Ghajini

Plot synopsis:
Sunita (Jiah Khan) is a medical student, working on a project about the human brain with her classmates. When she was denied access by her professor to the curious case of Sanjay Singhania (Aamir Khan), a man reported to have anterograde amnesia, because it is under criminal investigation, Sunita decides to investigate the matter herself.
It is later revealed that Sanjay loses his memory every 15 minutes. He uses a system of photographs, notes, and tattoos on his body to recover his memory after each cycle to remind himself of his mission: to avenge the death of his wife Kalpana (Asin). He systematically kills the people who were involved to the murder. His main target is Ghajini Dharmatma (Pradeep Rawat), a notable social personality in the city, and the man directly responsible for Kalpana's death and Sanjay's condition.
Police inspector Arjun Yadav (Riyaz Khan) tracks Sanjay down to his apartment and knocks him unconscious. Yadav finds two diaries in which Sanjay has chronicled the events of 2005 and 2006. The film flashes back to 2005 as Yadav reads the diary. Sanjay Singhania is the chairman of the Air Voice mobile telephone company. In the course of business, he sends his men to meet Kalpana, a struggling model of Mumbai, about putting up a billboard above her apartment. The owner of Kalpana's advertising firm misinterprets this as a romantic advance and, in view of a possible lucrative Air Voice ad campaign, encourages Kalpana to accept the overture. Kalpana thinks of it as an innocent prank that may fetch her better modelling work and decides to act as Sanjay's girlfriend. Sanjay goes to confront Kalpana about this but falls in love with her at first sight. He hides his identity and introduces himself as Sachin, and the two begin spending time together. The diary ends with Sanjay proposing to Kalpana and promising himself that he will reveal his actual identity if she accepts.
When Yadav is about to read the 2006 diary, Sanjay awakes and attacks him, tying him up. Ghajini realizes that someone is trying to kill him but is unable to figure out who. Sunita visits Sanjay's flat and discovers Sanjay's plan to kill Ghajini. She takes both his diaries before finding Yadav, beaten and bound, and freeing him. Just then, Sanjay arrives, he remembers neither of them and chases them out. Yadav is hit by a bus as he flees in terror, and Sunita, believing Ghajini is the good guy in danger, informs him about Sanjay. Ghajini arrives at Sanjay's flat and destroys all of Sanjay's photographs and notes, as well as the tattoos on Sanjay's body, so that Sanjay is left with nothing to help him recover his memory.
Meanwhile, Sanjay discovers that Sunita had warned Ghajini and he goes to her dormitory to kill her, but Sunita calls the police and Sanjay is arrested. Back in her dormitory as Sunita reads the diaries, the film flashes back to 2006, where it is revealed that Kalpana had accepted Sanjay's proposal. When this diary ends abruptly, Sunita investigates further and discovers that Kalpana was travelling to Goa for a modelling assignment when she came upon 25 innocent young girls being trafficked. She had saved the girls with the help of some army soldiers on board, who named Ghajini as the ringleader of the racket. Outraged, Ghajini broke into Kalpana's apartment with his goons to kill her. When Sanjay arrived, he found Kalpana stabbed. Ghajini then hit Sanjay over the head with an iron rod. Sanjay's last sight was Ghajini brutally murdering Kalpana with the iron rod. Kalpana's last word to Sanjay was "Ghajini."
Sunita, now aware of the shocking truth, finds Sanjay in the hospital and tells him the truth. He flies into a heartbroken rage and tracks down Ghajini with Sunita's help. He fights off all of Ghajini's henchmen with a superior and anger-fueled strength. Ghajini,upon realizing Sanjay is too strong for him, flees. Sanjay's memory loss strikes again, and he forgets who Ghajini is. Ghajini takes this opportunity to stab Sanjay and taunt him with the grisly tale of how he murdered Kalpana. As he is about to make Sanjay relive the experience by killing Sunita in the same exact way, Sanjay recovers the memory of Kalpana's murder, and overpowers Ghajini in a flash of strength. He finally kills Ghajini, in the same way Ghajini had killed Kalpana.
The film ends with a still-amnesiac Sanjay volunteering at an orphanage named after Kalpana. Sunita gives him a gift that reminds him of his bond with Kalpana, and Sanjay imagines Kalpana by his side, finally at peace with himself.

Tags: cruelty, murder, violence, flashback, romantic, revenge

Review:
Ghajini is an entertainer.It has loads of action,comedy,drama and romance which makes it a family packed entertainer.The story is good.Screenplay is penned very well.But the problem is that the movie is long,it could have been trimmed 15-20 minutes and the movie even gets violent at times,which could have been shortened.Direction by A.R Murugadass is excellent.The music is very good.Performance wise-Aamir Khan is menacing.He is superb.Newcomer Asin is very good.Jiah Khan is perfect.Pradeep Rawat is first rate.Overall Ghajini is an entertainer..
