Shabd stars Sanjay Dutt, Aishwarya Rai, and Zayed Khan.#

The movie is very thoughtful and attempts to be profound and uncomfortable. However, it seems a bit contrived and too over-the-top. I quote an IMDB reviewer:#

Shabd is too conceptual and too tentative in its approach. Debutant director Leena Yadav tells a story in Shabd that is very modern in its approach. Shaukat (Sanjay Dutt) does not believe in disappointment but when it comes to him as his own disaster, he is not able to accept it easily. He has a gorgeous wife Antara (Aishwarya Rai) who is very responsive and very thoughtful. She will do anything to make her husband grin. Having earned disgrace with his unusual novel, Shaukat now makes a bid to enact the novel in his real life using himself and Antara as the fundamental characters. Sanjay Dutt supports his wife Aishwarya Rai to have an extra-marital affair with her colleague Zayed Khan, so that the husband could integrate life-like, realistic situations in his current novel.

Can it ever get weirder than this?

I agree with the reviewer that the music and Sanjay's acting is very good. Aishwarya shines at the end and I thought she did fairly well throughout. I thought Zayed was too boyish to consider him truly in love, although his childish in the movie was helped by his looks.#

Recommendation: Low to Medium.#