Well, I was one of the unfortunate few who happened to watch NAINA in the first day of its release. How much ever tolerant iam towards the average Indian film makers' mistakes and bloopers, NAINA comes as a big challenge to my levels of tolerance. Well, Iam not a great fan of hollywood horror movies myself - and yes I did admire movies like BHOOT where Urmila made you skip a heart beat or two with her spell binding performance. But - NAINA - iam sorry - is a desperate attempt to scare the indian audience ignoring the fact that the bars of indian cinema standards have been time and again been raised. May be NAINA would have been a real thriller in the mid nineties, but now - iam sorry, it leaves you bored and tired at the end of it. I should admit that it does have some stunning visuals - but too much of gore and blood and burnt corpses and biopsy tables leave you with a pukish feeling. the tube rail blast and few other such scenes are well conceived ideas but badly executed - may be due to budget constraints, but all the same, i recall an early 90's rap number "ICE ICE BABY" which say...." anything less than the best is a felony !!!"
dear suki congrats on the mindblowing review. it definitely reflects your Asian Filmi funda. keep it up add more to data base. but a piece of advice from a veteran ie me,dont evr follow Khalid in dropping names. review a FILM WHICH IS WORTH REVIEWING.urmila and srk comparison is not proper. she got scared in one film? anyhow kudos for the guts to take on Bollywood. idream production the producers after a lot of scrutiny passeda lifted script why cant they try something original? nainas failure at the box office shd open their eyes
I cannot agree with you regarding your view that a proper ending is not required. I havent seen the movie 'NAINA' yet. But it doesnt make sense that since a movie is having a proper ending, it can't be included in a good movie list. The movie 'KAAL' was very dissappointing to me.It doesnt give a solution to a mystery,which is unacceptable from a common man point of view. The Indian movies are living in a realistic world unlike the Hollywood or your southeast movies. We are not ready to believe and we are not fools to believe that supernatural things exist. If there is a mystery, it will have a solution and we want that solution. Sir, you please come down to the realistic world and review things.
This is for the Common Man, who posted his message on Naina. May be you should wake up and realise that when Black made an impact, it was not just because of Bhansali's direction, Rani's and Bachchan's amazing acting skills, Ayesha's stunning debut and that brilliant photography. it was also because it conformed to world standards technically and otherwise. A remake is fine and Indian cinema has a lot of potential, but every remake doesnt have to earn laurels when all it does is copies the original and replaces the element of horror(in case of Naina) with gore and blood. This film was meant to horrify, not make you nauseous. World cinema, whether Thai, Chinese, Korean , Japanese or otherwise. Dark Water, for instance, looks very understated, but its that same understated quality that horrifies you when the psychologicak impact is made. We dont always need apparitions and blood to scare us, that is the Ramsay's forte. Give credit where it is due. The question is not one of putting down Indian and glorifying all that is not. the issue is, lets get realistic.If you ever bother to study world cinema, and happen to see Touch of Evil or Hitchcocks' films, u will see what i mean.
hey due (writer of this review) see now your review was more borin than the movie i think coz less than the movie u were more into chinawood(if any) and hollywood. see we didn`t ask u to give us review about THE EYE OR THE NOSE nd we don`t care what chinese movies u watch ! you were supposed to jus give us a review about naina okie and i don`t think its THAT borin as u think it is (u seem to be more bored with your life it seems) so dude forget chinese or hollywood and jus give us bollywsood reviews with some indian sense !
Mr ya Miss Sukanya.. wah bhai wah what a name. be sincere and honest to urself ,, have u ever given a movie a good review ,bcas aacording to you each and every movie is flop and must not see. look either u r suffering from something or u don't know a damn thing. wud appreciate if u stop giving negative review, and i think u were also trying to become a screenplay or story writer righyt . aha so someone gave bad review to ur movie so what every movie is bad. man pls go and do some treatments of your . u r really a pain . man i don't know how does rediff tolerates you.
anyways heck with you and your damn reveiew who care for ur review also.for all of us u r nothing else but waste of time and waste of enerygy reading all ur silly coments . and also btw how much does hollywood pays for u writing this or who hired u to write this kind of silly comments.
I think u must be the biggest nightmare and horror for all the movie producers chuckle chuckle chuckle :-) hehehehehe..
If you watch the last month "Rooh" serial on ZeeTV, or you like to watch horror movies then there is no need of wasting money on this. Because the story is 95% same and there is nothing new in this.
Some critic writer which called for special screening of film mentioned in the review that movie is Spine-chilling, but in reality movie is spine-paining, and have lots of flaws like the last wish of eye donor is mother called him once or say please dont die when she committed suicide but when mother was badly drunked then how is it possible.
Visual effects by Biju.D (Maya Entertainment Ltd.) is really very down market, and in the first shot, the particles going in the child urmila eyes not looks like a mirror. But urmila mentioned in the TV interview that due to glass particles I lost the eyes in the movie "Naina".
After Kaal another rubbish horror(comedy) movie. NOT RECOMMENDED.
Hi ! everyone ! This is to tell you that please send me your views on NAINA as my brother-in-law is a Production controller fort his movie. And hence i can pass on all you pl=eople's views to him so that it helps him in his next movie.
I have noticed that this trend of trashing every movie by alluding that it is a copy of this and that movie has caught on all reviewers like a virus. It is possible that they have seen all those movies and hence are unable to appreciate the new movie as it is. Hence their opinions will be biased because they are based on comparison with the so called original movie they saw earlier. What they should note is that the common movie going public like have not seen all those movies (definitely none of the exotic ones mentioned in this review) and hence dont compare with them. What we want in a review is an honest review of the movie as it is and not a comparison with others. Finally i feel that considering the total number of movies made in the world per year, and that there are only N number of stories and scenes, repetition is inevitable. So if you take nobody can be said to have original thoughts because the letters ABCDEF.. have already been written earler! This is nonsense. Hope this lets someone think...... NOT ORIGINALLY!
