Character Sketch

Sanjay Dutt as Shaukat Vashisht
He conquered the world with his words till love challenged him.
A gifted writer Shaukat finds himself battling the words he once lorded over. Stunned by the failure of his second novel, Shaukat will put anything at stake to regain his grip on reality and the written word. Even his love…

Aishwarya Rai as Antara Vashisht
She gambled everything for love but was she the game?
Antara is a professor of fashion technology. She loves Shaukat unquestionably. Overawed and often overshadowed by Shaukat and his words, she embarks on a tumultuous journey of love, where she must love to express it, redefine it and more importantly choose it.

Zayed Khan as Yash
He knew he loved her. Beyond that he knew nothing.
Yash is a professor of photography. He is love, laughter and sunshine. He has no shadows of the past and no promises for the future. Yash is in love. Here and now.

Storyline

Writers down the ages have always prided their skills to be superior to any warrior's. The written word is and has been one of the most potent weapons man has ever created. What happens when a writer feels he can wield the power of the word to create or rather conquer reality?

Shabd is the story of Shaukat, a gifted writer who's reeling from the critical failure of his last novel. Antara, his reticent and sensitive wife supports him indisputably. To regain his command on writing, Shaukat decides to incorporate his story into his real life and subsequently slot in the twists and turns of the real life incidents into his story.

Antara comes across Yash, a man who's impossible not to fall in love with. However she does not show any romantic inclination towards him until her husband Shaukat asks her to diabolically indulge in a relationship with Yash for the sake of his story. Shaukat strongly believes that the real life escapades between Antara and Yash will add meat and heat to his story.

But little does Shaukat realize that in his process Antara is actually fascinated by Yash. And then comes the twist in his story that he hadn't anticipated. But by the time he tries to change the direction in which his novel (and also his real life) are heading into… it is a bit too late.

Crew

Produced under the banner of Pritish Nandy Communications, Shabd is produced by Rangita Pritish Nandy and is written and directed by debutante Leena Yadav. The film has music by Vishal-Shekhar.

Release date

The film will release in January 2005