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Nirbaak tells stories of characters that demand a lot of empathy from the audience... The characters and their situations are quite offbeat and will require a deep of understanding about human nature.

However this was a very strong opportunity which misses the bull's eye. For example, the last part where the morgue guard falls in love with a corpse could have had a better... more subtle ending...

In many scenes it wasn't necessary to spoon feed the audience... Those who didn't understand the thought behind this film are hating it anyway... So why not go full throttle with metaphors? I just wish the director hadn't thought whether the audience will be able to understand and had went on passionately with the abstractness of his craft...

Film Nirbak has mainly four tales to tell . All of them are striking and their aesthetics is enchanting. All of them are worth reviewing more than once and all of them have their philosophical and ethical narratives on the sleeve. We have perhaps witnessed, in the second story, a contemporary deliberation of the Non- Anthropocentric ethical narrative of nature. And this is rare given that Bengali cinema although was imbibed once in philosophical creativity now only celebrates so called noir normalcy. Films that verge on creative and aesthetic variety that tends to be " non-mainstream " are easily sidelined by constant " mainstream " commercial –purpose –driven media propaganda.

Personification of the old tree and its relation with the lady and her lover is subtle. It requires vision on part of an artist to see what untold .It is requires talent to portray the same through visuals where dialogue plays its part not so much as it does in literature. The tree dreams of fantasies (Freudian ? ) of BDSM and ballerina with the lady . The tree whispers, although the lady can't hear them, the sound is carried by the wind it blows through the tree's branches. What a pity that the tree is immovable but all sorts of motion is played around it in a city that is still grappling with hegemonistic modernity through concrete, luxury cars and cell phones. The boyfriend is a typical smart gadget-money-honey-bunny-job happy self indulged metro dweller for whom life centers around possessions and materials and career and money and of course sex. Modern dreams everyone!! His career interests block way of his love expressions and he brings issues of adjustment, all of them that he sees through his materialistic looking glass. The lady is keen on the relationship but she is attached to the space around her – the space called Calcutta –her city, her moments of liberty and womanhood. Director does divine here to bring forth the tree for bestowing of a divine justice through sequences of funny scenes. Vision and the message is well expressed though. The tree is happy when finally it sees that its love, the lady, is accepted by her boyfriend not as a possession (like movable objects which he can carry from one city to another city catering to his career needs) but with humble mellowing gestures. The boyfriend relinquishes his possessive intentions for his lady love. The tree is now ready to relinquish its short lived affairs for the happiness it knows the lady will get now on. Nature thought about humans, we also think about nature, but do we allow our concerns to accept nature as it is, in its true totality or do we value nature just because our utilitarian intentions have logically prepared us to do so? Are we ready to accept that nature is intrinsically valuable and cautiously wiser than we are. Should we not go to nature , bow down before it with humble disposition deplete ourselves of conscious mental constructs of human superiority and accept that nature is not what we humans would want it to be for our own utilities but an existence intrinsically valuable in itself? Srijit has done great not only aesthetically but also philosophically. Even if this film is not accepted by our regular film critics or if movie watchers avoid this film sniffing at it with anti art -house rhetorical clichés (and by the way this is a new trend amongst our film critics in Bengal to label mega serial type dramas as Films) , still the purported philosophical and ethical quest that this film proposes is going to put this film on world standards.

What a beautiful film! I don't know why it has such low reputation. It's not that deep or anything. Anybody who pays attention to cinema can get it. It's also visually a treat to the eyes. I enjoyed Anjan Dutta's acting and Sushmita Sen, oh god! She was like a goddes in here!

Bravo Srijit!

People wont understand this today, they will need time. I see few one star rating , I feel bad for them. Amazing art work, must watch film & if you don't understand this peace of art - watch a Youtube review.

There are good movies, there are bad movies and then there are some that render you speechless. Besides fighting the dilemma that why is it that Srijit Mukherji directed this, you'll also find yourself scratching your head linking the sub-plots in the story. The first forty minutes move with an underwear clad, bathing, kissing himself, Anjan Dutt,and the next hundred minutes will definitely make you twitch in your seats with the question of 'What exactly is going on?" (Sarcasm here). Well, Mukherji does link the four sub-plots but in a way beyond comprehension, ranging up to the impossible. Impossible really! You'll also notice the plots being dragged continuously and you might be forced to get up and use the washroom. And if you have been a Mukherji fan, please avoid this movie or be brave to face the question -"What was Srijit Mukherji thinking?"

