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Nisshabd - Reaching Silence - (2005) (A film by Jahar Kanungo)
DVD Rip -X.264 - 700MB
Please see Uploaders Notes Below
Synopsis: Sarit, a salesman in a small company, is so opressed by the overpowering cacophony of sounds in a big city that it starts affecting his life. He becomes jittery, his work suffers, he becomes impatient and ultimately his friends, including his girlfriend Tarala cut off relations with him.
To escape the continuous sounds, Sarit goes away to a village. But by now sounds have become an obsession with him. Any loud noise irritates him and he reacts strongly. In the village he meets Sonali and in the company of his chil;dhood friend and his wife, he starts seeing the beauty of life around him. He also discovers that it is discordant sounds that he abhors and that there is rhythm and beauty in the sounds of nature. By now a new obsession takes over. Sarit starts seeking rhythm everywhere and forgets the life and people around him. It leads to breakdown of relations again.
Sarit returns to the city, determined this time to cut out the discordant sounds from his life..
Comments: I was recommended this film by a friend who told me it was an unusual film. Unusual it is indeed - the story of a man's obsession with sound and how it affects his relationships with others. I was impressed by the films' beginning. Jahar Kanungo brought out the continuous oppressive and chaotic sounds of a big city so well, that for a moment I too started feeling like Sarit - oppressed and phobic!
Thats where it all ended. As the film wound on it just lost its way. The obsession of Sarit became so monotonous that the viewer starts getting irritated. His obsession with the quiet rhythm of nature is not brought out very well and the final solution to Sarit's problems is so utterly puerile that you feel like shouting - at the Director and the scriptwriter (Both incidentally Jahar Kanungo). There are occasional flashes of humour, but usually not very well conveyed.
The reddeming features are the two main actresses - Trinanilima Bannerjee and Sudeshna Basu. They alone lend some credibility to the film. The hero - Kaushik Chakrabarty should have been sent to the middle of the Sahara Desert. He would have found his silence and saved us the torture of watching him.
Jahar Kanungo is a great documentary film maker. He would do better to stick to his documentaries. His first feature film is a pretence at intellectualism and rather dissatisfying.
Still watch this film for its beautiful photography and the vivid portrayal of rural Bengal. Listen also to the old lullaby - "Khoka Ghumulo Para Juralo" - beautifully sung and with the rarely sung second line. And of course Trinalina and Sudeshna.
Probably a film worth downloading but not for preservation.
Tech Specifications:
General: Name of film:Nisshabd (Reaching Silence) Year/Date of Release: 2005 Genre: Feature Film Story, Script & DirectionJahar Kanungo Actors: Kaushik Chakrabarty (Sarit), Trinanilima Bannerjee (Sonali), Sudeshna Basu (Sarama), Rabishankar Kar (Dulu).
Uploader's Notes: The rip quality is excellent. For once I had a good original DVD (even though from moser baer) and it shows. I could really have used a frame size larger than 640x480. The original sound track has been preserved. Its unfortunate that in a film which is about sounds did not come with 5.1 surround, but that moser baer for you. Still the sound recording is very good and the result is impressive.
The good quality of the DVD means that the village scenes are a delight to watch. The verdant green of rural Bengal comes out vividly. The film is worth watcing just for that.
