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Overall Rating : 2.5/10
Directed By : Shripal Morakhia
Urmila Matondkar
Anuj Sawhney
Shweta Konnur
Amardeep Jha
Supplied By : Allumination Filmworks
Film Reviewed By : Rick L. Blalock
Date Reviewed : Jun. 6, 2006
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| PLOT 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 sense she is now bestowed with destroy her life? Will she ever be able to resume her regular life again? "Naina" is the Quest of a young woman trying to find answers to these supernatural mysteries. Will she succeed? |
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| THE REVIEW In NAINA, Naina is a 20 year old woman whom has been blind ever sense she was young, do to a freakish car accident that claimed the life of her parents. Now living with her Grandmother, Naina is scheduled to have an eye operation that would replace her old cornea with a new one, enabling her to see again. Well, in familiar fashion, her new cornea brings with it some heavy baggage, of pure evil. The old cornea belonged to a young female, believed to be a witch by her village in her native India, this girl was able to see death before it occurred, and in turn everyone believed she was crazy. Soon our character Naina, inherits the deceased girl's premonitions and her life becomes a hellish nightmare. Before going into this film, I knew what this would be, as this film sounds to much like Japan's THE EYE. The stories from the two films are almost mirror images, you could almost consider this India's remake of THE EYE. Now to be honest, I have not seen THE EYE in it's entirety, but the two films both involve cornea transplants, followed by the recipient having the nightmares of the previous "owner". I don't review foreign films very often but when I get the chance, I always expect something rather bazaar and shocking, but with NAINA I found it to be very tame. This may be because everything that occurs isn't all to original, from THE EYE, to the death premonitions being strikingly similar to FINAL DESTINATION. Speaking on such, NAINA seems to be influenced by many other films, as it has a flickering TV, ala RINGU/THE RING, to even a little girl donning a yellow raincoat whom drowns, awfully reminiscent to both DARK WATER films. Also to me, NAINA's plot is too basic, it is really just about a girl whom takes on the life of another after a transplant, and she begins to see death happen, different in many cases in foreign Horror, the plot is not to cleverly written as we have seen way too many films about the same things, over and over, no matter the language or origin. |
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| GORE
METER 2/10 The gore is very low here, a few charred bodies from a fire and a bloody baby.... |
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| MUSICAL
SCORE 5.5/10 The score to the film seems to have been inspired by American Horror films, there happens to be one piano track that reminded me of the A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET theme |
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| OVERALL
IMPRESSION OF THE FILM Overall, in my very honest opinion, NAINA was not too impressive to me. If you want originality, i'd recommend staying with the Japanese film THE EYE, which seemingly inspired the film... |
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