And any thought of all those things indeed vanished from my head the moment the movie started.Ghajini is one of the best thrillers to have come out of the Bollywood stable in recent years.
Aamir Khan once again proves that he's not just the best in business, but he's the one leading the way for Bollywood to make better movies.
Written and directed by A.R. Murugadoss, I don't see much of a nod of acknowledgement to Nolan's work, and in almost all literature, it only falls back on the fact that this is a Hindi remake of Murugadoss' own Tamil movie of the same name Ghajini, produced in 2005 (Nolan's was in 2000), which joins the ranks of films having their titles named after the chief villain.In any case this isn't the first time that we see very obvious similarities in premise and characters being adopted for Bollywood's own productions, and the shot-in-Singapore Krrish comes to mind as well, as they had the entire setting of John Woo's Paycheck incorporated into that film.
But of course in any version some merits could be found, but I believe some form of acknowledgement would be in order, other than, in this case, a quick flash of a very wordy disclaimer about Ghajini being gleaned from various short stories and material (and another paragraph which I missed given the fine print, and short duration on screen, but I'm pretty sure no mention of Memento).Well, there are some reasons why I chose to watch this.
But don't expect the same though, because Pearce's version was more of a thinking man who questions and second guesses himself, while Khan's version was in two parts to serve the story, one as a raging hulk monster who tears through his opponents with savage violence fueled by anger and hatred, coupled with the hurt he experienced and recalled (Hulk producers take note, in case Edward Norton decides against any more sequels, look in the direction of Aamir Khan), while the other as mild-mannered Sanjay Singhania, CEO of a telecommunications company in Mumbai.Yes, Bollywood's version naturally comes with built-in song and dance, which for once I would have thought looked quite out of place in the movie, if not for A.R. Rahman's score and music.
Factor in plenty of lovey-dovey moments of comedy and pursuit (under the guise of a different identity, like Shah Rukh Khan's Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi) which makes it perfect for a date movie, but with hindsight that you know this love is doomed from the moment it began, which actually makes it quite sad to watch the events unfold since you know what will eventually happen to her.Ghajini doesn't adopt or try to adopt those very cerebral mind-f* moments from Memento, but as I mentioned plays it out more like a straight forward action thriller, with a handful of inevitable moments of watching our protagonist get taken advantaged of because of his condition.
However you'll still be kept in the dark for some time as to why the designated thugs of Ghajini (Pradeep Rawat) would want to exact their mettle onto Sanjay and Kalpana, and you'll be held in suspense for almost 2 hours before the reasons get shown.I can only imagine the flak that this film might receive because of having to adapt, and not properly acknowledge perhaps that it's not original material, save for the romantic spin on it.
Rather, it would be best to view this film as a separate entity, something not quite at the standards of Hollywood's best but certainly above the usual clichéd Bollywood fare.Ghajini tells the story of a man called Sanjay Singhania (Aamir Khan), who suffers from a condition called Anterograde amnesia, which prevents him from forming new memories, as a result of which he is unable to remember anything for more than around 15 minutes.
Ultimately, the film comes full circle in an awe-inspiring climax when past and present collide to bring a fulfilling end to the story.Aamir Khan proves his versatility as an actor yet again, playing not one, not two but three roles in this film.
Jiah Khan does okay as the medical student who gets dragged into Sanjay's quest for revenge while Pradeep Rawat may come across as an over-the-top clichéd bad guy in his role as the titular 'Ghajini'-but it works well for the story, believe it or not.This film is actually two films in that the darker 'present day sequences' of Sanjay's orgies of violence seem to belong to an entirely different genre from the lighter comedic flashback sequences, though the shattering of Sanjay's happy past life makes us understand the driving force behind his present day violence.
The style of music, dialogue and even settings for both sets of sequences is drastically different as a result-where on one hand you have fancy office blocks, garden parties and the beach side, on the other hand you have seedy back lanes and darkened parking lots.On the whole despite a few ridiculous plot holes, Ghajini is definitely one of the most entertaining, if not one of the best, films of Bollywood in recent years..
Had the movie not featured Aamir Khan it would not have been nowhere close to what it is now.Bollywood has had a history where many a venture has sunk despite hype but what worked for Ghajini was a sustained and immaculately planned publicity campaign.
