Click to play videoMumbai: Akshay Kumar’s much-talked movie, 8x10 Tasveer is filmmaker Nagesh Kukunoor biggest film in his decade-long career.
The director whose first film cost him just Rs 17 lakh, 8x10 Tasveer has proved to be really expensive to him. According to the sources, the movie’s cost adds up to over Rs 35 crore.
And the worries increase since the film doesn’t have Akshay in either a comic or a romantic role and is even unlike the regular action masala thrillers he is known to act in. Moreover Kukunoor’s last release Bombay to Bangkok bombed at the box office and his other film Aashayein starring John Abraham is allegedly stuck in the cans because of a disinterest among distributors.
“That you have heard wrong. There are just some unfortunate events that have taken place with Aashayein. We were hoping to release it in September last year, John and I went to shoot also. But then we came back and though we will do it post Dostana. Then it shifted to January but then Percept Company got into a tussle. That got sorted out and now 8x10 Tasveer came,” Kuknoor clarifies.
“It is a movie for which both I and John are really excited but now what we can do is wait for the right time and we are hoping that the right time will come in June,” he added.
Though this time, Kukunoor has spent a real big amount on his project and has involved Bollywood’s A-list actor, but he still believes that bigger is not always better.
“It depends on what you want to do, which makes life easy or not. For example, if I sign another film with an established actor, of course the money is going to flow. But after 8x10 I chose to make Yeh Hosla, a small budget film with Sameera Reddy and Karan Nath, who id a bunch if films earlier but they didn’t really work. That movie required that space, it is as simple as that,” explains Kukunoor.
But going by the filmmaker's track record and especially the soulful Iqbal, it has been proved that small is beautiful.
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