Well, its been too late for me to write something on this movie ’NAINA’.
Reason being this movie was not released worldwide.It released overseas after a long gap .
Because this movie was released much earlier in INDIA then in overseas, I heard a lot about this movie.A hype was created , and a goood hype.
So as soon as it was released here, i couldnt stop me to wathch this SUPER NATURAL THRILLER called NAINA
In overseas this movie was released by diffrent name ’EVIL EYES - NAINA’
Urmila Matondkar in the lead is used to perform this kind of role now.So this time it was also a effortless performence by her.
NAINA tells the story of a young woman, Naina [Urmila Matondkar], blinded in childhood by an accident. Twenty years later, she receives a cornea implant and with it, the ability to see again. When the bandages come off, Naina opens her eyes to see not only the world she left behind, but also the unsettling presence of people who aren’t really there -- dead people.
The cornea’s former owner was a girl with psychic powers, Khemi [Shweta Konnur], who could see dead people. A resident of Bhuj [in Gujarat], Khemi had witnessed and suffered much and her journey into the next world isn’t complete.
As Naina comes closer to finding the ill-fated donor, she begins to understand the truly horrific Cassandra complex with which she is cursed: Naina sees the future and yet is powerless to change it.
No one believes Naina. Not her grand-mother [Kamini Khanna], not even the sympathetic psychiatrist Sameer [Anuj Sawhney], who seems to have taken more than just a clinical interest in her.
Well the movie starts off with Urmilla Losing her eye sight and ends with the same as well.
In between was all the drama which takes place.
another performer othe then urmilla was the girl who played KHEMI in the movie , whos eyes are transplanted to Urmilla
She was brilliant
A few sequences in the first half do send a chill down the spine:-
Urmila’s initial encounters with the dead, after she regains the ability to see again.
Urmila’s experiences in the art gallery and also in the restaurant.
The intermission point -- when Urmila looks at the mirror, but what she sees is something else.
The underwater sequence [filmed in London with U.K.-based professionals]. One of the most outstanding underwater sequences witnessed on the Indian screen.
Technally speainkg , its good to see that Bollyood is coming up with such technically stuffed movie but, Story shudnt lose on the cost of technical issues.
Besides a captivating script, NAINA scores in those four vital departments that contribute enormously to a horror film -- sound design [Parikshit Lalwani], visual effects [Biju D.], cinematography [C.K. Muraleedharan, Jonathan Bloom] and background score [Salim-Sulaiman]. The art direction [Muneesh Sappel] is noteworthy, especially the ’Gujarat look’ in the second half.
On the whole, if you’re expecting scares from NAINA, you will not be disappointed. The film delivers the goods without insulting anyone’s intelligence.