Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

From my favorite movies..

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Leena Yadav's surprising "Shabd" (2005) is probably the most unfairly overlooked Hindi film in recent times: its box office fate was bleak, the reviews churlish, its theme dubbed too bizarre for India. One might thus be excused for thinking the film merited a pass; one would be wrong: "Shabd" is one of Bollywood's more interesting offerings in recent years, and features fine performances from Sanjay Dutt and Aishwarya Rai to boot. The latter's efforts in particular should lay to rest the fallacy that she cannot act to save her life. Rather, as "Chokher Bali," "Raincoat" and now "Shabd" have shown, Ms. Rai needs the right script and the right director to shine. Indeed the skepticism of movie critics about her abilities says more about our collective unwillingness to appreciate non-dramatic artistes than about Ms. Rai's lack of acting talent. Leena Yadav has done a fantastic job with "Shabd," and viewers willing to lend themselves to the film will find that it holds their attention throughout with a taut script that only flags a bit towards the very end of the film. Boiled down to its essentials, "Shabd" is about a one-time celebrated writer, Shaukat Vasisht (Sanjay Dutt)-- whose most recent novel has failed miserably-- and his wife Antara Vasisht (played by Aishwarya Rai in a nuanced performance), and Shaukat's attempts to redeem himself by means of a new book that he has begun to write. The film is, according to Ms. Yadav, about the thin line separating reality from fiction...continued at: http://qalandari.blogspot.com/2005/08/shabd.html

the film is basically about a writer who is going through a rough patch through his writing and he has an idea to do an experiment. so he encourages his wife to basically start an affair with another man(zayed) so that he can write about it. this film was really bad. i disliked it very much. first of all the movie unrealistic and the end did not make any sense at all. zayed khans acting was good but a bit wooden at times. the other bad thing was i thought this film would be OK to sit and watch with my family, but it was disgusting!! what was the need for that sex scene between aish and sanjay!! please don't waste 3 hours of your life watching this dreadful film!!!!!! the only good thing about this film were its songs,which were surprisingly melodious.

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!

After 3 weeks since I've seen., I'm quite surprised that none of the viewers have understood the film. Rather pity that most of us digged at zayed khans crooning sluggish screenplay but take my word - Shabd has unveiled an ending in a never before attempted twist in a screenplay, perhaps the only one that has shocked me in the recent past is Sixth Sense.WEll I don't intend to spoil the mood by revealing the climax but here goes the "climax for dummies"1) why do you think Sanjay dutt couldn't find the page read by aish in the end? 2) Why doesn't Zayed show up towards the end? 3) Why doesn't Aish talk throughout the last reel when sanjay is undergoing the trauma of not finding his script & worried about zayed?Well, the answers are simple.1) coz its the same damn page aish was holding ! 2) coz there's no zyed khan - hes a figment of sanjays imagination! 3) coz shes in awe to see sanjay becoming paranoidThe whole episode of aish-zayed is a dream sequence!!!!!Sanjay is so obsessed of writing a "real character" in his story that he starts visualising things which never happened...what rolls out till the end is his infatuation that aish is in love with zayed., but the fact is *there is no zayed"In retrospect now when you trace back to the movie you will see the 'silence' in the film towards the end ... revealing sanjay's paranoid nature.Brilliant stuff from an overly underrated first time director.As for the rest the visuals are good, aish is amazingly beautiful, zayed a.l.a SRK sucks.Go share this info with all your folks who said "Damn what a sad ending" - Wake up !