The action sequences have a South Indian influence even though some of them are executed well.Ghajini, as a one time watch, was entertaining even for someone like me not particularly into action movies or Aamir Khan.
well...everyone has the right to their own opinion....but in my own i feel ghajini has heart..it is on of those movies which take you down to reality and touch every human emotional chord in your body...LOVE is what it talks about and how it drives a person so mad when he loses it...i think there is a person inside us who wishes he could play the role aamir did ....but we are scared of doing that...i think aam ir has done a fabulous job and my final judgment is...people who love crying and don't feel ashamed to let their emotional side touch them..its worth a watch..well you should deffo watch it...people who are heartless the main comment wud suit u....that is that aamir cant act no more...well guess what he can and and only passionate and emotional ppl who have loved once in their lives can understand that...5 out of 5...cheers....
Plus I liked the Bollywood flavor, since it introduces a love-story aspect.Excellent acting by Aamir Khan, as usual.
Director has tried to fix all these problems with more and more action which is impressive if you don't watch Hollywood Movies but If you have watched some good Hollywood Action Movies, you will find Ghajini's action ordinary.This film is remake of a tamil movie with same name but when you watch the movie you'll find that it has taken lots of scenes from successful Hollywood Movies as well like Hulk and many more.
An 'Indianised' Memento, Ghajini is a masala pot-boiler revenge film that is low on distinctiveness, instead relying on vibrant cinematography, over-the-top action sequences, and superlative performances by Aamir Khan and Asin to deliver the goods.
2. was it just the muscular skin show he wanted to show us on screen for 3 damn hoursOK so now let me get to the real review of the movie Direction : well Murgados should better stay in south and make such non sense cinema and which will be as big hit as his 2005 version of Ghajini and the crowd is going crazy for this one also.Acting : Asin did her job perfectly well she is a new addition of good performers in Bollywood, where woman lack talent to such and extent that they are only used in movies like Katrina Kaif.Aamir, the perfectionist has gone so lower than his level that i thought it as one more Aap Mujhe Achay Lagnay Lage of Hritik, and at times i just thought that he is always in short rolled sleeves in office to make a fashion statement ?
well in short if you want to see Aamirs new body this Ghajini is just made for that other than that it lacks soul, screenplay is lacking everything, direction is pathetic, and only one song is picturised good which is Behka, other than A.R Rahman is wasted here completely.Villain of the movie just make no sense who is he what is he doing and why is he doing that when he is owner of a Pharmaceutical company ?3 hours just wasted simply waste of money and above all when world is going through all the violence and hatred one should prefer watching lighter cinema, i was a huge fan of Aamir Khan but even it came to me as surprise that guy who gave us Lagaan, 1947 Earth, Mangal Pandey, Rang De Basanti and above all Taare Zameen Par.it may shatter box office records and all but all in all its just waste of time..
Kalpana played by Asin Thottumkal, an advertisement model goes around telling her advertisement crew that she is the love interest of Sanjay, in spite of her having never met him and also goes to the extent of giving an sheer conincidence an interview with a very local newspaper called Mayapuri about her relationship Sanjay.Sanjay happens to hear about this through the media and wants to settle scores with her.(Here, i love the part when they are trying to sell the sensational news item on a television commercial, also highlighting that if you buy the latest Mayapuri for the gossip, you will also get two packets of pav bhaji masala.)Jiah Khan comes quiet later in the story but upfront in the movie.
Gold fish could porbably be better at it, that reminds me, let's me try and list some top of mind amnesia based movies -* Finding Nemo (hilarious, can keep watching everyday, Dory was cute), * 50 First Dates (Romantic Comedy, once it OK, Adam Sandler was good, so was Drew Barrymore), * then you have the Bourne series - Identity, Supremacy and Ultimatum (action oriented, all of them worth once, Supremacy also features Goa), * Memento (Aamir said don't compare), * Ghajini (what can i say, please continue reading...)My other problem in the movie is that the songs at a drop of a hat, which were completely unwanted, unrequired, unstorylike.
The movie scenes had really dramatic long pauses between Aamir Khan and Asin, where i was trying to peep into my neighbors Nokia camera phone to know what time it was?The villain was not at all menacing enough and took the protagonist and his illness too much for granted, which was completely uncalled for.
But I think personally Aamir Khan was excellent in this movie especially with his facial expressions as he doesn't have much dialogue but makes the most out of it.The Director(Muragadoss) has done a decent job and the heroine(Asin) acted pretty well like in the tamil one basically.
Jiah Khan surprisingly acted well according to me but some people i know didn't like her being casted so opinions differ on her character.The music director is A.R.Rahman..need i say more ?!As far as the story of the movie its pretty much the same as the tamil one except for the climax which was really the black spot in the tamil Ghajini but in this one its well thought out and most importantly directed and acted out well!The movie is based on a man(Aamir) who has short term memory loss and searching for the killer of his lover(Asin) called Ghajini.I don't want to give out anything else about the movie as it would spoil the experience.Go watch the movie...you'll like it!!.
