Speechless (2007)
Trivia
Amitabh Bachchan denied in an interview on 'CNN IBN TV show' that this movie is inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's novel 'Lolita'.
Before the film released a large protest was carried out in Amitabh Bachchan's hometown Allahabad; as protesters were unhappy to see superstar Amitabh Bachchan romancing a 18 year old, and felt this was totally unacceptable in the Indian culture.
After the release of the movie, Director 'Ram Gopal Verma' was served with a High Court notice for infringement of the movie title by award winning Bengali filmmaker Jahar Kanungo, whose similarly-titled film Reaching Silence (2005) won the Cinemaya Best Film and Best Actress award in 2004
This movie shows the exact same scheme of a French film called Un Moment d'Egarement, made in the late seventies.
Aftab Shivdasani worked with Big B for the first time, he played Amitabh's childhood role in Shaheenshah and Insaniyat.
K Shashilal Nair had announced a film titled "Lolita " in 2007 with the same subject as Nishabd. The film starred Jackie Shroff, Dimple Kapadia and new find Pallavi. When Ram Gopal Varma was questioned how he would deal with this he stated that his film Nishabd was different from Lolita. He only took the concept of age difference in Nishabd. Jiah Khan's character was not a minor. K. Shashilal Nair eventually ended up shelving his film.
