Nishabd

Amitabh can really act but i must admit that he's role in the movie might jeopardise he's  respect as a man and elder in society.please dont misjugde him. he brings out a trend in society thats catching on if left unchecked. a 60yr old man with an 18yr old gal especially a girl brought home by his own daughter(in the movie that is)? its unfortunate that this is what some men who have wifes n children r doing and society needs to strongly condemn the practice.however i am glad that this devil(theme of the movie) has finally been brought out in the open n people will b able to c whats happening and that women will now b more cautious when they c thoses innocent looking girls being very close to their husbands. they should be able to smell the coffee after watching this. however its not suitable to watch with children.

Even as I begin to write this, I ask myself, ? Do we really need to take Nishabd seriously? It?s unconventional storyline ? that of a sixty year old falling in love with an eighteen year old ? is the next bold theme from the Bollywood dream factory. But, you can?t take this movie as dealing with a bold and/or unconventional theme. In my opinion, the movie assaults our imagination by going beyond artistic, if not moral sensibilities. Nishabd is a morality play and we, as a society, would do better if we treat it that way. I am personally appalled at the central thesis of the movie, let alone its Freudian subtext. I wonder what our children make out of this film. Even if one is not planning to watch the movie, the ?promos? are all over the place and you get to see it (and so do our children) even if you don?t want to. I think, we should not let this one go without a protest and so I write. The idea of a sixty year old falling for an eighteen year old, let alone his daughter?s friend, is ridiculous. There?s no nice way to say this. It looks like both RGV and Amitabh are testing a private theory in public space. The movie is supposedly about ?pure? love but it has only become a vehicle for displaying the female body image. It is not just the ?age-factor? here that is ?ridiculous? but rather the blurring of personal moral fences and the consequent collapse of familial relationships. RGV?s creative intent has shades of American Beauty and Lolita (1997) but thankfully we are saved the disgust of pedophilia (maybe only because we aren?t ready for it as yet). In /Lolita/, Humbert is a middle-aged sexual pervert who romances a twelve-year-old girl. In /American Beauty/, Lester?s crush for his daughter?s friend is to escape the drudgery of life. In /Nishabd/, we are not told why the sixty-year-old Vijay gets involved with Jiah ? his daughter?s friend. It is unfortunate that Ram Gopal Verma does not deal with the social and the psychological motives for this ?destructive? love (but for political correctness we can as well call it lust). Why would the sixty-year-old Vijay fall for his daughter?s friend? If we go strictly by the storyline, the attraction is not physical/sexual. You can?t blame Jiah entirely. Vijay is not a sexual pervert. We are told that some love stories are never meant to be understood. The question is, ? Do we understand what love is in the first place? Agreed, Vijay is not physically/sexually attracted to Jiah. But, you can?t deny the metaphorical sexual situations. Even as audiences slowly identify with Vijay?s vulnerabilities, RGV provides fodder for the male fantasy with the power of the visual. In fact, the physical/sexual motive is brought through the viewer?s perspective. Vijay?s ?feelings? extend beyond the film and this may set an unhealthy trend. What if audiences transform the ?reel? experience into ?real? life? Sexual abuse of younger women, particularly of teenage girls, is commonplace (remember the horrific Nithari killings). /Nishabd/ only advances a potentially dangerous idea. I think we must see/ /it for what it is (and what it?s worth). It is a movie about inner struggles of a reclusive individual, his guilt trap and the consequent loss of life. Vijay is led to believe that ?real? life is elsewhere ? outside a tried and tested marriage and trusted familial relationships. Blame it on Jiah but the loss of life is his own making. Vijay suffers from a perceived loss of life. He misses something and Jiah is supposedly the answer to the meaningless of life. But, why do we have to be constantly told that life (and love) tends to go stale within the confines of traditional/conventional marriage? Karan Johar?s /Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna/ (KHNK) also dealt with same theme. Nishabd, unlike KHNH, deals with the theme of finding ?true? love when you are happily married. Can we name Vijay?s feeling for Jiah as love? Is it a late-in-life infatuation or disguised flirtation (or both)? A thoughtless ?follow-your-own-heart? approach entraps him in a self-perpetuating guilt cycle. Vijay, like most of us, does not realize ?feelings? can be self-destructive. Vijay?s feelings for Jiah destroy him as much as it tears apart the once happy family. Vijay is unable to handle the guilt as much as he is unable to handle his vulnerability and he is driven to consider suicide. Worse, he decides to spend the rest of his life with memories of Jiah. There is no need to be caught in the guilt trap and live your life as a prisoner of your fantasy. What does it take to start life all over again? Vijay desperately needs to forgive himself, as much he needs to be forgiven ? by his daughter and wife. It is here that he falters. Vijay confides with his wife his feelings for Jiah but does not feel sorry for betraying their trust and for severing their relationships. Rather than seeking new life he decides to be drowned in guilt. I would have asked him to watch /Shall we dance?/ (2004) and may be Vijay can take a cue from John Clark (played by Richard Gere) on how he transformed his life as well as his marriage. It is unfortunate that Vijay does not seek to transcend and redeem an otherwise meaningless life. He prefers to treat the symptoms rather than deal with the disease itself. Vijay perfectly symbolizes our societal predicament. Bollywood can function either as a smokescreen or as a mirror. /Nishabd/ works both ways. In Vijay, everyman finds himself. We are reminded of our desires, our inner struggles, our vulnerabilities, our fragility and our fantasies. If we are honest with ourselves, it isn?t easy to point our finger at Vijay. We live in a world of images. We also seek images to feed our fantasies (be it the reel world or in the real world). We turn to the Internet, magazines and movies to play out our fantasies. Few like Vijay get to deal with the vulnerabilities in real life. The film not only points a finger at its audiences but it also raises questions: How do we deal with our ?feelings?? How do we play out our fantasies? How do we decide between right and wrong? How do we cope with the perceived loss of life? The answers we bring to these questions will determine the future course of our society. /Nishabd/ has sparked a debate. But, it is surely an opportunity for surgical intervention. Hopefully, the debate will lead us to the diagnosis of our societal dis-ease.

