Director Hemanth Madhukar on how he intended ‘Nishabdham’ to be a small silent film, which has now mushroomed into an international project
Nishabdham (Silence in Tamil), starring Anushka Shetty, R Madhavan, Anjali, Shalini Pandey, Srinivas Avasarala and Michael Madsen, will stream on Amazon Prime on October 2. Nishabdham, which was filmed simultaneously in Telugu, Tamil and English, and later dubbed into Hindi and Malayalam, was originally conceptualised as a silent film.
The thriller set in the USA follows the case of a missing woman, and has Anushka as a mute artist and Madhavan as a musician.
Silence, please
In 2013, director Hemanth Madhukar was re-watching director Singeetam Srinivasa Rao’s silent film Pushpaka Vimanam (Pesum Padam in Tamil) starring Kamal Haasan, Amala and Tinnu Anand and thought it would be interesting to make a contemporary silent thriller….