Naina (2005)

Director:

Shripal Morakhia

Writers:

Shripal Morakhia (screenplay)
Sagar Pandya (writer)

Release Date:

20 May 2005 (India)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

The eyes that saw the dead ... and death

Plot:

On a day of solar eclipse, five year old, Naina, loses her eyesight and her parents in a road accident in London...

Plot Keywords:

London England | Tense | Woman In Jeopardy | Remake Of Japanese Film | Ghost

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Urmila Matondkar	...	Naina
Anuj Sawhney	...	Dr. Samir Patel
Shweta Konnur	...	Khemi
Amardeep Jha
Kamini Khanna	...	Naina's Grandmother
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sulabha Arya	...	Parvati Amma
Morne Botes	...	Burn Victim
Dinesh Lamba	...	Villager
Tom Saville	...	Misc

Also Known As:

Evil Eyes (International: English title) (informal literal title)

Runtime:

UK:103 min | UK:104 min

Country:

India | UK

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Malaysia:18PL | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

India

Company:

iDream Productions

Movie Connections:

Remake of Gin gwai (2002)

Indian remake of "The Eye" is not bad, but brings nothing new

I rather liked this, but it's not much more than a remake of "The Eye", the film from the Pang Brothers (Jian Gui). A woman has a cornea transplant from an anonymous donor and when she realizes that she sees things that no one else can, she of course, becomes alarmed. Particularly when she sees another woman's reflection when she looks in a mirror. She and her psychiatrist boyfriend, Sameer, fly to India to find who the donor was, and it was a woman that the local villagers deemed a witch, because she could foretell death. I suppose technically, she could see the future, but death is what the future held, so therefore she was cursing people so that they died. This, of course, made her somewhat unpopular, until she finally did herself in. And Naina got her corneas. Until Naina & Sameer left for India from London, this all seemed rather routine stuff, but when in India the film became more interesting, and upon return to London, more interesting still, as Naina sees disaster coming but no one will heed her. It has been a few years since I saw "The Eye", so I'd have to go back to see that one again to see how close it is to this version, but this film is still not bad, and worth seeing if you like Asian horror. This is not gory but more spooky than anything, as was the original, but I wouldn't just write it off as a terrible remake either. 6 out of 10.