Naina (2005 film)

This article is about the 2005 film. For the 1973 film, see Naina (1973 film). For the village in Iran, see Naina, Iran.

Naina
Theatrical release poster
Directed byShripal Morakhia
Screenplay byShripal Morakhia
Based onThe Eye by
Pang brothers
Produced bySagar Pandya
Anjum Rajabali
Rakesh Mehra
StarringUrmila Matondkar
Anuj Sawhney
Amardeep Sinha
Shweta Konnur
Kamini Khanna
CinematographyC.K. Muralidharan
Edited byAmitabh Shukla
Sanjay Shukla
Music bySalim–Sulaiman
Production
company
iDream Productions
Distributed bySPE Films India
Release date
  • 20 May 2005 (2005-05-20)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹5 crore[1]
Box office₹6.94 crore[1]

Naina is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language supernatural horror film directed by Shripal Morakhia and starring Urmila Matondkar as the titular character who loses her sight as a child, regains it as an adult with corneal transplantation and starts seeing images beyond the general surroundings.[2] The film is an unofficial remake of the 2002 Hong Kong-Singaporean horror film The Eye directed by the Pang brothers, with a subplot borrowed from the 2002 Japanese film Dark Water.[a][3][4][5]

The film was premiered in the Marché du Film section of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.[6][7] Released theatrically on 20 May 2005, Naina flopped at the box office, grossing ₹6.94 crore against a ₹5 crore budget.[1] It was also controversial because its depiction of the protagonist seeing ghosts after receiving a corneal transplantation was similar to existing fears in India surrounding corneal transplants and it was feared the film would discourage people from donating corneas or seeking corneal transplants.[8][9][10]

  1. ^ a b c "Naina - Movie". Box Office India.
  2. ^ "'Naina is not another Bhoot'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 30 April 2005.
  3. ^ "Naina, all blood and gore, is a bore". Rediff.com. Retrieved 20 May 2005. Two scenes later, however, it becomes a tacky scene-to-scene reproduction of the Chinese supernatural hit, Jian Gui aka The Eye [...] The entire girl-in-a-raincoat sub-plot is conveniently borrowed from Hideo Nakata's Japanese horror, Honogurai Mizu No Soko Kara, aka Dark Water.
  4. ^ "Watch Bollywood Remakes of 'Scream', 'Fright Night', and 'The Eye' on SCREAMBOX Right Now!". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Naina isn't a copy: Shripal Morakhia". Nowrunning.com. Retrieved 22 May 2005. He's even more stupefied by the premature assessments that his film is a "scene by scene" remake of the Chinese film The Eye [...] But to say that Naina is a remake of any one particular film is completely wrong. This is my own film, and that's the way I want to see it.
  6. ^ "'Naina' world premiere at Cannes". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 5 April 2005.
  7. ^ "The Hindu : Entertainment Bangalore / Cinema : Cannes premier for Naina". Archived from the original on 4 February 2010.
  8. ^ Chandra, Anjali (24 May 2005). "Seeing is not believing". The Times of India. Retrieved 6 October 2007.
  9. ^ "NAB also fails to see eye-to-eye with 'Naina'". Afternoon, Bombay, India. Cybernoon. 20 May 2005. Retrieved 6 October 2007.[dead link‍]
  10. ^ "Eye doctors see red over spooky movie". IOL. 21 May 2005. Retrieved 6 October 2007.


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