On the day of the solar eclipse, a young girl of five loses her eyesight and her parents in a freak accident in London. Twenty years later, she gets a chance to see again thanks to the marvels of modern science. A cornea implant brings her vision back. Her period of darkness is over... or is it? With her vision restored, she begins to see a new world unknown to mankind. What is this curse that has been cast upon her? Will she ever be able to escape it?

Urmila is Naina, a young woman whose parents have died when she was very young. She lives in London with her grandmother and is blind. When she gets a cornea transplant from a girl who has died in Bhuj, India, she also gets that girl’s powers of seeing the dead and death. So not only does she see dead people she also sees the grim reaper coming to take the living. But what really gets her terrified is that the person she sees in the mirror is not herself but the dead girl, the explanation being that the eyes see only what it saw before. Go figure, the eyes have no difficulty seeing other new things and people.

Besides a captivating script, NAINA scores in those four vital departments that contribute enormously to a horror film -- sound design [Parikshit Lalwani], visual effects [Biju D.], cinematography [C.K. Muraleedharan, Jonathan Bloom] and background score [Salim-Sulaiman]. The art direction [Muneesh Sappel] is noteworthy, especially the 'Gujarat look' in the second half.

Anuj Sawhney is efficient, handling his part skilfully. Kamini Khanna is effective. But it is Khemi's mother, essayed by Amardeep Jha, as well as Khemi, enacted by Shweta Konnur, who attracts your attention in the post-interval portions. Dinesh Lamba, as the villager, is first-rate. Sulbha Arya is adequate.

On the whole, if you're expecting scares from NAINA.