Nishabd : Inspired from Poison Ivy (film)!!

Nishabd (Devnagari: निशब्द, meaning wordless) is a 2007 Bollywood movie directed by Ram Gopal Varma, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Jiah Khan inspired from Poison Ivy (film) (1992).

The film opens with young Ritu (Shraddha Arya) inviting her friend Jia (Jiah Khan) to spend the holidays with her at her home in Kerala. Ritu's parents Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) and Amrita (Revathi) make a beautiful home surrounded by picture-perfect surroundings. Vijay is a photographer and Amrita is a homemaker.

Jia has a dark past. Her mother lives alone in Australia and Jia studies in India. She is a free spirited girl with no attachments and no worries. She professes some affinity to Vijay but it doesn't go much further than that. But Vijay's world is turned upside down when he takes pictures of Jia watering herself down with the garden hose. Something innocent grows into something bigger, and something bigger grows into something beyond control.

Jia's world collides with Vijay's world causing three casualties. Ritu witnesses an intimate moment between Vijay and Jia and tries to get Jia out of the house without revealing the truth to her mother,but fails. Around this time, Amrita's brother Shridhar (Nassar) visits them. Through a sequence of events, he uncovers the disturbing truth about Jia and Vijay. Shridhar questions Vijay and realises that things are serious between Jia and Vijay. Vijay confesses his love for Jia to Amrita leaving her shattered.

Rishi(Aftab Shivdasani), the unrequited lover of Jia visits to surprise Jia on her birthday. Shridhar tells Vijay to objectively look at things and decide if he is right for Jia. Vijay realises that the relationship with Jia is not the best for her and tells her to leave. Jia is heartbroken and calls him a hypocrite and leaves with Rishi.

The family is still in pieces after Jia's departure. Ritu leaves for America and Amrita is unable to forgive her husband. We see Vijay reliving his moments with Jia all the time. He drives for hours and finally stands on top of cliff ready to jump. But then he remembers his moments with Jia and returns home.

Shridhar asks Vijay where he had gone and Vijay tells him he had gone to die. The film ends with his conversation with Shridhar saying that he is not scared of death. He says he has nothing left to live for, no wife, no daughter, no Jia. But he came back as he wants to live for a while with Jia's memory; that's all.

* Amitabh Bachchan as Vijay
* Jiah Khan as Jia
* Revathi as Amrita
* Nassar as Shridhar
* Aftab Shivdasani as Rishi

The film was shot in 20 days.[1] The movie was shot at Munnar in Kerala.[2] The claim that it was inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was denied by Amitabh Bachchan in the CNN IBN TV show Unspoken relationships - Nishabd special (3 March 2007).

Recently Ram Gopal Verma has been served with a High Court notice for infringement of the movie title by award winning Bengali filmmaker Jahar Kanungo whose film titled Nisshabd won the Cinemaya Best Film and Best Actress award in 2004.[3]