Shabd Page #7

Synopsis: Author Shaukat Vashisht lives a wealthy life-style in India with his wife, Antara, who is a College Teacher. Shaukat achieves fame when he is nominated for the Booker prize, and goes on to win it. His publishers, hoping that they have unleashed a goldmine, are disappointed with his subsequent works, and soon Shaukat is depressed to such an extent that he almost gives up writing. Then he decides to write a story on a woman named Tamanna, and figures that he will base this story on none other than Antara herself. For this purpose he starts to make note of her every movement, and it is then that he finds out that she has an admirer in fellow-teacher, Yash, a dashing young man - with a bright future ahead of him. Shaukat also finds out that Antara has never mentioned Yash to him, nor has she informed Yash that she is married. Watch how his obsession with Tamanna blurs Shaukat's reality with fiction and hallucination - with hopes still high that he will make a come-back and be nominated aga
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Leena Yadav
Production: Contentino
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.2
Year:
2005
140 min
206 Views


over the phone

I'll live only with him

I admit, I've been unfair to you

I also know that you are

a precious friend

The times I spent with you

have given me a lot

You know how to live, Yash...

and probably I lived it up with you

Why did I do this?

I was selfish

My laughter wouldn't let me

break this friendship

But I know it is wrong

It's all absurd,

but this friendship is true

I think I'm being selfish again...

but I want you to forgive me

forgive me if you can.

Please

Are you happy with your husband?

All right, be happy

You extended a hand of friendship,

and I misread it. Not your fault

I just took it for granted

that you are made for me

One fault of yours, though;...

There's no one like you, Antara

That's the end of our friendship?

Friendship remains, but I'm not

so great as you imagine

Bye, Antara

No!

How's that possible?

You spoke to him,

and he gladly said it's all over?

Yes, tell me. I want to hear it.

You're lying now, like you lied before

I lied?

- Yes, that he loves you...

and it'll break his heart.

- What's wrong with you, shaukat?

Why would I lie?

He said, "Be happy", and went away

He walked out of our lives

for good. Isn't that good?

Your looks don't seem to suggest

it was good

Did you see the agony in his eyes?

Recollect, Antara!

I didn't meet his gaze!

In fact, I couldn't

Because I don't have the guts to look

into the eyes of someone I'm hurting

It can't be

That's why I wanted to tell him

that I'm married. But you forbade me

And I obeyed you, because

I had faith in your judgement

Let go... let go

It was my mistake to obey you

It must be his ego

I thought you knew

more about life than me...

that you understood the world more.

That was again my mistake

Because your world is unreal!

It's a world of fiction

And there, people do only

what you want them to do

But people, emotions, humanity...

it's hard to understand them

I should've figured that

You think I don't understand

the human mind?

Nobody understands the human mind

better than shaukat wishes

You think I don't know

that he is hurt?

Still you...

- But what about the experience?

Every experience enriches us

Had you not met Yash, would

you be speaking to me like this?

You may not realise, but

you are disrespectful with me

It hurts you badly, no?

He must be aggrieved too

You wanted him to suffer

a heartbreak, right?

That was not decided

I had a different idea

Your tearful eyes

mar the truth, Antara

He can't live without you.

Because, I've written that

"I know..."

"countless teardrops washed away"

"countless sorrows melted away"

"Every dream blew up in smoke,

everytime you sauntered away"

"Don't go away"

"show me my mistake,

don't leave"

"Between truth and falsehood,

I was embroiled"

"I wished, but I could never pen

the real feelings of my heart"

"The agonies that came my way

took the shape of words"

"Don't go away"

"Please don't go"

Will you go with me, Tamanna...?

It's wrong

Let's write your story.

I've found my subject

The first twist in the story...

a desire

It's time you flew, Tamanna!

Hi, Yash. I'm shaukat. You will

now bring love into Tamanna's life

Today's a special day in

Tamanna's life

Tamanna's going to find

the love of her life today

Love, there will be.

Even if it's not culminated

sorry, Yash.

You got to die

What's this, shaukat?

You've reduced Antara to a mere word

I'm yours, shaukat...

your wife, your love

And you've turned my life

into fiction!

But how could you imagine that your

words can decide someone's destiny?

And... what is this that

you've written in the last pages?

I want to put the power of your words

to test. Let's see who wins

Antara's faith?

Or your words?

What happened?

What happened?

Yash felt very bad, did he?

Read this!

- What's this?

You knew everything, didn't you?

Without even seeing him

you knew he used to bite his nails!

How could you not guess

what he would go through?

I guessed it, that's why...

- Lies!

Lies! What did you think?

That Yash would kill himself?

You want to know

what I know?

Read this. Go on!

I won't be able to do it!

- Yash's suicide note! Read it

"My dear...". Read it!

My dear...?

- Respected!

"Respected Antara-ji..."

"I'm solving the test paper,

and I'm stuck on the last question"

"What am I to do now?

I'm writing the answer I know"

"This time I was late, next time

I'll arrive before your husband"

Isn't that what's written?

Read on

"I'll shut your smile...

- in a matchbox and take it away"

How... romantic!

Read on

"I don't know how far

I can carry it. For, I'm in a hurry"

"Else, if I stop...

- I might just carry you away"

"But you won't come with me"

"You are bound to punish me.

- And when punishment is inevitable..."

"I'd rather say farewell to you"

"Please smile, for my sake"

Isn't that what's written?

Right?

Each word... I have written.

Each word!

You don't believe it, no?

Nobody does

I have written every word.

I'll show you

It happened exactly like I wrote

How could you believe that, shaukat?

I have written down my goal

I have written my destiny.

Yours too

Hang on... where's that page?

Where?

Where's that page?

Lt'll happen just like I've written

Why are you standing there?

Come here and look for it

Where's that page?

Where's that page? Where?

Every word of it, I've written!

Where's that page?

It was right here.

Please find it

Yash is facing exactly what I wrote.

It'll happen with me too

I wrote it... every word

Every word of mine is true!

- What's happening, shaukat?

Yash isn't dead

find it!

I wrote every word

Each word... I wrote

I wrote every word of it

Will words defeat me?

Words, that have written your end,

cannot be true

Let my faith win

Please, shaukat

Did you find it?

The last page?

Find it, Antara,

else... I'll go insane

All that I've written till now

has come true

This will also turn true.

I'll go insane

No

Words are very powerful, Antara!

- Come to your senses, shaukat

I looked for it all night. All night

I want to change the end

I want to rephrase it

I don't want to kill anyone.

- You haven't killed anyone

I don't want to kill Yash.

- You haven't killed anyone

Look at me. You haven't killed anyone

I didn't want to kill him,

but Yash is dead

You haven't killed him. You can't!

Story is sheer imagination, not reality

I told you to let go!

Why didn't you stop yourself?

Why didn't you say "stop it!"?

Why didn't you say you love me?

- I love you!

Nothing will happen to you.

I won't let anything happen to you

I want to burn it

Why aren't you listening?

Yash isn't dead,

and nothing will happen to you

Why are you saying such things?

- But...

why did you love him?

I love you.

I love you, shaukat

Nothing will happen to you!

Find it... I'll burn it

Look Antara...

my future...

is coming.

- No shaukat

stop it!

I don't want to go

stop it, Antara!

Nothing will happen to you

I don't want to go.

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Leena Yadav

Leena Yadav (born 6 January 1971) is an Indian Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter & Editor. She started her career in the television industry and gradually moved on to making feature films. Her first international feature film, Parched, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival in 2015. more…

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