If Memento stimulated audience's intellect to a scale of 10, Ghajini comes at 2..At the end of the day, what sounded like a promising picture ended up following the same old Hindi, sing and dance, malasa flick.This, probably was the las Aamir flick that we'd watch in theater..
Jiah was mis casted.This movie is a one time watch only for Aamir.By the way I don't think any corporate honchos would dress like Sanjay S.
This coming from the same guy who scored a triumphant music for "Slumdog Millionaire" is rather disappointing.Apart from Aamir Khan's dedication to his craft and his advertisement of "what steroids can do to the muscles of 40+ year old body" there is nothing much to talk about this movie.
What you instead have is a typical Hindi movie with a paper thin plot, numerous plot holes, terrible supporting cast, but some decent acting from Aamir Khan.As you may know, the story revolves around the character of Aamir Khan, who suffers from short-term memory loss and is trying to figure out who murdered his girlfriend by leaving himself clues, in the form of Polaroid photos and tattoos on his body.The movie starts out terribly with minimal explanation about Aamir's condition and jumping straight into the action.
After her part was over, it pretty much boiled down to more terrible acting from the supporting cast, more excessively stupid-and-trying-to-be-cool editing, further evidence that the plot was really crappy, repetitive background score and song and dance routines at awkward moments.Don't get me wrong...the songs in Ghajini are good (maybe not Rahman's best work), but the sound and music otherwise sucks.
I went as far as spending a big sum of money to buy tickets for a special screening of his most recent film, the much talked about Ghajini.I think it's awful.I like AK, his body is a marvel and worth staring at; his talent is unquestioned but what the heck is he doing in this movie?
NB:I have been a Great Great Memento fan since the time of its release and watched that movie a dozen times and Love it..For all those people who haven't seen "Memento" please don't compare it to "ghajini".This "Ghajini" is nothing like it nor could ever be."Memento" was a true masterpiece.After having said that...now I was forced to give 1/10 as there was no lower rating.It doesn't deserve 1/100 or 1/1000.I would have rated higher if Aamir was not in it.
well, some Bollywood-rigidity like the Hero never dies.Even though it's still humorous to see Aamir smash the hell out of four crooks and then suddenly look at them and wonder who the hell these four people are and why they are dead, it is Memento (the Hollywood movie, the origin of all Ghajini's) that still stands out.Not worth the first day first show, but worth a watch still.
I think actors like aamir who has put in year of hard work to have a build JUST for this movie should have chosen this project with some small time but good director.
Well i had a very good expectation from this movie but after watching it i was having a headache.....Aamir khan s acting is the only good thing in the movie...rest the story is the same old....a guy fighting for her girl....
revenge...n no mystery....all in all if u all have the guts to bare a movie which is dragged for 3 hrs n 30 minutes give it a shot...but a total disappointment....I hope Aamir khan does not end up in all these movie s again.......he acts really well and deserve s to do better roles...not like these with loose stories....
i had really great expectations from this movie Ghajini because of the actor Aamir Khan.
But i am sorry to say that after witnessing Ghajini(2008) i am shocked to say that starting from beginning to the end the film totally fails to impress even after the amount of promotion put behind it.Even the last Ghajini(2006) enacted by Tamil superstar Surya was way ahead and the worst part is that it completely tarnishes the image of Bollywood .So friends it is absolutely a no watch movie specially for children because of high amount of mindless impossible action shown which sadly undoes the good effect of taare zameen par.so it is 1/10 from me for the mindless action and the backward step taken by Indian cinema...
This isn't Aamir's best work, but he deserves credit for going where he hasn't ventured before.Jiah Khan impresses as an earnest but foolhardy character; she is the lynchpin throughout much of the film, serving as both the character who puts the story into action and acts as the link between Ghajini and Sanjay.
Excellent film from Bollywood and of course it has the wonderful actor Aamir khan who can act so good and superb..
I always had this impression that he did things in his own way and even though I had seen the Tamil version, which deserves a lot of credit in its own right, I didn't think that Aamir would be swayed to remake the film in Hindi.I watched this movie after more than a month had passed since its release.
Ghajini which is a remake of Tamil hit Ghajin by Surya and Asin had a good story unlike recent Bollywood movies.
Let me put it this way: Cancel whatever you're doing today and go watch Ghajini instead.Aamir Khan is suffering from acute short-term memory loss set off by the violent murder of his girlfriend Asin.
But a good start for a girl, who is trying her hand in Bollywood.It was like a Tamil movie with Aamir in the lead when you see the action scenes.