It has its own uniqueness as well. It's not as thematically scary as its Hollywood counterpart, but you can always trust the Bhatts to make every steal their own signature. John Abraham plays Dr. Akash, husband to Tara Sharma's Dr. Maya, both very young and hopelessly in love with a baby on the way. One day, Maya packs her bags and decides she has to go help the less fortunate in villages that have been ravaged by natural disasters. Much to Akash's dismay, he begs her not to go but she uses the love card on him and gets her way. Unfortunately, she dies during a bus accident during a monsoon flood and Akash has to come to terms with this. Somehow he gets it through his head that Maya is trying to speak to him from beyond the grave and the whole movie from then on is spent trying to prove or disprove his theory. Mahima Choudry shows up here in the Kathy Bates character from the original movie, only she is a more sexier neighbour than Bates. Every time she appears on screen with Abraham, you just hope that somehow the Bhatt's wouldn't twist the script up and make Maya slap her from beyond the grave as Tanya (Choudry) has an undeniable sexual chemistry with Akash (Abraham) although this is never explored in the film. Tanya slaps Akash around a few times but this doesn't help to dissolve the chemistry between them. In one scene, Akash lashes out at Maya's mum during a dinner that she ought to know that only Maya referred to him as "Akki," yet somehow inexplicably Tanya ends up calling him Akki as well throughout the film. And even in some scenes, Tanya almost looks like a carbon copy of Maya. But yet again, this could have just been the Bhatt's trying to mark their own mark on the telling because there was no such possibilities with those two characters in the original movie. Abraham shines nevertheless as the heartbroken Akash and Choudry in the few scenes that she has, manages to steal them away from the main characters. Tara Sharma is good too, but her time on screen was just too brief to be a full fledged character. Her counterpart in the original film had more screen time, but that could be chocked up to the love scenes she (the original character) had to do with Kevin Costner in Dragonfly, which at the time Saaya was shot, such scenes were considered taboo in a mainstream Bollywood film. I give it 8 out of 10 stars. It's definitely worth seeing.
