Aishwarya Rai Movie:

Editorial Review:
SHABD tells the story of Shaukat [Sanjay Dutt], a gifted writer who's reeling from the critical failure of his last novel. Antra [Aishwarya Rai], his reticent and sensitive wife, supports him indisputably. To regain his command on writing, Shaukat decides to incorporate his story into his real life. Antra comes across Yash [Zayed Khan], a man who's impossible not to fall in love with. However, she does not show any romantic inclination towards him until her husband Shaukat asks her to indulge in a relationship with Yash for the sake of his story. Shaukat strongly believes that the real life escapades between Antra and Yash will add meat and heat to his story. But little does Shaukat realize that Antra is actually fascinated by Yash. And then comes the twist in his story that he hadn't anticipated. But by the time Shaukat tries to change the direction in which his novel [and also his real life] is heading into, it's a bit too late. Besides a weird plot, SHABD suffers grossly in the screenplay department. Soon after the characters are established and Sanju encourages Ash to have an affair with Zayed, Ash refuses Sanju's proposal instantaneously because, [i] she's a married woman and [ii] she loves her husband dearly. Ash even tells Sanju that the next time Zayed tries to get [over] friendly with her, she'd reveal her marital status to him. But, in the very next scene, when Zayed continues to flirt with Ash and even broaches the topic of his dream woman [hinting at Ash], she continues to sit right next to him and even cracks a joke. Why didn't she tell him then and there that she's already married? Why didn't she nip it in the bud? In fact, Ash conceals her marital status right till the pre-climax, though she's torn by the guilt all the while. Why?