Analyze it, your way!. Review on Nishabd

All right. All right. Love happens. Love'actually' happens. No complaints. But aren't we supposed to be a vigilant witness and critic of all the'happenings' that just'happen' in our complex and irrepressible realm of mind? Especially when we are 60 and leading a life offering us all the comforts?

I was desperately waiting to watch'Nishabd' hoping to see RGV return in his element. But what happened with Guru, something similar happened with Nishabd. Guided by the instincts and ethos of love, the film carries a really heavy burden of explaining the love at 60. And why it comes as an implausible offering is mainly because the love'happens' quickly in a few days without giving it enough room to expand and then explode.

Vijay(Amitabh Bachchan, great act, simply great!) is a passionate photographer living with his wife Amuta(Revathi, excellent as usual. She is one of those I-know-everything kind of women and is extremely believable in every role) and their teen aged daughter Ritu(Shraddha Arya, good job). Jiah(Jiah Khan, impressive and like all the previous gals she too falls pray to RGV's seductive camera. However, RGV has special affinity to legs this time!)

Jiah's weird yet irresistible presence brings a smile on AB's face and she starts ruling over the major portion of his brain. AB admits to his love and this triggers enough tears and anger in wife and daughter. Jiah leaves the house and AB is left to experience an eternal agony. At one point he thinks of committing suicide but decides to live so that he can indulge in reminiscences of Jiah.

As I was leaving the theatre, I found myself more confused and incomplete than AB's character. Because on one hand falling in love at the age of 60 was totally agreeable but something was stopping me to get closer to Jiah and Vijay. Probably because I was not totally'convinced' by their love. Love is not a quick recipe. It takes considerable time to boil and then only it acquires its capacity to destroy you. I do not know whether it is really possible to fall in love on short notice, but even if we accept that as an honest feeling, we would certainly like to listen to that'something' that made them lost in each other. When Vijay says that he wants to live to remember Jiah, you feel bad for his wife and daughter. Wouldn't there be ANYTHING about them that would make Vijay'live'? The way he shouts at his daughter when she enters an argument with Jiah was quite hurting for me. He, as a mature father, should EXPLAIN himself to her daughter. It is appreciable that he accepts his love for Jiah in front of his wife, but does he try to establish a DIALOGUE with her? I think that RGV was so threatened with the obvious brickbats by the society that he made his Vijay a pitiable chap. I mean why would somebody be made to feel so guilty for falling in love?(Remember Akshaye Khanna in Dil Chahta Hai? Says that he is sorry because his emotions for Dimple Kapadia made her sad, but he is not sorry for loving her.) As the caption of Nishabd goes - Some love stories are never meant to be understood. I wish to make a small change. No love story is meant to be understood. If you are able to connect to that love story, FEEL that love story, there is no need to understand it. This should have happened to Nishabd, but it does not happen.

Still, Nishabd is worth a watch because love has numerous interpretations. It is really not possible to say that Nishabd is a good movie or a bad movie because it deals with a highly volatile emotion called love. Foe some(like Mr. Raja Sen of Rediff.com) it may come as a powerful depiction of an emotional crisis. Some would discard it saying that it is not at all convincing. Some would rather prefer to be Nishabd about Nishabd and some like me would get lost in analyzing the minds of those lovelorn individuals and the pattern of their behavior to others, which may be beyond the grasp of understanding of the society.

Technical side is perfect. Some of the frames are just cool. Rozana song is missing and the background score is horrible. It is anything but music that marks the advent of love.

I find myself in a curious situation while talking about Nishabd. But RGV would smile at all sorts of comments as he has already made it clear that some love stories are never meant to be understood. Dear Mr. Director, why do you want to prove again and again that you are different? You ARE different. Just that you need to be simply different! Come on now, we are waiting for Rangeela and Satya!

Cheers!

utpal