Oh yes, Don't forget, Dogs can Love truly too.

Love that cannot speak, speaks the loudest in its speechlessness- and so to summarize the film in these words, and yet it would be a gross formulaic understanding of what it offers. The complexity of relationships are not just abounded within some emotions; it is also the inter-relation among other characters, a veritable saga of love, self indulgence, hatred and obsession that push forth (or regresses?) the destiny of each characters. The film revolves around the story of four people (Samson. Rahul, Mritunjaya and an unnamed woman played by Sushmita Sen) and three speechless entities (dog, a tree and a dead person); their stories weaved through clever interconnections, offering different and personal perspective to their story. Also, it is the woman in the story who becomes the pivotal connector to all other destinies (including that of her herself). The first story is of a narcissist (Samson), who in his utter loneliness and with the death of his wife is trying to pull himself out of his excessive self indulgence by reading personality development books. The second story is of a woman, who is not ready to leave her city, for it is in here she finds her inner solace. Later, her love is reciprocated by a tree which showers bounties upon her as she sits under the shade of it. The third story is that of a couple ( Rahul and the same woman) who have moved to a new apartment, is met by the man's sulky and jealous dog, who develops a disliking for the woman. The last story of a morgue technician ( Mritunjaya) who gets obsessed with one of the recent corpses under his watch. Each story moves in a circle, and ends with a neat closure, and begins again, like the rondure movement of the cycle of birth and death. The film is a very insightful and ingenious take on the nature of love, and demonstrates that love is not only the property of those who can speak.

"Nirbaak" is not a mere film, its a medicine for cinephiles. Its a film which makes one understand why good is good and why bad is bad. A film you can watch after attending a film festival instantly enabling you to adjust to the regular popular movies. There's bad movies, B-movies, poor movies and then there is "Nirbaak", a new reference for low in pretentious manufactured film-making. Anjan Dutta has pained as before with few of his songs, most of his directorials and all of his writings on films. But teamed with Srijit he achieves an almost insurmountable.This is a what Germany did to Brazil in last Worldcup, VVS did to Steve Waugh in the Kolkata Test match. Jissu and Sushmita did not seem to have any clue of what they are doing, as if preparing and working on scrips handed over on a day to day basis. Ritwick makes a mark even here only proving himself to be leftover saving grace in an industry which produces and celebrates "Nirbaak". The design in the start credits and the song in the end credits is where anything watchable in the movie is limited to. Srijit wanted to have a poetry up his sleeve...he does that by the way. The cacophonous "Mishor", self patting "Chotuskone" or dumb "Hemlock" all rephrases themselves into poetry in comparison.

This movie deserve Oscar . I will remember the name of Srijit Mukharji who is the director of this film because I am amazed! I m speechless after watching this movie . I loved the direction , story telling , theme , acting , everything about this movie.

I can't believe that Mr. Mukherjee who direct Mishar Rahashya or Hemlock society can make this kind of learge scale move.... Totally control, balance and cool movie in one word

An extraordinary tale of four entities.international level concept being used to portray love .Love can be detrimental, can be soothing, can be conditional, can be fluke .A sense of separation is used to depicts nihilism .We failed as an audience. The old Srijit Mukherjee was a true auteur.

MASTERPIECE.

One single word can define this movie. Srijit Mukherji was a different kind of beast back then. I will call it as Prime Srijit Da. That's why he will always be one of the best director of our generation. Nirbaak or Speechless will make you actually speechless regarding it's theme. I don't know India is still ready to watch such groundbreaking thought provoking art. It was way ahead of time back then and it is still way way way ahead of time. A genius storytelling about different aspects of "love" and how it is the most twisted curse you will ever come across. Truly, how they say love is the most beautiful feeling in the world but what is love? (Baby don't hurt me) Okay sorry for the joke. But no seriously? What is love? What is it's form? How it's related to every one of us?

