Shabdo[α] (Sound) is a 2012 Indian Bengali film directed by Kaushik Ganguly.

He is so obsessed with his work that he loses his grip on words and his mind starts registering only Foley sounds.

The film starts showing Tarak's distraught wife who has taken him to a psychiatrist for treatment because she feels that he lives in a world of his own.

Even there Tarak keeps listening to all the natural sounds like the twittering of birds or the gush of water in a mountain spring.

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.

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.

[8] Shobdo, in terms of its portrayal of a variety of sound and the difference among them, is widely viewed to be influenced by The Silence under the direction of Mohsen Makhmalbaf.