Shabd is a 2005 Bollywood movie produced by Pritish Nandy Communications, and directed by Leena Yadav. It stars Sanjay Dutt, Aishwarya Rai and Zayed Khan. The film got good reviews but failed at the Box Office
Sanjay Dutt is a Booker Prize-winning writer, whose latest work has been criticised by one and all for being too surreal for anyone's liking. Aishwarya Rai, his wife, supports him nevertheless.
Shaukat has some weird plans for his next book though. He decides to
manufacture a realistic story by making Antara hide her marital status
from Zayed Khan
and pursue a relationship with him. Things go wrong as Antara begins to
have real feelings for Yash. (She still loves Shaukat though.)
Whatever Shaukat pens turns out to be true. He starts to believe hecan change Antara's and Yash's fate by his writings, and writes
according to his logic that Yash would commit suicide after getting to
know Antara's reality. However, Antara soon coms to know of this. She
lies to Shaukat that Yash really committed suicide in order to
disillusion Shaukat. Shaukat, out of guilt, becomes schizophrenic. The
film ends on a disturbing note: Antara sends Shaukat to an asylum, due
to his schizophrenia.