The truth about love is it has no shape. No form. No identity. No analogy. No defination. Love can come in different forms in different integrity. It can be evol too. It can be the most beautiful feeling too. But the end result is always the same. You will get hurt. The more you love, the more you will feel pain. Pain is inevitable. Now, coming to the anthology. All the stories are brilliant and perfectly portraying the 4 aspects and categories of love.

With Anjan Dutta story, love is in the form of extreme self obsession. A love where the only person that matters is you. Everything is about you. Narcissism at it's best. A world where you don't mind kissing yourself. Self love is very important but there's a thin line between self love and self obsession. His self obsession was the cause of his end. With the tree story, love came as an one sided lover. A tree completely infatuated with Sushmita Sen and can't tolerate anyone with her. That tree was never shy to express his feelings to her in every way but the day it saw Sushmita with Jishu, a storm ended it's life resulting the end of the stalker one sided love. With the dog story, love became possessive. Extreme possessiveness can actually harm the person you love and make them hate you. That dog was completely in love with Jishu and was happy with him until Sushmita barged into her life and made her turn insane resulting into the end of everything she loved. With the Ritwik story, love finally took the form of unconditional lover. A love where you don't even have to be alive. A love where you don't even have to move or talk or do anything. Just a sight of that cold body can satisfy the urge of love within seconds. Ritwik was completely and selflessly in love with Sushmita's dead body that in the end, he didn't even hesitated to sacrifice his own life to protect her body.

I don't even know what to say about this film. It's my top 10. Easily. The BGM, the actors, the cinematography, the direction, the screenplay. Everything was flawless. Masterpiece for me. Srijit Mukherji's best work till date.

It will make you uncomfortable but that's what love does. It will make you uncomfortable but you will find your peace exactly into the chaotic spiral of the so called most beautiful feeling in the world. Love. And if it's that deep, it will make you speechless forever.

One of the finest executions Srijit Mukherji has ever pulled off! The irony is though that Nirbaak ('Speechless' in English Translation) had me at a loss for words. For the unaware, It is a love story, but what makes this specific story stand out from the conventional ones is its phenomenal exhibition of eccentricities in the most gentle way possible.

There are four anecdotes in total, with each one of them having its own set of idiosyncrasy. The first story through a self-obsessing person promotes the notion of "Love Yourself", or should I rather say it takes that idea to newer altitudes. Whereas, In the second one, the writer with much conviction conveys a Tree's inexplicable feeling & affection towards a human being.

Then comes this story of a Female canine who's possessive of her Male owner, so much so that she cannot tolerate another woman's presence in the same house where she and her owner lives. And finally, in the concluding segment, we got ourselves a minor dosage of Necrophilia, through the moist eyes of a Diener (morgue worker) who seems to fantasize over a corpse of a woman who just came in.

If you've come this far into my review, you must be wondering, "What the heck is this film?"; well, let me tell you I had the same set of thoughts before tuning in. However, that skepticism didn't last long as I got lost in its innate storytelling from the very first shot. One of the most bizarre yet elegant pieces of art I have ever laid my eyes on.

Having watched 'Nirbaak' (Speechless) recently, a 2015 Bengali film directed by Srijit Mukherjee, I am in a bit of dilemma. Should I rate it as a good film, or a bad one? The initial thought that crossed my mind after the viewing of the film, which the director has dedicated to the master of surrealism- Salvador Dali, was that the film didn't make much sense to me. All the beautiful imagery and novel techniques employed in the depiction of Kolkata hitherto unseen could not force me to develop a liking for the film. Maybe the question you would pour forth is "why?". Well, for the kind of implausibility of the storyline - a women courted by three men, and hold your breath, a tree!!! Well, you can't really blame the tree for developing those amorous feelings when the lady is Susmita Sen, eh?

I have always had a soft corner for experimental films that break the conventional style, and Srijit masterfully breaks all cinematic idioms in this work and came up with a film that stretches your power of imagination and takes you on a journey rather unfamiliar on the Indian cinemascape. The film deserves a watch for the bold attempt to tell a different kind of romantic story using some brilliant cinematic moments. Anjan Dutt, Jishu Sengupta, and Ritwik Chakrabarty are the three male leads in the film, in which a dog too features in a prominent role.

Rating: 4 out of 5.