detailed plot of 8x10 tasveer

akshay kumar who potrays the role of jai is shown to work in an orgainization called EPS or environment protection service. he is quite popular in his workplace as he is quite adept at nabbing the violators and perpetyrators of environment laws. he knows the place at the tips of his fingers. he also helps people find their beloved as he can move into photographs by looking at them for some time. but whenever he does so his condition becomes comatose. he then gets to know about the demise of his father. he is told that the reason of his death was a severe heart attack due to which he drowned in the sea whilst on a boat alongwith his close friends and wife. so the reason seems plausible to him and he consents and agrees to his death. but he is told by javed jaffari who is a sleuth called "happy with an i". he brings about intermittent and sporadic laughter in the muvee. but akshay is told dat jaffery is a former toronto police officer who ran away from his place so as a consequence akshay shoos jaffery away. but when akshay cums across a picture taken at the time of his father's death he comes to know that something is fishy. he then goes through the picture again and again over the next few days and cums to know that he was killed as a part of a bigger conspiracy connived by many of his fathers' friends to channelise the bequeathed money of his father who had noted in his will that he will give all his money to akshay.he then sees some one mixing high blood pressure pilss in his father's champagne then akshay goes to various friends of his father who he thinks might be involved. strange events follow. one of the friends whom he sees as the killer gets killed at his home when he finds his body hanging from a ceiling at his room. the fathers' oder frenz appear to be thjen trying to kill akshay as he is a danger looming large at them and who threatens to unveil them. then he comes to suspect that his mother was also involved as she is shown romancing with a friend of his father and earlier failed to give nod for her husband's death. then some attempts to kill him are made which his wife ayesha takia condemns. she tells akshay to stop getting into pictures and behave eclectically. then he takes help of javed jaffrey's ex who is a qualified nurse. she tyells him that his goin into pictures may threaten his life and that he needed adrenalin injections after each of his journeys into d pics.he is told by a soothsayer that he will be dead if a picture which he is moving in gets abandoned and that if he stays for more than 1 minute in d pic he will certainly die. he continues his tryst with moving in the pictures by staring at them for a few seconds.he comes to know that there is a killer who killed his fathers' friend whom he finalized earilier as a prime suspect and he also comes to realise that his mother who will be signing on the will which is to ratify her approval to transfer all d money she has got as part of her husband's will has a threat to her life. he jets to his home where his mother is and finds someone in the house who kills her mother. he runs after the suspect but to no avail. he again stares at the picture taken minutes before his father's demise and this time he does it for more than 1 minute. he discovers his face in the lower compartment of the ship while his father is drowning after he has drunk the beer mixed with blood pressure pills. then a person is shown who comes to akshay who is in unconscious state and into the photo. he is the serial killer. he puts the photo on fire as he knew that if the photo thru which akshay is going thru is abandoned he will die immediately. then we are shown that there is a second akshay called jeet. he cums out to be the estranged brother of him who 1st akshay ie jai had by mistake pushed atop a rock in deir childhood. the second akshay we are told hatched whole of this story alongwid ayesha takia who was wid akshay 1 all dis while.the second akshay tells dat he is avenging all dis due to the childhood incident. den javed jaffrey rings the bell and he discovers that there are 2 akshays in d room both calling them as akshay 1. but when he discovers who the real akshay is ayesha takia kills him. den akshay 2 and takia celebrate as all d money has been transferred to akshay 1's account whom he will impersonate in order to take the money. he then takes akshay 1 to the same ship where hsi father was killed. he throws a comatose akshay 1 to the sea. but from somewhere akshay 1 gets a second wind and swims back to the ship and secretly cums to kill both takia and the villainious akshay. den happy ending is shown.