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lakshmi

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did any one here watch the movie??? is it good or bad???😊

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i wanna go watch the movie..from all the reviews it sees like its for those who are Big B fans..but somehow this film just appeals to me...it seems interesting in a different sort of way...and im not a really a that a big BigB fan..but altho this movie may not last long in the theaters...it still holds some special meanings..which i think can only be experinced thru watching it! 😛

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Director :
Music :

Lyrics :

Starring :

Ram Gopal Varma
Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani, Amar Mohile
Munna Dhiman, Farhad, Sajid
Amitabh Bachchan, Jiah Khan, Revathi, Shraddha Arya, Aftab Shivdasani, Rukhsar

By Martin D'Souza, Bollywood Trade News Network

Big wind, loud thunder, no rain. This aptly describes Ram Gopal Varma's attempt to portray a seductive Lolita on Indian screen. After all the hype, the real thing – coke without fizz.

SO WHAT WENT WRONG? LET'S ANALYSE THIS…

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The "shut up" scene where they almost have an accident is handled very amateurishly. How can Vijay allow a chit of a girl to talk to him like that? When his daughter raises her voice to talk to him, (after she finds out what her friend and dad are up to) he shuts her up in front of Jiah…

"Do you love me?" Jiah asks before the interval. After a long pause Vijay says "Yes" and the camera moves in on Revathi's (playing Amitabh's wife) picture hanging on the wall reminding one of the serial Hum Paanch where Priya Tendulkar's framed picture was a constant zoom-in.

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lakshmi

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Originally posted by: ~LiNa~
i wanna go watch the movie..from all the reviews it sees like its for those who are Big B fans..but somehow this film just appeals to me...it seems interesting in a different sort of way...and im not a really a that a big BigB fan..but altho this movie may not last long in the theaters...it still holds some special meanings..which i think can only be experinced thru watching it! 😛

yah...most reviews say its big B's best...that enough for me anyway👏 He gets better and better each time...I too want to see the film...hopefully will see it soon😊

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lakshmi

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USER MOVIE REVIEW-NISHABD

Average Rating:4.58

By ravi shankar, March 2, 2007 - 21:50 IST

FANTASTIC MOVIE GREAT AMITABH BACHAN ACTING ALL THE BEST BIG B THE BEST

What I liked about the movie:
EVERYTHING

What I didn't like about the movie:
TO EARLY FINISH

Favorite Scene:
ALL

Would you recommend this movie to your friend: Yes

User Movie Rating: 5

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Awesome! Whenever you think Amitabh Bachchan has given his best performance, the man mesmerizes you with his next.

What I liked about the movie:
Mr Bachchan all the way. Infact Jiah is also very good. It doesn't seem it's her very first film...very confident!

What I didn't like about the movie:
A bit of slow pace but that doesn't really matter much.

Favorite Scene:
Almost every.

Would you recommend this movie to your friend: Yes

User Movie Rating: 5

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USER MOVIE REVIEW-NISHABD

Average Rating:4.63

By sri sri, March 3, 2007 - 07:12 IST

Wonderful Movie, Sensible and Cool to watch!!

What I liked about the movie:
Amitabhs acting and RGV's direction...just different

Favorite Scene:
All scenes where Amitabh emotes with eyes

Would you recommend this movie to your friend: Yes

User Movie Rating:4.5

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By shaheen raaj, March 3, 2007 - 07:05 IST

786 FILM REVIEW BY: SHAHEEN RAAJ "NISHABD" 'A BOLD & BEAUTIFUL MOVIE' Film: 'Nishabd' Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Jiah Khan, Aftab Shidasani, Shraddha Arya, Revathy & Nasser Director: Ram Gopal Verma Hats off to debutante actress Jiah Khan for matching her histrionics' step in tandem with Big B's powerhouse performance. Of course Ram Gopal Verma too deserves a pat on his back for making such a bold & beautiful movie. So is it 'Lamhe' or is it 'Lolita'? The debate is uncalled for & unwarranted. Just sit back in the darkened aisles of the auditorium & enjoy it as the silent love story of a young girl & old man unfolds on the celluloid silver screen. And I fully agree with Ramuji's claim that some stories have no medium of expression. They are better left 'Nishabd' wordless. The premise of the plot is simple. Lollipop sucking Lolita oops Jia (Jiah Khan) comes with her friend Ritu (Shraddha Arya) to spend her holidays all the way from Australia to the visually captivating beautiful locations of Munnar in Kerala. She is bold, she is boisterous, and she is bindaas. An unclad fetching beauty in halters & mini skirts who has a disturbed past (parental) of her own. She falls head over hills in love with her best friend Ritu's Dad Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) who reciprocates her feelings of love or was it lust? Go figure it out for yourself. I recommend that if you are a serious lover of good cinema don't give 'Nishabd' a miss. What happens then? The daughter Ritu catches them red handed. She is shattered. The uncle Jagdish (Nasser) is confused. The wife Amrita (Revathy) cold shoulders him. While the husband Vijay is on the brink of committing a nostalgic suicide. Of course every thing is sorted out when in walks Rishi (Aftab Shivdasani) Jia's lover. After making all kinds of likeable & dislikable movies Ramuji has finally made a masterpiece with technical finesse & brilliance in lieu with his entire team. Amitabh Bachchan is superb is all I can say. He is doing roles now which are worthy of his talent age factor not withstanding. Mark my words Jiah Khan will sweep all the debutante awards for 2007 in spite an apt display of her leg show. Aftab Shivdasani is just great in his cameo.

