PM: You're playing the character of an older man attracted to a much younger girl. Would it be right to say that it is an extension of your sexy Sam character?
PM: Considering that this is kind of an out of the ordinary relationship, what is that little extra you had to put in to make the character convincing?
AB: Nothing. Ram Gopal Verma wrote the script, which had all the elements for what he wanted to project, and we followed that. I can't relate those incidents to you because the film is yet to be released, but I think they have been very adequately handled and very sensitively done. Unlike the impression that this is some sort of promiscuous, sexually motivated, physicality-intensive film, it isn’t. It doesn’t have such overtures at all.
It is a situation that has happened in their lives. There is an attraction that develops and what they do about it. That is what the film is about.
PM: From what we've seen of the film in the promos, there is a certain undercurrent of sexual tension. You're saying that the film doesn’t actually have the physicality depicted and that it is only at the mental level?
AB: Yes it is. It has been talked of, that this is some kind of a 'Lolita'. But it isn’t. And because Lolita did have some physicality in it that is why the thought follows that this film will too. Whenever you see a visual, you assume that that is what the film will be, it isn’t.
Visuals of her are to depict the nature of the character, which is a little wilder, more free thinking a little more bold in demeanour but that doesn’t mean she indulges in any kind of physicality. That is how the film has been structured.
Once again, Amitabh Bachchan has clearly stated that Nishabd does not focus on sexual relationship rather on the mental conflicts of the two people. Still, many of his fans are unhappy for his acting in such a character. I hope and pray an end to all these controversies.
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