Nishabd

(ps. I have just seen the last 8 minutes of the movie – so am writing what I understood in short. Don't mind folks ! our local cable-wala never lets us know what surprise he has in store for us for the evening – so I missed the major part of this most controversial movie)

Means - Spellbound.

Well, yet again a movie has been launched where Indians are seen talking about it in hushed tones ! Now what's such a big deal – huh folks !?

At least in this movie, Vijay (60 yrs old) is shown having a mental affinity for Jia(18 yrs old) [ps. Whether they have any physical intimacy or not is not known to me – sorry]. There is another Bollywood movie – ‘ Split Wide Open' where a 65 years old man gets a 12-13 years old girl – selling flowers on the street - and makes her render ‘sexual services' for him. She was flat chested and had not even developed breasts – something which men like to maul – but still the old ,pervert, frustrated man brings her to his house and probably was making her do things which gives ‘debauch' men immense pleasure …..like there was a scene where both the old haggard man & the 12 years old girl come out wrapped in a towel after a bath ! So you can well understand folks – what /how the ‘pervert bastard' was using her !In this movie itself – the pervert old bastard is caught red handed by his daughter and she unbuttons her shirt in front of her father and kind of asks him when she has such ‘big boobs' and when things are available for him at home – why was he looking elsewhere !? She also indicates something like – is that the reason that his wife (her mother ie.) committed suicide?!- which probably meant the his wife – who had once ‘jumped nude on bed' with him, and sung yesteryear romantic songs for him - could not tolerate the fact that at ripe old age , she has a 12 years old – flat chested ,illiterate and uncouth street girl as her competitor !!

Well well – with such a kind of movie already released in India – why should ‘Nishabd' become so controversial?!

