She’s good at extracting the right emotion even out of contrived situations. In spite of the irregularities, director Sunaina Bhatnagar keeps the feeling from ebbing. Why does Anna spend six years looking for Maya, without looking into that return address first? Why doesn’t she file a missing person’s report? Surely Maya’s real-estate agent has some kind of a forwarding address? There are continuity errors - the first letter that Anna writes isn’t the first letter that Maya reads - and logical flaws. The movie has a lot of honesty at its core, but loses momentum because of logistic loopholes. Anna is riddled with guilt and starts looking for Maya while her friendship with Ira collapses. Until one of the letters arrives with a return address, and Maya ups and leaves to find her mystery man. The plan works, and Maya Devi - in a literal and metaphorical scene - starts opening doors and windows to let the sunshine in. Two schoolgirls from her neighbourhood, Anna (Imam) and Ira (Chaudhary), pity her sorry existence and decide to write love letters to her, to invoke a sense of hope in her life. Here, Maya (Koirala) keeps to herself in her ancestral home packed with Rajputana antiques, her caged birds and her two dogs. Review: Remember Makdee? Vishal Bhardwaj’s superbly crafted suspenseful debut, in which a ghoulish woman turns a teenager into her errand-girl? Dear Maya ditches the witchcraft element, but its first half has an unmissable similarity to the 2002 sleeper hit. Little does she know that the letters are a silly teenage prank. Story: A lonely woman starts getting love letters from a long lost admirer.
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