Naina (2005)

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

I wonder why this movie had three writers since all Shripal Morakhia did was rip-off almost every frame of the Pang Brothers' captivating movie 'Jian Gui'. Not only does it copy the aforementioned movie, but it does so terribly. Morakhia Bollywoodizes it by making the main character an NRI (non-residential Indian) based in England where everybody seems to speak Hindi. There are no songs but the romance between Naina and her psychiatrist looks rushed. The jump moments are laughably bad while the special effects are mostly adequate. Urmila Matondkar is competent. This is far from her best work but she is terrific in the non-'jump' scenes. What made her choose to do this? The rest of the actors are passable at best. I'm surprised the film was accepted at the Sitges Film Festival because I hardly see any appeal in it. It's a bad movie that has an Indian Hollywoodish B-grade feel to it.

I was expecting Naina to be a really good movie after I read the interesting story about a girl in London who lost her eyesight and parents in a car accident. She was raised by her grandmother and when she became a young woman she got an eyes donor. After the operation she started to see strange things like dead people, shadows and bad incidents that are yet to happen. The first half was quite good and relentless but the second half was very slow, boring and depressing when Naina went to India from London to unsolve the mystery. If you liked Urmila's other two horror films Kaun & Bhoot then Naina is probably the film for you. Personally I liked both of them. It is a remake of a Korean film "The Eye" I've not seen it but most people said that The Eye is better and I think that the Hollywood version is due to the end of 2007 but i'm not sure. Overall this film is OK to be watched once and my verdict is 5/10 if the second half was good then I might of given it a 6-7 out of 10 but their is no chance that I will rate it 8-10 out of 10.

I really hate to trash movies, but "Naina" deserves it. I couldn't even bring myself to finish it because of the poor quality.I usually find it hard to judge acting abilities or script quality in foreign films, but both we absolutely worthless in this movie. The actors sometimes spoke in Hindi and sometimes English, even within the same sentence, at times. The whole dialog track was dubbed, and some of the English voices were completely laughable. On the DVD cover, one of the blurbs commends the superior special effects... let me just say that there is an ill child in the beginning of the film who is bald, and I'm pretty sure they sell better "bald" caps at joke stores.Don't waste your time and/or money on "Naina," watch "The Eye" instead.

The "Bhoot" of film Bhoot is still haunting Urmila and she is back to her histrionics and antics viz. screaming, flaring nostrils, Popping eyes et al. Imagine, the audience is subjected to Urmila making faces to camera for two plus hours. Unfortunately, there is no competent actor (like Ajay Devgan in Bhoot) to counterbalance these acts with his restrained, underplayed performance. Is it a show reel of Urmila's fear factor ? All this in the name of supernatural thriller packed with visual gimmicks, sorry effects ?. Too Much !!. Dearest director Shripal Morakhia, don't pick-up film-making influenced from Hollywood horror DVDs instead get real with your own story-telling. "Naina Barse Rim jhim Rim jhim"- can be a case only for distributors of this film as "Note nahi barse" at box-office.