Anyways, lessons learnt from Nishabd :

This fact has been made very clear by men all over the World – and , in fact, poor men have tried their level best to let women – all over the World - know that they like to have ‘sex' with younger, sexier girls …but still the absolutely idiotic females accept total loyalty and chastity from her husband !! Men – all over the world have more or less established the fact that given half a chance, they will ‘jump nude on bed' with any available whore !

Most TV channels and movies are showing semi nude Item Girls gyrate on the pole – and not a single man has ever been seen revolting against it – WHY? Simple reason – they need to see such ‘sexy bodies' to be able to perform ‘sex' on their respective wives ! Especially average Indian women are short, dark and ugly but Men are exposed to such sexy pieces all the time on Billboards, magazine covers and TV screens !- So ?! they have grown up masturbating on their thoughts – how do ugly women expect them to get turned on by their ugly, dark, unwaxed bodies?! I must say – hats off to virile Indian men for being able to keep up both the Home front and the Whore front functional ! Just imagine how Indian men work day and night under so much pressure and responsibility !? Visiting the brothel, humping the whore and making her pregnant for his son and son's friends to come and being able to enjoy ‘sex' with ‘his daughter born to the whore' once he grows up. Plus come back home and ‘jump nude on bed' with wife and mandatory-ly make her pregnant so that a son is born to look after the ‘sex'needs of his ‘sibling born to the whore'….I mean look at the complexity of life ! and here we have Management Gurus screaming at the top of their voices to ‘Just chill' !! With so many responsibilities on head – how can Indian men ever ‘chill' ?! Thus Indian is always seen having heated arguments all the time…

In fact in Bengal it's a very common occurrence in mediocre households that males ‘happily' hump their maid servants – I mean sons and fathers both use the services of the same maid servant and buys her an egg roll or something in return. I think this way Bengali men are more intelligent – having a ‘whore maid' right in the house and the dumb wife does not even come to know of it !! And because he gets his ‘sex' pleasures at home itself – the outsiders think that ‘such men are satisfied with so little' !!

Therefore folks ! Nishabd does not come to me as some great revelation or a shock ! With several Item Girl numbers and cheap music videos openly available in the market – such ‘derogatory' affinities of men is not a news factor at all ! That is why its called Kalyug.

After effects of Nishabd :

Now that veteran actor has signed on this men's mentality openly – 60 plus old haggards and pervert bastards will look at their granddaughter's friends with an eye to ‘hump' her ! Well this is to notify mothers not to allow their young daughters to visit any one else's house coz you never know which debauch dog will initiate your daughter into the World of ‘Sex' !!

In fact hey women – I have a better plan – since you all are so full of vengeance to things done by ‘pure assholes' – why don't you snatch away this pleasure of ‘humping' young girls from them altogether? – how ? By not becoming pregnant dumbos – how else – at old age – anyways your sons and daughters will not look after you – better invest in some Financial Institute and live with dignity and self respect – I have read many scriptures – no where it is written that a woman has to ‘hump' and give birth to some mongrel or some Item Girl !! This way the old haggard male – even if he is a debauch will have no where to go and thus will continue to sing songs full of praises of your ‘sagging skin' to you – isn't this what you all have always wanted secretly ?!

I have been wanting to see this movie for a while but reading the negative reviews of this movie at chakpak I didnt get myself to watch it. But since I had plan to see Cheeni Kum soon, thought id watch a similar themed movie Nishabd and compare them. Watching the first hour, i understood why the feedback was negative. RGV seemed obsessed with Jiah's legs and the annoying phrase - take light so much so that everyone in the cast uses it.. Where the movie really picks up the slack is when Bachchan starts to reciprocate to Jiah's advances. It was pretty intense. If it had another actor in the protoganist's role, it would have ended up an average movie. But boy oh boy does Big B deliver a performance. He carries the complex role with so much dignity and sensitivity that it s hard not to empatize with him. This definetly has to be one of his best performances if not the best. Some of his best roles usually have him in a role which gets all sympathy, where he is do-gooder (Black, Khakee) but in this you feel for him even though he plays a weak-willed person who cannot control his feelings for a girl who is a lot younger than him. SO i give the movie 4 out of 5 and Big B's performance 5 out of 5 (pity i cant give a higher rating).. well 5 points just for his singing in the haunting track - ROzana..

