Shabdo

Shabdo Sound is a 2013 Indian Bengali film directed by Kaushik Ganguly. The film revolves around the life of Tarak, a foley artist of Bengali film. Taraks job is to create ambient sounds for films, but, he gradually gets trapped in his own world, a world full of sound i.e. Shabdo It won the 60th National Film Awards for Best Feature Film in Bengali and the Best Audiography.

The film starts showing Taraks 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 Taraks 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 Rubiks 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 doctors advice Taraks 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 thats 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 disoriented. 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. ........

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