I watched "Nishabd" this evening. I was pestering my regular DVD rent house guy to get this movie ASAP. I asked him for a money back when I returned this movie. Money back for watching this movie. Really, I had expected so much from this movie that it was quite disappointing. There are few scenes where AB is absolutely flawless and Jia Khan is fantastic, but trust me, its not worth it. AB looks damn guilty and JK looks bimbo-ish. I watched this movie with 2x speed (forwarding ofcourse) and was still able to see the sub-titles in fairly decent speed. Can a movie be this slow? (there is a line by Calvin-"This is so slow that if it gets even a bit slower than this, it would be going backwards. I can safely state the same thing here.) So I watched this movie in about 45 minutes. (Trailers that were shown for this movie were best in the entire movie!). I don't agree that Indian audience are not ready for winter-summer romance, but I guess we lack the maturity to bring it out entirely on the screen. In
American Beauty, Kevin Spacey has this humungous crush on this daughter's best friend and he doesn't justify the reason for that. Maybe thats what I had been expecting when I was watching this movie, but it wasnt remotely similar to that. AB, does gives reasons for his behaviour which I think kinds of make him feel guilty all the time. He is quite vulnerable and JK is quite alluring in this movie.
PS: I am watching a horror movie called "
The Messengers" to wash away the silence of Nishabd. A nice movie (of course I have seen it before) with awesome light (or lack of :-)) effects.