What I liked about the movie:
the freshness of the bold new debutante actress Jiah Khan

What I didn't like about the movie:
nothing

Favorite Scene:
all the love scenes between Big B & Jia n also the brooding scenes of Big B in his typical bachchanesque style

Would you recommend this movie to your friend: Yes

User Movie Rating: 5

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lakshmi

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Nishabd-First day first show

IndiaFm brings you the exclusive audience reaction the Ram Gopal Varma's latest Amitabh Bachchan starrer 'Nishabd'

http://www.indiafm.com/broadband/video/First-Day-First-Show/ yGQPST6/3/First-Day-First-Show-Of-Nishabd.html

The film apparantly is getting mixed responses. While it has left some speechless, it has failed to impress a few others. Though the performances, especially of the Big B is drawing rave responses. Seems like another feather on Bachchan's cap.

👏👏yipeee cant wait to watch it...Knew it cant possible be a commercial success...😉 dun care...just hope to see it soon😊

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lakshmi

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'Nishabd', a sensitive tale of forbidden passion (REVIEW)

By Subhash K. Jha, March 3, 2007 - 01:34 IST

Film: 'Nishabd'; Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Jiah Khan, Revathy, Nasser, Shraddha; Director: Ram Gopal Varma;

Rating: * * * *

Finally there's just the man and his looming loneliness. He could end it right now. But he chooses to live on, so that he could live with the memories of lost love for a bit longer.

Ram Gopal Varma's 'Nishabd' leaves you speechless. Its pulsating but humane play of light and shade within the sprawling gorgeous greenery of a tea estate is the closest you're going to come to the passion of a renaissance painting in Hindi cinema.

Varma's mastery over visuals, which tells a tale of reclamation and retribution, has never been in doubt. The qualities that have always made his cinema look unique have been applied to a theme that has so far remained forbidden to Varma's range of vision.

In narrating a 60-year-old 'happily' married man's sudden passion for his daughter's 18-year-old friend, Ramu goes for the jugular.

The luminous language of 'Nishabd' makes you grope for new words to describe the experience of watching a film that unfolds like the petals of a wild but tender flower.

'Nishabd' is a brooding look at an autumnal life that suddenly finds excitement. The eruption of passion is manifested in little things like the sprout of a gushing water fountain, or the atypical laughter of a patriarch who has just discovered the clandestine pleasure of playing footsie under the table with his daughter's friend.

The confusions, turmoils and playful expeditions into emotional areas that no Hindi film has dared to visit, makes this Varma's most accomplished film to date.

He leaves behind the gangsterism of 'Satya' and the violence of 'Company'. Never afraid to take risks, Varma plunges straight into a fear-filled heart of an aging man who suddenly experiences emotions that he never knew existed within him.

Both the director and the protagonist venture into unlit territory of bright, smothered passions with arresting aplomb.

You've seen Varma ferret out a unique performance from Bachchan in 'Sarkar'. Nothing prepares you for the flowing emotions that spill out of the superstar's eyes, face and entire being as he grapples with his uncontrollable feelings for the feisty Jiah.

In 'Nishabd', Varma has achieved that synthesis of time and experience that gives human relationships a spin of eternity.

Technical soundness is of course a hallmark of Varma's cinema. He applies his trademark technique - restless camera movements and unpredictable shot divisions - to a world far removed from the violence and horror of his earlier cinema.

Bachchan's character convincingly goes into the recesses of the wounded human heart in search of the answer to that one question - what's the purpose of our existence?

According to Varma's superb dialogue writer Amrik Gill, it is happiness. That quest for joy, which we forfeit in our pursuit of day-to-day aspirations, is retrieved in this elegiac yet exhilarating film about re-discovering passion and disconnecting it with sex.

There are innumerable moments of unalloyed cinema in this sensuous treatise on forbidden passion. Bachchan's lighter moments with the whimsical 'Lolita' of the new millennium are saucily grand.

It's the smothered and sublime tragedy that he builds around his character - its journey from restrained amusement to a stunning slouch - that makes his performance exceptional.

Bachchan's chemistry with young Jiah (unarguably Varma's best discovery to date) is so virile, vulnerable, tender and yet invincible at the core.

A special word for Amar Mohile's background score. It creates a new intimate idiom of expression, unifying the call of the human heart with nature and its most flawed creation - the human being.

'Nishabd' elevates the traditional language of cinema to the plane of unrhymed poetry.

Edited by lucky_lakshmi - 18 years ago

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lakshmi

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Movie Review

Nishabd - Can the detractors go Nishabd?