Now I do not know why Ram Gopal Verma wanted to teach us the meaning of a Hindi word by a two hour movie.The title is fitiing cause

1.No one except Amitabh is speaking much in the movie

2.IN scenes when Amitabh is supposed to speak he is nishabd(quiet like hell).

3.And there is this idiot girl who speaks the same two words every five words she speaks -TAKE LIGHT.

The movie does not have a second half.The first half has been tried to be made interesting by good locations but the movie definitely lacks a plot.Sometimes movie is going on to the sexual track then emotional a bit of comedy and then pathetic.

In between, every 20 mins or so , all of sudden this proffessor Amitabh(with a shaal) comes up for no reason at all and starts long bhashan which are difficult to understand cause 1 can never pay so much attention to those boring details.

Revathi is totally wasted in this movie.I still remember revathis flick with salman and so many of her movies.REVATI never pick up such movies in future.You still have a good fan following .Please do not disappoint us next time.

Only freshness in this movie is Shraddha Arya, with her character of Ritu.Iits Jiah who has exposed in this movie with really small or negligible clothes.But its shraddha who looks more beautiful and cute not to mention sweeter than jiah.She has really made a nice start and was at ease throughout the movie.This girl will definitely make it in the long run.

As far for RGV, sir what if u wanna show that u r a Hollywood style director with no songs and 2 hour movies but we expect the movies to atleast have a second half.One really feels that the writer was paid to write only the first half and the second half is just glued on to the movie.

So if any of the nishabd crew feel bad after reading this review i give you one piece of advice ---TAKE LIGHT

I dont know what the director was trying to show in the movie! Jiah Khan's character was irritating she played the type of girl you would never prefer to talk to! Amitabh's acting was good, if we see him only as an actor but the role was pathetic, the director maybe fails to Justify why a matured man (also a father and Husband) fell in love with an irritating girl, it just shows that they fell in love! There should be a reason and that too a strong one for spoling three lives (Amitabh's , his Daughter's and Revathi's) but the director fails to high light it.

While you are wayching the movie you will notice:

1) That sharadha (who plays amitabh's daughter) is more pretty and a better actor than Jiah Khan

2) Amtabh's acting is good, but his role is too irritating ...he keeps giving Fundas in the whole movie which I fail to understand

3) A good actress like Revati is wasted in the movie

4) Jiah Khan should think of going back from where she came from, as she is not at all good looking and doesnt know the "A" of acting

5) I dont know why the director was so obsessed by Jiah Khan's Legs (he kept showing them whenever he got a chance)


I think this movie shouldnt have been made, really a pathetic one. I would also say that Ramu is a better producer than a director.

i guess the tag line of this movie shud have been "some movies are never meant to be made..." :-), i did not like the overall movie... the first half tries to show the how the relation between jia and amitabh grows but somehow i simply failed to connect to the character played by jia, she was an irritating kind of character, i could not see how they fall in love... the second half was still better as the confrontation of amitabh and his wife/ daughter is shown... the end is weird...

the movie has good performance by amitabh and shradha (who plays amitabh's daughter)... jiah khan acts badly... revathi has no role at all... overall not the kind of movie you would expect from RGV... looks like factory ka shutter down hone waala hai... i am sure he is going to make a real big spoof of sholay.... i hope sarkaar 2 is good...

dinrat

I didnt like the movie at all. I was expecting a much mature and serious movie . The buildup between amitabh and jiah is not upto the mark. The whole movie looks farce after that. I wasnt able to understand why they are in love ?
Acting is so so.. jiah's acting is irritating but may be she is meant to be irritating in the film ..
Overall - avoid it.