Shabdo | শব্দ | Bengali Movie | Ritwik | Raima | Srijit | Churni | Kaushik Ganguly | National Award

Direction By Kaushik Ganguly
Cinematography By Sirsha Ray
Editing By Mainak Bhowmik
Music By

Leading Starcast By Ritwik Chakraborty, Raima Sen, Srijit Mukherjee, Churni Ganguly, Victor Banerjee, Kaushik Ganguly, Arun Guha Thakurta and others.

Plot:
The protagonist of the film is Tarak Dutta (Ritwik Chakraborty), a foley artist. He is so obsessed with his work that he loses his grip on words and his mind starts registering only foley sounds.
The film starts showing Tarak's distraught wife who has taken him to a psychiatrist for treatment because she feels that he lives in a world of his own. The psychiatrist (Churni Ganguly) discovers that actually there is nothing wrong with Tarak's hearing ability. He just concentrates so much on background sounds that he does not pay attention to vocal sounds. While the doctor is speaking to him, Tarak is busy listening to the sounds of traffic in the streets or the sound of the Rubik's cube that she is holding in her hands. The doctor tries to convince Tarak that he has a serious problem and he needs treatment. But Tarak is not ready to believe that he has any problem. On the doctor's advice Tarak's wife take him to Siliguri for a short holiday. Even there Tarak keeps listening to all the natural sounds like the twittering of birds or the gush of water in a mountain spring. On the trip, Tarak tries to convince his wife that there is nothing wrong with him. He just keeps thinking about sounds because that's his job.
Tarak starts rebelling against the doctor and refuse to take treatment. Things come to a head, when the doctor tries to talk to him through headphones at this recording studio and Tarak breaks the mike in anger. With all her efforts gone to waste the doctor refers him to her professor (Victor Banerjee). Tarak loses his job and becomes quite depressed. He is always haunted by sounds and without his job he starts feeling dis-oriented. One day he tries to commit suicide. Finally, the doctors send Tarak to a rehabilitation center where he is made to listen to recorded human voices daily to get back to normal.

Year of Release 2013

Major Awards & Recognition:
* Winner of Best Bengali Film Award At National Film Awards
* Winner of Best Sound Designing Award At National Film Awards
* Winner of Best Film Award At Indian Panorama of international Film Festival of India
* Official Selection At International Film Festival of Kerala
* Official Selection At Singapore Film Festival
* Official Selection At Dubai Film Festival

Trivia:
* Rudranil Ghosh was firstly thought for the lead role of Tarak which eventually went to Ritwik Chakraborty.
* Leading Bengali newspaper Anandabazar Patrika called the film a "silent revolution" and gave it 9.5 out of 10 stars which was Anandabazar's all time highest.
* Leading English newspaper The Times of India in their review commented that the film was very much different from other contemporary Indian and Bengali films and they also offered a "bow" to director Kaushik Ganguly for making such a film on a crucial subject of cinema.

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