Naina
Naina
| 20 May 2005 (USA)
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On a day of solar eclipse, five year old, Naina, loses her eyesight and her parents in a road accident in London. Twenty years later, she is bestowed with the gift of sight thanks to the marvels of modern science. Her period of darkness is over; or is it? A horrifying period of darkness begins. What is this curse that has been upon her? Will she ever be able to escape it? Will this extraordinary s

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LouHomey From my favorite movies..
Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.
Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
amycass The only spoiler you need to avoid is this movie. As it will spoil your evening. Its funny that in India cows can be considered sacred, but apparently not my time. What can be said about this movie that already has not been said about Afghanistan? Its advertised as the story of a girl who lost her eyesight, not talent. I see now why India doesn't have a Hollywood! Bad acting. And please, pick a language. If you're looking for the soundtrack, just save yourself the time and download drums. I wish I was blind after seeing this film. Even the cows didn't want to take part in this film. This is 105 minutes of my life that I will never get back.
Chrysanthepop 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.
springsunnywinter 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.
liquid2140 This movie is truly worthy of its award nomination for best technical rerecording .....of another movie and while I was looking forward to Shripal Morakhia's venturing into future re-recordings of similar technical precision, I was pleasantly surprise to see that the tag-line for Morakhia's latest work "The Sick House" is identical to the title of the book "Lord Have Mercy Upon Us, London's Plague Years" by Steven Porter published in 2005. The genius of it all is that Shripal's new villain is to be known as the Plague Doctor.for some further variations to the "I see dead people"/they live among us" theme, check out 6th Sense, The Others and Angel Heart instead.Come give us another one!