NAINA is a supernatural / horror thriller directed by debutant Shripal Morakhia and is shot extensively in London. It has the talented Urmila Matondkar playing the lead role of 'Naina', a woman who experiences the unthinkable / unreal. She is ably supported by Anuj Sawhney, Shweta Konnur, Amardeep Jha and Kamini Khanna.
A gift She cannot control
A curse she cannot escape
A world she does not belong to
A light more frightening than darkness
A friend she doesn't need
A day of solar eclipse, a young girl of five loses her eyesight and her parents in a freak accident in London. Twenty years later, she is bestowed with the gift of sight. Thanks to the marvels of modern science, a cornea implant brings her vision back. Her period of darkness is over... or is it?
With the implant through which her vision is restored, she starts seeing a new world hitherto unknown to mankind. What is this curse that has been cast 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 the answers to these supernatural mysteries. WIll she succeed?
iDream Productions' 'NAINA' is slated for a May 20, 2005 release.