Anuj won that. He was so happy that he smooched Vinay (yes, you read it right!! The first ever male to male smooch in the movie as I understand Dostana’s smooch was camera effect). Now it was a question for Vinay regarding his orientation as he was still virgin. He didn’t want to be called Gay. He started ignoring Anuj. He tried to get hooked u with a girl who was mad for him for some fun, but he couldn’t and that makes him more conscious. He tried having tablets, but all in vein. Gradually his feelings towards gay people changed and he learned that it’s wrong to refuse your love.

What happened next?? Well, you have to go for the movie for it…

Review:
It was second movie of Parvati Balgopalan as director after Rules: Pyaar ka Superhit formula and she did a commendable job when it comes to male’s orientation related issues. Vinay and Gul were good in their work, as usual. Anuj came with a fresh face and he did proper justice with his role. Ketki Dave was again in her Gujju Ishtyle.
Dostana released recently on the same subject. If ask me to compare, I would say, Dostana was having good humor and it was funny movie but when it comes to the subject, Straight did the proper justice.
Straight could have been better at some point. Some more reels required to portray Vinay’s relation with Gul and his cousin and about gay community, which could take it to new heights.
Music was good, especially the lyrics, “Humse Jo Churaye Humko hi, Usko hi kahte hai Tanhaayi” were simply awesome. My suggestion , go for it for a light entertainment with a new subject.
Rating : 3.5/5