Nishabd is also about a strange kind of love – about an old man (Amitabh Bachchan, once again as Vijay) who falls for his daughter’s friend Jiah (Jiah Khan). So why do the very things that worked in Naach fail so badly here? Why do the thundering background score and the hyperactive camera and the portentous stretches of silence – in something named Nishabd, yet – feel so out of place? I think it’s the writing. For a film with such a controversial theme – more American Beauty than Lolita – the drama feels so hollow, we’re left with just the atmosphere; all that sound and fury signifying nothing. I never thought the day would come when I would declare Karan Johar gutsier than Ram Gopal Varma, but however much Johar sugarcoated KANK, he at least showed us Shah Rukh Khan and Rani Mukerji sleeping together while still married to other people. In contrast, Nishabd is just one giant tease.
B.Rangan is disappointed with Nishabd.
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enigmatic
Mar 5th, 2007 at 7:13 pm | #
I agree that Indian cinema should progress beyond its mishmash of candyfloss love stories, boring gangster dramas, star-driven junk stuff etc – but are movies like NISHABD actually providing quality variety fare? is it logical by any standards to assume that a 64 yrs old man would ‘fall in love’ with a 19-year old ? and that too when the 19-year old is shown as someone strutting around with her long legs and skimpily clad ? two things can possibly happen -either the 64-yr old man would ask the 19year old to behave herself, or, he would be strongly driven by his testosterone! in Nishabd, neither happens and the feelings that AB feels are showcased as poetic love! the trauma that AB’s Vijay undergoes is sheer lust, period, a desire trigerred by seeing something young, tender, juicy and supple, and not something platonic at all – but RGV wants us to believe it that way, which is like serving a very well-cooked polythene bag of basmati rice, instead of the rice itself! this simply is not the direction Indian cinema should be taking – being unconventional is fine and is very much welcome, but being illogical is taking the intelligence of an average filmgoer for a big ride! all those 60plus oldies travelling in buses in metro cities dont ‘fall in love’ with young dames, they just plain oogle at young dames – nor is there anything even remotely platonic about oldies desiring to be in the company of younger women – lack of courage to show things as they are is where our filmmakers fail – and to top it all, the dumb tagline, “some love stories are not meant to be understood” – how about this “some stories are not meant to be made into movies, if they dont have logic in them” – that would be more appropriate – not just RGV, it is AB too, who has taken all of us for a clean dumb-s*ckers ride – in one interview he says “senility is not the end of desire”, thus making “desire” the central issue of this movie, while all of our critics go gaga over this not being about ‘desire’ but about ‘emotions/love’ – give us all a frigging break! at this rate, we will never ever get out of the rut of filmmakers making bad cinema in the name of intelligent cinema, while movies like NISHABD insult our intelligence
nisha007
Mar 6th, 2007 at 1:14 am | #
enigmatic comments on the film! must say … whats more everything was communicated dispassionately…
Incidentally my blog on the film was to the contrary…a lot was communicated but passionately…..
Interesting to read the objections here though.
jain
Mar 7th, 2007 at 2:14 am | #
BULLSHIT… dono y they indian maker keep on experiment bad things.. when there are many great things to do… all together a worst experience with film…
preet
Mar 11th, 2007 at 3:54 am | #
i totally agree i mean is so stupid
crazi stuff
i hate it
can’t they make movies which are funny, romantic n guyish movies for guys
like i am waiting to watch munnabahi 3
i just wish they wouldn’t make adult movies, movies that even adults don’t wanna watch