Shabd (film)

Shabd (Hindi: शब्द, Urdu: شبد, English: Word) is a 2005 Bollywood movie produced by Pritish Nandy Communications, and directed by Leena Yadav. It stars Sanjay Dutt, Aishwarya Rai and Zayed Khan. The film got good reviews but failed at the Box Office. This movie resembles the 1983 Malayalam movie Rachana directed by Mohan.

Plot

Shaukat (Sanjay Dutt) is a Booker Prize-winning writer, whose latest work has been criticised by one and all for being too surreal for anyone's liking. Antara (Aishwarya Rai), his wife, supports him nevertheless.

Shaukat has some weird plans for his next book though. He decides to manufacture a realistic story by making Antara hide her marital status from Yash (Zayed Khan) and pursue a relationship with him. Things go wrong as Antara begins to have real feelings for Yash. (She still loves Shaukat though.)

Whatever Shaukat pens turns out to be true. He starts to believe he can change Antara's and Yash's fate by his writings, and writes according to his logic that Yash would commit suicide after getting to know Antara's reality. However, Antara soon comes to know of this. She lies to Shaukat that Yash really committed suicide in order to disillusion Shaukat. Shaukat, out of guilt, becomes schizophrenic. The film ends on a disturbing note: Antara sends Shaukat to an asylum, due to his schizophrenia.

Cast

• Sanjay Dutt as Shaukat Vashisth
• Aishwarya Rai as Antara Vashisth/Tammana
• Zayed Khan as Yash
• Sadiya Siddiqui as Rajni (Maidservant)
• Brajendra Kala as Servant
• Aakash Pandey as Shouting Asyllum Inmate
• Imran Hasnee as Asylum Doctor
• Happy Sharma as College Peon

Music

The music of the film did get good reviews among audiences though the film overall performed well below expectations at the box-office. The film had the following sound-tracks.

External links

• Shabd at the Internet Movie Database
• Leena Yadav's Interview