Shabd

2005
5.1| 2h20m| en
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Shaukat, a writer suffering from writer's block, prompts his wife to have an affair with a stranger as he seeks inspiration to write a new story. Will his wife help him write his dream novel?

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Greenes Please don't spend money on this.
Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.
Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
silvan-desouza In the movie Sanju plays a writer who has a writing block, something which seems to have stuck the writers of the film too. The film is unusual but sadly fails The characters are unique but sadly could've treated better. The scenes between Zayed and Ash are treated very amateurishly, their bonding over Sardar Pjs are terrible. The story starts off well but slowly gets so weird that it makes you cringe. On the plus side, the scenes between Sanju and Aish,their complex love story does have it's good moments but totally due to erratic writing it falters.Direction by Leena Yadav is letdown due to it's writing Music by Vishal Shekhar is good, Sholon Si is the best song, other songs are good too though some wrongly placed.The best asset of the film is Sanjay Dutt, Often known for his Bhai roles, it's nice to see him dare to do out of the box roles In this film though he gets a confusing role, he does a great job as usual and plays the character superbly. Aishwarya Rai too acts well Zayed Khan however is a miscast, the actor with his Srk Hangover hams badly especially in emotional scenes. Kamini Khanna overdoes, Sadia Siddiqui is superb as the servant, rest are okay
Sachin Dole Hmmm... thats the only thing i could say with confidence right after the movie finished. I do not recall many movies in mainstream Hindi cinema of the nature of this one with chartbusting casts. I have seen Ek Doctor Ki Maut, Khamosh, Hatya - all stories of a "different" nature, but most (not all) are made with casts of lesser followings or made with cast who are versatile and are not averse to taking risks in their character profiles. Khamosh had Amol Palekar (he can do any role), Ek Doctor had Pankaj Kapoor (rather less known at that time AND very well delivered).Here though, we had Aishwarya Rai whom you would normally see in a love story or action movie as the loving beau etc etc and Sanju dada who would normally be the worlds top most in whatever he does - they were a lost wife and even lost writer. Very unlikely for a mainstream Hindi movie. To make matters worse, Sanju dada's make up or the lack of it was totally devoid of any signs of insanity. The only early clue to the insanity is the continuous jarring incongruous background music - i think the music diro wanted to portray the complex bipolar interactions within Shaukat's mind.All else considered, Sanju dada's performance is almost flawless. He could have gotten rid of his mafia walk and stance for this movie and he could have had a more dishevelled look and probably some more peculiar behavior to drive home the insanity plea. Aishwarya did a great job. A slightly different makeup and wardrobe could have helped to bring the role out of the mainstream expectations and into the role of the distraught wife she played. I would say that the other guy was the best. Full of life and new ideas, very excited, very energetic and optimistic - a stark contrast to Shaukat. The director has put in a really good mix of environment (Shaukat's home, the art school, publisher's office, servants at home and the outdoors) to portray the characters.All in all, if you are prepared to watch a non mainstream movie with mainstream cast, this movie would be 5 stars when you watch it.
fairy_princess225-1 the film is basically about a writer who is going through a rough patch through his writing and he has an idea to do an experiment. so he encourages his wife to basically start an affair with another man(zayed) so that he can write about it. this film was really bad. i disliked it very much. first of all the movie unrealistic and the end did not make any sense at all. zayed khans acting was good but a bit wooden at times. the other bad thing was i thought this film would be OK to sit and watch with my family, but it was disgusting!! what was the need for that sex scene between aish and sanjay!! please don't waste 3 hours of your life watching this dreadful film!!!!!! the only good thing about this film were its songs,which were surprisingly melodious.
StegtKylling Indian cinema has been struggling hard to come up with good stories. All they have got is the same usual love stuff that no longer inspires anyone. Finally, today I was changing channels and happened to passby a channel playing this one. I just started watching it from the mid, and thought it would be the usual love and life stuff and I'll get bored in a minute. But as moments passed by, the movie gripped me, and I couldn't help watching it to the very end, and to the very end mean"very end"(does anybody know after half the cast, Zayed Khan is shown riding a a bike;) I am not saying that this is like the best movie ever or the biggest hit of the year, but its at least different. Its good to know that they are at least coming up with different subjects on which to make movies. My intuition says that if I dig deeper, it will turn out to be a rip off of an English movie on a similar subject. But even if thats so, its a really good effort.The movie tells us the story of a writer who starts to believe that he understands the human mind as much as it gets. And that not so wrong afterall, as throughout the movie he is always right. But this Power he thinks he possesses is sure to fireback as such power of perfect prediction of events takes away human part of a human. In the end, he has intermixed feelings of pleasure and despair when her wife lies to him that the ending he wrote turned out to be true. He simply cannot accept the power he thinks he possesses to change lives with his words, as this is unnatural for any human mind. He wants to change the end to lift the burden of his chest (because the ending he gave was really cruel, but you have to watch it to know it). Finally, like a typical suspense-like flick, the last five minutes of the movie are hard to understand. Why does Sanjay Dutt thinks the story is not finished even when he himself typed it to the end? Was he in that place at the end only because to make-up for the initial cruel ending, he re-wrote the last part and chose this for him? Was he living at the end for real, or still as a character? All these questions have no answer.Anyways, its definitely a movie worth-watching. Although it has no masala and vulgarity the Indian cinema is so used to these days, but it shines out and outstands. I personally think that in every three months, only one Indian movie turns out that is worth watching, and I think this is the movie of these three months!

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