Exclusive by Joginder Tuteja, IndiaGlitz [Saturday, March 03, 2007]

Aah..how could Ram Gopal Varma bring something like this out in open? How could Amitabh Bachchan consent to play such a role? And after all would there ever be a 60 year old man who would take such a step of 'falling in love' with a girl who would be fit to be his grand daughter?

All those who are making such statements may go take a hike. Because one thing is for sure that more than 90% of those who are saying so are still not 60 years of age. And hence they have no right or reason to comment on how a man could fall in love again at this age.

So could possibly answer this query? Probably our own parents who may have be 60 years or above! But can we expect them to give us an honest answer?

And this is where Ram Gopal Varma's interpretation of the situation comes handy as he tries to tell a tale and reason on the side of the lead protagonist who has seemingly seen it and done all but somewhere down there the passion in him is still left ignited that just needed a spark more to come out full throttle!

By now, everyone is aware about the basic plot of the film. A 60 year old man Vijay [Amitabh Bachchan] meeting his daughter's [Shraddha Arya] best friend Jiah [Jiah Khan] as she comes home for holidays. Vijay has a wife [Revathi] of many years and they are now living a retired life in the picturesque town of Munnar.

What seems to be a casual acquaintance to begin with turns into an unprecedented tale of blossoming love that was unexplainable and unprecedented. Of course for Jiah, spirited as she loves to be, it was a feeling that none could explain but eventually she was the first to take a move forward.

She teases Vijay, invites him and demonstrates her feelings for him. And eventually when Vijay finds himself attracted to him [let's not get into a debate if it was sexual, spiritual, casual, platonic or whatsoever, the fact was that he found himself to be attracted to her in a manner that was unusual, is good enough], trouble arises.

Of course his wife and daughter are none too pleased about the situation and Vijay too realizes the fact [all this while] that it was nothing more than being self-destructive to be falling for something that was never his, could never be his and was futile to say the least. But would Jiah's exuberance allow him to take a strong stance?

So does the film provide entertainment? Most probably not for all. European in theme and treatment, its narrative may be alien to majority of cinegoers, especially those outside the metros and other cosmopolitan cities, and hence it may be pardoned for those in the smaller centers and towns if they go home wondering what RGV had to offer to them. But for those who like to watch an unconventional tale with some superb technical aspects working in the film's favor, 'Nishabd' is certainly a different experience of it's kind.

The film moves at a very slow pace and it is to the credit of the lead pair of Amitabh Bachchan and Jiah Khan who keep the audience engrossed as the relationship between them starts taking different shades. With focus more on the facial expressions, body language and subtle mannerisms, dialogues take a back seat and for a movie like this, it is only imperative that its visuals are stronger than the words.

It takes guts for an all time superstar like Mr. Bachchan to be accepting a challenging role like this and he does remarkably well yet again. If you thought that the best of him was with RGV in 'Sarkar' then you have to watch 'Nishabd'. And what can one say about Jiah Khan? This is the best ever debut that she could have expected and with her superb confident act in front of the camera, she would only face difficulty to find stronger roles in her innings ahead in Bollywood as she has achieved so much in her very first film.

Amongst the supporting cast, Revathi's talent has always been unquestionable and yet again she proves that she is someone who has been underutilized in Hindi cinema. Shraddha Arya is decent too while Nasser and Aftab Shivdasani are fine in their small parts.

Apart from RGV's narrative, Big B and Jiah Khan, the other two factors that work most for the film are its background score and cinematography/camera moments. Spell binding and truly imaginative. These are some of the areas where RGV has traditionally worked hard on reinventing himself and strive for the best and his team gives him great results this time around too.

When a story like this is told, there are bound to be eyebrows raised and debates opening up. Nothing wrong in that; as long as one stops confusing oneself around the thin line between moral policing and empathizing with the situation. As long as it revolves around the latter, it still makes sense and all debates are more than welcome but when one starts poking questions like "How could he fall in love?" it sounds nothing but downright stupid.

Is the person making such a comment being a part of something like this? If no, then it is better to keep the mouth shut without coming up with judgmental statements and just let a film maker do his job.

Rating: * * *

Edited by lucky_lakshmi - 18 years ago

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lakshmi

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Nishabd review

By Ravi

We are HUMAN.

Man's need goes like this - Food, Rest(Sleep), Sex

The concept of Nishabd is not against our tradition - INDIAN Tradition. It is in the deepest roots of our Indian souls and our real tradition -

1. Sati sahagaman

2. Balya Vivah

3. and this NISHABD.

Our deepest feelings must not be supressed... at any stage or at any age.., they must be fulfilled by either ways. Else the desire will make us sick and lead to many atrocities.

I welcome such cinemas to invite our REAL Indian tradition back to life. Homosexualism is not there in our tradition, but it is spoken very openly in India also, then why not this?

It takes some time to digest the cinema, even it took years for the americans to digest "Blame it on Rio (1984)".

Don't ever look at a thing in one way, look at it in all directions.. You will recieve the cinema perfectly.

Good work RGV, Amitabh, Jiah and other casts

Plus Points: Our Real Indian Tradition brought back to life

Minus Points: The concept may be misused and many family/friendly relations might get corrupted

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Edited by lucky_lakshmi - 18 years ago