Can the Dead Communicate ?. Review on Saaya - Bollywood

Saaya is a movie said to be inspired by the Kevin Costner flick dragonfly. I haven’t seen dragonfly and now after watching Saaya I have an urge to see dragonfly.

Views this movie as a bollywood effort and this movie will catch your attention if not outright impress you.

The movie basically deals with the story of a husband and wife doctor duo (John Abraham and Tara Sharma). The wife, who is pregnant, dies on relief duty somewhere in the northeastern Indian State of Nagaland where she is on relief duty. The husband can’t get over the fact that his beloved is gone and he starts working in the hospital continuously. He also gets himself shifted to the same ward where his wife used to work and then he starts hearing her voice and strange things happen to him. Water starts falling from the ceiling; dead children come alive and tell him they have met his wife. His home starts turning into a waterfall cum swimming pool but only he can see this and feel this. All other people find this strange and think that he has lost his mind and gone crazy due to his wife’s death.

But an encounter with a former nurse turned nun who believes in life after death, the doctor starts to believe the his wife wants to communicate to him something. He starts of to find out what really happened to his wife and the climax of the movie is good, not quite what I expected.

Let’s examine the various aspects,

1) Actors – John Abraham is good but he needs to improve faster in the expressions department. Tara Sharma looks cute and doesn’t have much of acting to do but she is adequate. Of the supporting cast Mahima Choudhary as the friend, looks and acts well and the rest of the cast is ok.

2) The music – the song of the movie are slow, love songs and they gel with the movie. The background score is good too. The picturisation of songs is good and Kerela looks oh so inviting in the first song itself.

3) The Director – Anurag Basu is a new director and he has impressed in his first movie. Certain scenes like the dead child waking up suddenly to stare in the doctor’s eyes are well done, handled well. The producers have another small budget movie that I think should do better than what people are expecting.

Overall it’s a 2-hour movie that will keep you interested without boring you. I think this movie is worth seeing, though people may tend to disagree.