tanisha tudor It was definitely a different kind of a story! i found the casting to be right on the mark the acting was so emotional and touching i felt it myself...it felt so real and so raw as if they were playing out the scenes for real life right in front of you.......there is this crying scene that goes on for a while between Antara and Shaukart and i'm telling you....wow.....best emotional award goes to.....Aishwarya Rai and Sanjay Dutt! she cried in other movies...but in this one her emotions were so raw ,like you just want to hug her and say everything will be okay they were amazing!

r f Shabd: My favorite movies are always Hindi; they have a sense of simple story lines and manage to make a special place in my heart. A few of my favorites is Shabd, which literally means "words", in Hindi. Egotistic, obsessive, paranoid, and self-centered, Shaukat is desperate to write something real. He resolves to borrow from life. he starts building up a character in his head named Tamanna. To breathe life into his Tamanna, he manipulates his beautiful wife and fashion teacher, Antara (encourage her friendship with a lively photography tutor, Yash (Zayed Khan). The manner in which Shaukat maneuvers Antara to 'let go' of her emotions towards Yash is too simple. One never really understands why Antara is okay with risking her marriage, or what is going on in her mind. You are torn between her being either a submissive wife with no qualms about being treated like a puppet, or an adventurous woman who doesn't mind a casual fling with a younger guy who adores her. Once the story -- Shaukat's, not the film's -- gets its tempo, the moody writer realizes the possibility of Antara actually falling in love with Yash. At first, he cries, and then decides to let reality. Too many questions are left unanswered. On paper, the idea of a frustrated husband seeking a story in his wife's uneventful life by prodding her to get closer to a younger colleague sounds more than fascinating. On screen, however, the transition of this concept is vague and confusing. Agreed, subtlety is an art. But leaving the viewer to his own devices for guessing mind-games till the very end is like creating a crossword without clues. Shaukat's internal conflicts are poorly established. For a literary author, the story he is intent on writing is somehow too cheesy. Ditto with Antara and Yash. They become friendly on the basis of some corny Sardar jokes. It's not funny at all. The interaction between Shaukat and Antara is interestingly done; they share a lot of sexual chemistry and undercurrents of tension. Shabd's strongest virtue is Sanjay Dutt. His Shaukat is complicated and controlling in nature. But Dutt lends expression to every complexity and fires up the screen with a superlative performance. He can be Godlike, arrogant, vulnerable, calculating. He rocks! The actor makes a great pair with Aishwarya Rai. She is a writer's muse after all. But enigma doesn't completely work for Antara. Her character comes out as someone incapable of thinking for herself and/or unconditionally/foolishly in love. Shaukat loves to challenge himself with words, but reality intervenes and he is challenged by his love. Antra will gamble anything for her love (husband) but doesn't realize that she is the game. Yash seemingly loved Antra, beyond that he knew nothing else, not about her life, nor about her husband.

Aam Aadmi Trying hard to like Leena Yadav's debut film 'Shabd', you sit thru the entire feature in eager anticipation of a/the/any magic moment. But ...Although the premise was novel, the buildup was not. One sex scene does not compensate for the lack of sexual chemistry between the leading pair. The Booker-prize winning author is trying so hard to come up with an authentic story for his next novel that he goes and casts his own wife as her rebellious alter-ego, easily falling for the 'forbidden fruit'. Shaukat Vashist requests, goads, almost forces his wife Antara to initiate an illicit relationship to help him craft a leading character in his next novel. When the 'truth' becomes stranger than his bookish 'fiction', and Antara meets and eventually falls for a dashing (yea, no less) young colleague, Mr Novelist is quite unable to handle it. But he saves the best, a one-page ending, for last.We are not led to believe that the entire thing is the writer's fertile imagination gone awry. Evidently Yash's character is real (witness the college peon asking Shaukat if he had any message for Yash, etc) and so is the romance that ensues between Yash and the writer's wife Antra. In the end, it appears the writer of "Shabd" was herself so confused about the interactions between her characters (there were only 3!) that she couldn't figure out how to end the characters or the movie!! The performance by Sanjay Dutt was the saving grace of this film. Zayed Khan is miscast as the college professor and lacks acting skills. Aish tries hard but her dialogs are so mushy; could have used some zing.The writer of this review believes that the writer of this movie should have worked harder on the writer in her movie.

Avinash Patalay The director Leena Yadav is falsely imprisoned in her aura that she is Stanley Kubrick re-incarnate. Its obvious that Sanju and Ash have signed the dotted line without reading the script and the director should be lauded for making mickey out of them.The script does not have holes - it has craters. And in terms of execution - it makes you feel that at the end of every shooting schedule the director goes into hibernation and forgets where she left off.Our writer uses still uses type-writer for drafting his stories, which cleverly signifies the power outages in India. And did I tell you that our writer is suit-fetish? How does it justify the writer being recipient of Booker's prize award when he at loss to delve into the psyche of a woman for his forthcoming novel? Taking too many liberties of Booker's prize eh? (Culprit: Baghbaan!).It is evident that Ash lacks conviction owing to her Hollywood assignments. Sanju's monologues gets on the nerves. Zayed Khan as a professor. Excuse Me! Bollywood badly needs a dedicated casting dept. Let me re-iterate here that Zayed does not even pretend making wee-bit of effort. It re-enforces my opinion that "star-kids are pampered lot".And please help me decide which one was worst - chemistry between Sanju and Ash or Zayed and Ash.Sadiya is only saving grace to the film and does her role with conviction.Avoid at all costs!