By Ashok Nayak
A 60 year old married man romancing an 18 year old teenage girl – Strange isn’t it? Well, that’s what Nishabd is about.
Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) is a wild life photographer who lives with his family in a Hill station. Jiah (Jiah Khan) is his daughter Ritu’s (Shraddha Arya) friend. Jiah visits the hill station to spend her holidays with the family. Vijay on his regular tour is out admiring the nature and taking pictures. His focus is captivated by the young n fresh looking Jiah all drenched up. The lens of his camera also gets attracted towards this beauty and his fingers just clicking them away. This harmless photo session changes his feelings towards her.
Well, the love isn’t one sided though. Jiah too realizes that she is obsessed towards the man of her father’s age. The relationship deepens when Ritu, who was supposed to accompany Jiah and Vijay on a trip, injures herself. The odd couple goes together.
Direction – Ram Gopal Varma has handled some sequences remarkably well. But a few well executed scenes just cannot hide the glaring defects. Also as a story teller he fails to hold on to your interest in the second half of the movie. Something which was expected, after a good first hour.
The credit for some of those defects goes to the writer (Vladimir Nakobov). Some questions are left unanswered. Like, what happened to Jiah after she is asked to leave the house? What made Vijay change his mind all of a sudden?
Few scenes which are worth a mention for its brilliant writing, acting and direction:-
- The dining table scene were Jiah tickles Vijay from underneath the table
- When Big b sings Jiya Jage
- When big b laughs uncontrollably late in the night.
- The don’t care – take it easy character of Jiah is well written and performed.
The music is good, especially the background score. The cinematography is top class. The Hill station is so beautifully shot that you feel like spending your next holiday at the Munnar Hill station.
Acting- Amitabh Bachchan – 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.
Jiah Khan – She matches up to the Big b throughout the movie and for a newcomer it’s no easy a task to stand up to the legend. The future should be bright for this young actress. Solid Debut. Also, she has a great screen presence.
Aftab Shivdasani in a special appearance has nothing much to do. Revathi and Shraddha Arya are good.
Overall -
Positives – Recently, quite a few movies are being produced with a run time of around 2 hours. Nishabd is one among them. Also few sequences (3 mentioned above) leave an impact on the view. That’s about it.
Negative – The last hour of the movie, in short, is boring.
Box Office Prediction – How the audience reacts to this kind of a movie is to be seen. Such movies usually don’t do well at the smaller centers. So I expect a good opening weekend at the Multiplexes. But business should start dipping post Monday and the movie might end up being a average grosser.
Now Running Rating – 2.5 / 5 (Worth a watch if you are a Amitabh Bachchan fan)
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