Nishabd
File:Nishabd.jpg Movie poster for Nishabd
Directed by	Ram Gopal Verma
Produced by	Ram Gopal Verma
Written by	Kusum Punjabi
Starring	Amitabh Bachchan Jiah Khan Aftab Shivdasani Revathi Rukhsar
Music by	Vishal Bharadwaj
Release date(s)	2 March 2007
Country	India
Language	Hindi English

Nishabd (Devnagari: निशब्द, meaning no words) is a 2007 Bollywood movie directed by Ram Gopal Varma, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Jiah Khan inspired from American Beauty and from the storyline of 1986 film Anokha Rishta starring Rajesh Khanna.

Synopsis[link]

The film opens with young Ritu (Shradha Arya) bringing her friend Jia (Jiah Khan) to spend the holidays with her at her home in Kerala. Ritu's parents Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) and Amrita (Revathi) have a beautiful home surrounded by picture-perfect surroundings. Vijay is a photographer and Amrita is a homemaker.

Jia's mother lives alone in Australia (Jia's parents are divorced), and she studies in India. She is a free-spirited teenager with no attachments and no worries. She professes some affinity to Vijay, but it doesn't go much further than that. But Vijay's world is turned upside down when he takes pictures of Jia watering herself down with the garden hose. Something innocent grows into something bigger, and something bigger grows into something beyond control.

Jia's world collides with Vijay's causing three casualties. Ritu witnesses an intimate moment between Vijay and Jia and tries to get Jia out of the house without revealing the truth to her mother but fails. Around this time, Amrita's brother Shridhar (Nassar) visits them. Through a sequence of events, he uncovers the disturbing truth about Jia and Vijay. Shridhar questions Vijay and realises that things are serious between Jia and him. Vijay confesses his love for Jia to Amrita, leaving her shattered.

Rishi (Aftab Shivdasani), the unrequited lover of Jia, visits to surprise her on her birthday. Shridhar tells Vijay to objectively look at things and decide if he is right for Jia. Vijay realises that the relationship with Jia is not the best for her and tells her to leave. Jia is heartbroken, calls him a hypocrite, and leaves with Rishi.

The family is still in pieces after Jia's departure: Ritu leaves for America, and Amrita is unable to forgive her husband. Vijay relives his moments with Jia all the time. He drives for hours and finally stands on top of rocks ready to jump. But then he remembers his moments with Jia and returns home.

Shridhar asks Vijay where he had gone and Vijay tells him he had gone to die. The film ends with his conversation with Vijay saying that he is not scared of death. He says he has nothing left to live for, no wife, no daughter, no Jia. But he came back as he wants to live for a while with Jia's memory; that's all.

Cast[link]

• Amitabh Bachchan as Vijay
• Jiah Khan as Jia
• Revathi as Amrita
• Nassar as Shridhar
• Aftab Shivdasani as Rishi

Production[link]

The film was shot in 20 days.^[1] The movie was shot at Munnar in Kerala.^[2] The claim that it was inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was denied by Amitabh Bachchan in the CNN IBN TV show Unspoken relationships - Nishabd special (3 March 2007).

Recently Ram Gopal Verma has been served with a High Court notice for infringement of the movie title by award winning Bengali filmmaker Jahar Kanungo whose film titled Nisshabd won the Cinemaya Best Film and Best Actress award in 2004.^[3]

See also[link]

• Jogger's Park
• Cheeni Kum

References[link]

1. ^ "A blog post by the film's A.D". PassionForCinema.com. 2006-05-20. http://passionforcinema.com/nishabd-in-flavours/. Retrieved 2007-12-07. 
2. ^ "Star-struck in Munnar". The Hindu : Metro Plus Kochi. 2006-05-20. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2006/05/20/stories/2006052004090100.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-20. 
3. ^ [1]

External links[link]

• Nishabd at the Internet Movie Database
• Nishabd: Ram Gopal Varma mistakes his girlfriend for Lolita: Review at SacredMediaCow
• Movie Review: Nishabd at DelhiPlanet.com
• Ram Gopal Varma blogs about the movie.

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