On the face of it, this low-budget film successively entertains with an engaging story told skilfully by a very good cast of ensemble actors playing a properly paced plot which escalates the growing tension to climax, and the moving 'moral' of the tale as told by mother to daughter makes the whole movie worth watching on its own merits ("we have to understand that we cannot change the fact that there will always be men like that...but it's not our fault...and we must fight them, mother and daughter together...").
That said - the problems of this movie are annoying avoidable and prevent it from being much better than was possible.
For starters, it takes an actor with considerably more on-camera charisma and/or physical beauty to complement and compete with the power-house presence of Sarita Choudhury than the one cast in the role of the self-reliant (but ultimately compliant) Americanised Indian daughter, who doesn't physically resemble her 'mother' remotely (and her resemblance is important to the plot); why did the casting director not cast the young woman who played the part of the young Choudhury as the daughter, also, which would have made the whole storyline much more plausible? This mistake created a breach of belief which the audience is obliged to bridge or stretch, particularly when an exceptionally good-looking and wealthy young man finds and subsequently seeks her out. Secondly, while we understand the allure of the title, the Evil Eye protection/superstitious falls flat as the plot progresses, when it might easily have been mobilised to mean much more. Thirdly, and most glaringly, the entire principle/belief system of reincarnation is turned upside down as the rich, obsessive and murderous boyfriend is reincarnated as another rich, obsessive and murderous boyfriend - as anyone who is even a little bit informed or invested in reincarnation knows, that's NOT how it goes... Fourthly, the tell-tale gift of blue heart-shaped sapphires makes no sense whereas red heart-shaped rubies would have ("two hearts afire with true love, exactly the same, a perfect pair belonging together...forever..."etc!). Fifthly, instead of ending it with the classic sound of a flat-lining life support machine, the narrative tastelessly infers the departed soul immediately entering the innocent body of a new-born baby (hey, what happened to THAT 9 months?!). Sixthly, the obsession of he anti-hero is too baseless to ring true, especially after facing the now middle-aged reality of the object of that obsession; not to imply any deficiencies in Ms. Chowdury's commanding (and still beautiful) physicality, but as he himself says to her upon their re-meeting, "You've changed - a lot", i.e. she is no longer the young woman he was once so crazy about that he was willing to kill rather than let her remain with her husband, whereas - according to the script, anyway - her daughter is, and she is already agreed to marry him = to be his, unlike her mother. So it is difficult for an audience to accept that he would not trade his old/original obsession for a new one, i.e. ownership of another woman similar to the other he wanted 30 years ago. Even egotistical homicidal stalkers have some limits and it seems evident that this one would more likely have met his in that moment of re-meeting, so that - at most - his desire would have been to avenge her spurning and accidental annihilation of him 30 years before on her, not her daughter, whom he can now have all to himself...and seventh, it is almost impossible to believe that this daughter of loving Indian parents has no siblings! An inconsistency easily solved by saying that unfortunately the injury she sustained during the altercation which brought about the premature first/only birth prevented further successful pregnancies - in which case, that injury would have had to have been something other than a head injury...for example, the jealous and spurned boyfriend furiously lashing out at the unborn baby after she assured him that the child was not his (the timeline of 2 years between their breakup and her marriage would and could have been condensed to 9 months, especially in a society where arranged marriages were still the norm), bringing on the premature birth but having damaged the womb. Just sayin'... !! If the story hadn't been so full of holes, this movie might have succeeded in becoming something along the lines of a cult classic about female empowerment and mother-daughter dynamics. As-is, it constitutes a good couple of hours of entertainment which leaves one feeling frustrated for being less than what it might have been.
That said - the problems of this movie are annoying avoidable and prevent it from being much better than was possible.
For starters, it takes an actor with considerably more on-camera charisma and/or physical beauty to complement and compete with the power-house presence of Sarita Choudhury than the one cast in the role of the self-reliant (but ultimately compliant) Americanised Indian daughter, who doesn't physically resemble her 'mother' remotely (and her resemblance is important to the plot); why did the casting director not cast the young woman who played the part of the young Choudhury as the daughter, also, which would have made the whole storyline much more plausible? This mistake created a breach of belief which the audience is obliged to bridge or stretch, particularly when an exceptionally good-looking and wealthy young man finds and subsequently seeks her out. Secondly, while we understand the allure of the title, the Evil Eye protection/superstitious falls flat as the plot progresses, when it might easily have been mobilised to mean much more. Thirdly, and most glaringly, the entire principle/belief system of reincarnation is turned upside down as the rich, obsessive and murderous boyfriend is reincarnated as another rich, obsessive and murderous boyfriend - as anyone who is even a little bit informed or invested in reincarnation knows, that's NOT how it goes... Fourthly, the tell-tale gift of blue heart-shaped sapphires makes no sense whereas red heart-shaped rubies would have ("two hearts afire with true love, exactly the same, a perfect pair belonging together...forever..."etc!). Fifthly, instead of ending it with the classic sound of a flat-lining life support machine, the narrative tastelessly infers the departed soul immediately entering the innocent body of a new-born baby (hey, what happened to THAT 9 months?!). Sixthly, the obsession of he anti-hero is too baseless to ring true, especially after facing the now middle-aged reality of the object of that obsession; not to imply any deficiencies in Ms. Chowdury's commanding (and still beautiful) physicality, but as he himself says to her upon their re-meeting, "You've changed - a lot", i.e. she is no longer the young woman he was once so crazy about that he was willing to kill rather than let her remain with her husband, whereas - according to the script, anyway - her daughter is, and she is already agreed to marry him = to be his, unlike her mother. So it is difficult for an audience to accept that he would not trade his old/original obsession for a new one, i.e. ownership of another woman similar to the other he wanted 30 years ago. Even egotistical homicidal stalkers have some limits and it seems evident that this one would more likely have met his in that moment of re-meeting, so that - at most - his desire would have been to avenge her spurning and accidental annihilation of him 30 years before on her, not her daughter, whom he can now have all to himself...and seventh, it is almost impossible to believe that this daughter of loving Indian parents has no siblings! An inconsistency easily solved by saying that unfortunately the injury she sustained during the altercation which brought about the premature first/only birth prevented further successful pregnancies - in which case, that injury would have had to have been something other than a head injury...for example, the jealous and spurned boyfriend furiously lashing out at the unborn baby after she assured him that the child was not his (the timeline of 2 years between their breakup and her marriage would and could have been condensed to 9 months, especially in a society where arranged marriages were still the norm), bringing on the premature birth but having damaged the womb. Just sayin'... !! If the story hadn't been so full of holes, this movie might have succeeded in becoming something along the lines of a cult classic about female empowerment and mother-daughter dynamics. As-is, it constitutes a good couple of hours of entertainment which leaves one feeling frustrated for being less than what it might have been.