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 ?!