Ghajini :: Reviewed
THE PLOT –
The movie is a remake of the Tamil movie by the same name where the main protagonist was played by Surya. The film is said to also have been ‘inspired’ by the 2000 Hollywood movie Memento directed by Christopher Nolan.
Sanjay Singhania (Aamir Khan), who is the MD of AirVoice Cellphone Company, falls in love with the bubbly aspiring model Kalpana (Asin Thottumkal) primarily out of his admiration for Kalpana’s just too excessive pro-active helpfulness towards others. However, Kalpana knows Sanjay as a common man named Sachin who is struggling to be a model/actor just like her.
All hell breaks loose in due course, again courtesy of Kalpana’s helping hand and she gets murdered in front of Sanjay’s eyes, who is also attacked severly by the goons and becomes a patient of anterograde amnesia thereafter.
Will he be able to battle all odds to secure the victory of good over evil and avenge Kalpana’s death?
It’s all there for you to find out.
THE CAST –
Having not seen either the Tamil version or the alleged English inspiration, I would say the director delivered a cross-bred movie with both Bollywood and Tamil elements.
Aamir Khan (Sanjay Singhania) & Pradeep Rawat (Ghajini Dharmatma) do justice to their roles. Asin (Kalpana) & Jiah Khan (Sunita) though are two major painpoints in the movie and are extremely passable, Asin in particular.
Aamir Khan, almost single-handedly, carries the whole film with his near-perfect portrayal of the character and shows why he is the nearest thing to perfection when it comes to acting.
THE MUSIC –
Like any other A.R.Rehman album, again, not all scores are hummable or come with prolonged shelf life. Guzaarish and Kaise Mujhe Tum are the better scores. On a personal note, Lattoo was a pretty refreshing number. On the whole, an average album.
THE VERDICT –
The movie is definitely worth a watch although some action sequences are not advisable for children (note to the parents). If not for anything, Aamir Khan is reason enough to watch this one.
THE SCORE –
6.00 / 10.00
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Ghajini…it took me quite some time to be normal after I watched the movie in the theatre.
Violence overload, specially in the second half…but then all revenge movies are made that way.
For the ones like me…watching it on TV at home(even though the DVD is pirated with distortions),might be a better option.
Also the scene where Asin is killed was…I don’t know..disturbing or sad or fearsome or all…I really don’t know!
However, “Behka main behka, Guzarish…etc.” were good and I wish The “LATTOO” spinned for some more time!
Aamir Khan was good and his body looked excellent( Not clay modelled or peeled chicken like body in the name of some packabs)…[Intelligent people will understand what I mean;)]
Watch it…you won’t regret!