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NainaYou're Better off Blind!

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Credits
Producer/s:	Firuzi Khan, Ashish Bhatnagar
Director:	Shripal Morakhia
Cast:	Urmila Matondkar, Anuj Sawhney, Shweta Konnur, Amardeep Jha, Kamini Khanna, Sulabha Arya

'You're Better off Blind!', seems to be the message, loud and clear, in the film. Don't know if this makes sense to you but maybe it will after you hear the story.

Actually what story? On a Solar Eclipse day, 5-year-old Naina (Urmila Matondkar) is on an outing with her parents in London. Almost the entire film has been shot in London. The car meets with an accident. Naina's parents are killed on the spot and she turns blind. There are cuts to a hospital scene where a woman in a village gives birth to a stillborn child. The death of Naina's parents breathes life into the child. We wonder what the connection is but the unraveling of the mystery in the last half hour sort of explains it.

Twenty years later, Naina undergoes a cornea implant and regains her sight. Considering they are living in London and are wealthy, it makes one wonder why the long wait to have Naina's eyesight restored. Besides the hospital staff in London, and a few shots on the London roads, there is nothing else to indicate that the story is based in London.

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