Nishabd
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Movie poster for Nishabd
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| Directed by | Ram Gopal Verma |
| Produced by | Ram Gopal Verma |
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Amitabh Bachchan Jiah Khan Aftab Shivdasani Revathi Rukhsar |
| Music by | Vishal Bhardwaj |
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Running time
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110 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Nishabd (Devnagari: निशब्द, English: Without Words) is a 2007 Indian drama film directed by Ram Gopal Varma, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Jiah Khan. The story of the movie is loosely based on the 1999 Academy Award-winning hollywood movie American Beauty and Anokha Rishta starring Rajesh Khanna.
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 Vijay and Jia kissing 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.
The film was shot in 20 days. The movie was shot at Munnar in Kerala. 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).
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