By Indicine, March 2, 2007 - 05:02 IST
14 of 15 people found this review helpful Nishabd is a movie with a lot of shock value. The kiss and the confession of her love by Jiah just before the interval takes the movie to an all time high, which leaves you with great expectation from the second half. But sadly the second half doesnt quite match upto the brilliance of the first half of the movie. It looses track in the rather important second hour and ends abruptly.
By WithoutGivingTheMovieAway, March 2, 2007 - 11:47 IST
5 of 7 people found this review helpful The dialogues are crisp and keep you interested throughout. The characters are left nishabd or at the most ek-shabd when there is no need for dialogues.
However, on the whole the movie lacks depth. In tastefully handling the main relationship, the other relationships were ignored. The makers took the easy route. To highlight the intensity of the Vijay-Jiah relationship, they abandoned explanations for all other relationships.
By Now Running, March 2, 2007 - 11:50 IST
4 of 6 people found this review helpful Amitabh Bachchan is remarkable yet again. Every emotion and expression he displays is simply incredible. He puts his heart and soul into the movie and emerges a winner. Yet again he reiterates the fact that he is truly the Shehenshah when it comes to histrionics. Big thumb up to the Big b.
By Indya, March 2, 2007 - 11:54 IST
4 of 6 people found this review helpful The film begins with Vijay (Bachchan) standing at the edge of a cliff attempting suicide. In the following scene, he is shown talking to the audience (but in fact he is talking to one of film's characters who is not shown in the frame) about what led him to taking this extreme step...
By Movietalkies, March 3, 2007 - 05:02 IST
4 of 6 people found this review helpful Amitabh Bachchan is superb in the lead as Vijay (an interesting choice of name), the 60-year-old photographer who has his own demons to deal with, realizing that his rational side has a difficult test to pass when he falls for the overtures of an 18-year-old girl, Jiah (again, an interesting choice of name). And Jiah Khan as the 18-year-old makes an impressive debut, slipping into the role of Jiah like a glove.
By Merinews, March 3, 2007 - 05:09 IST
3 of 5 people found this review helpful Nishabd proves once and for all why Amitabh Bachchan is God of acting. Not many dialogues, not many movements, yet the eyes do the talking almost in every sequence.
By Santabanta, March 6, 2007 - 03:53 IST
3 of 5 people found this review helpful Nishabd is a brooding though never dark look at an autumnal life that suddenly discovers passion and excitement. The eruption of passion is manifested in little but luminous 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.
By MumbaiMirror, March 6, 2007 - 03:56 IST
3 of 5 people found this review helpful I found that funny… funnier than anything Ramu has done, or hasn't done. What's shove got to do with love? Sure, sex is an important part of the man-woman axis, particularly in the visual arts where a love relationship without sex is like a bar of soap with zero lather.
By MTV India, March 2, 2007 - 11:52 IST
3 of 4 people found this review helpful There's absolutley no chemistry between Big B and Jiah Khan. Even Bachchan's acting credibility can't save his poorly etched character - the weakest point in the movie...
By Glamsham, March 3, 2007 - 05:17 IST
2 of 5 people found this review helpful For the audience to digest the fact that an 18-year-old Jiah (newcomer Jiah Khan) is enticing him and he just plays along like a poodle is unpalatable. In fact, if it was Lust instead of Love, it would have been more real. C’mon Ramu, how many people that age will want to fall in love all over again after they have found the love of their life!
By Businessofcinema, March 2, 2007 - 11:51 IST
2 of 4 people found this review helpful The film in futility does not analyze the intensity of love between the two, instead analyses the complexity of the relationship and repercussion it has on Vijay’s family life. It is when Ritu (Shraddha Arya) eavesdrops on the conversation between her beloved father and her best friend Jiah that she realizes what is cooking between the two of them. Soon his wife is made aware of this, reacting in the much obvious fashion. An estranged father and a troubled lover is made to forfeit his love; resulting in too many unhappy people.
By Apunkachoice, March 3, 2007 - 05:05 IST
2 of 4 people found this review helpful The movie rests solely on the dependable shoulders of Amitabh Bachchan. If not for him, ‘Nishabd’ would have ended up as a mediocre product.
It is a popular notion in Bollywood that acting is about speaking punchy dialogues, shedding tears, delivering monologues and giving intense facial expressions...
By Rediff, March 3, 2007 - 05:10 IST
2 of 4 people found this review helpful The film opens in the insanely green Munnar, the kind of casually breathtaking locale that gives Kerala a good shout at that Divine Country claim. Through the hazy bluegreen tint of the camera we come across the stark white spikes of Amitabh Bachchan's french beard in extreme close up, as he starts his narration -- as he, standing on the edge of a rocky precipice, tells the story of a girl that drove him to thoughts of suicide.
By Ibnlive, March 3, 2007 - 05:12 IST
2 of 4 people found this review helpful I suspect most people, women particularly are going to have a problem with the film's ending. As much as I'd like to elaborate, I won't because saying any more here will give away too much. I must confess I had a problem with the film's ending myself, but for another reason completely - I feel it's a cop-out.
By Planet Bollywood, March 5, 2007 - 04:37 IST
2 of 4 people found this review helpful The seductive vocals of Actress Jiah Khan excite the listener to the bare minimum. Amar Mohile designs Take Lite in the form of a strip-tease piece of music and creates a mood of a craving teenager trying to find a way with her desires (What? Yes teenagers do have desires). A pinch of attitude and breathy vocals portray Jiah Khan’s attempt at expressing her emotions and desires.
By Indiaglitz, March 6, 2007 - 03:50 IST
2 of 4 people found this review helpful 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.
By Sify, March 6, 2007 - 05:34 IST
2 of 4 people found this review helpful 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 passion of a renaissance painting in Hindi cinema.
By OhMyNews, March 6, 2007 - 08:57 IST
2 of 4 people found this review helpful On the shortcomings, firstly, the snail's pace of the plot needs to be noted. From its opening reels to the climax, "Nishabd" moves at the same slow pace that seems to bore the audiences at times, especially during the second half of the movie.
By Businessofcinema, March 3, 2007 - 05:13 IST
What is incredible in this film is that unlike the typical movies that are churned out week after week, Nishabd takes a bold step in showcasing the existence and possibility of this sort of a relationship. No time is wasted in scrutinizing if what is happening is moral or immoral; it simply flows as a film without making you question anything that is seen.
By IdleBrain, April 20, 2007 - 09:20 IST
Ram Gopal Varma tried a bold theme with Nishabd. Though he narrated the film in a classic way by infusing sensitiveness into the subject, the much needed emotions were not well established. Hence the film appears very slow and boring at times. On a whole, Nishabd is an unappealing film for a common moviegoer...
