Cast: Amir Khan, Asin, Jiah Khan, Pradeep Rawat
Screenplay: A. R. Murugadoss
Music: A. R. Rahman
Official Website:http://www.rememberghajini.com/
Genre: Murder Mystery/Psychological Thriller
Rating: ***
Review: Birjis Adeni Rashed
Let’s start with the name of the movie – ‘Ghajini’ it’s named after the villain of the movie. How many movies in bollywood could be associated with villains names. Even villains like Amjad Khan or Amrish Puri didn’t have movies named after them. Yet the villain of this movie Pradeep Rawat doesn’t even look menacing! Yes he acts violent, but doesn’t resonate it.
If anyone resonates in the movie, it’s Aamir Khan. Be it the eight pack physique with striking handsome looks or the head shaved and tattooed intimidating brute who speaks more with his silence, sounds and body language than words.
Based loosely on the English movie Momento, it’s about a man who suffers short term memory loss, yet in his mission to take vengeance on his girlfriends murderer he organizes his life, goal and living with a Polaroid camera and writing on the wall and tattooing on himself.
It has some Hollywood like movie shots and sequences mixed with bollywood masala. It has romance, comedy and mystery and a lot of violence. Yet the story has a lot of loose ends, very surprising for a perfectionist Aamir khan film.
Some things go overboard and unacceptable, one of that is the rolled up short sleeve in a formal suit to show off the bulge in the biceps. Another is the absurdity of pace in tracing Aamir with small evidence by a cop!
While the Song , ‘hai guzarish’ showcases Aamirs new stud looks, the ‘Behka ‘song adds curiosity to the movie with the hyped up 6 new hairstyles and different looks. Though the songs in the movie are good, they didn’t fit well in the movie.
The heroine Asin is sweet and funny but does borderline overacting. Jiah Khan as a medical student doesn’t do much. The villain as mentioned earlier is not villainous enough. Only Aaamir stands off with his amazing acting abilities.
There is not much to say of the story. You don’t walk out of the movie, happy or sad or moved. It doesn’t have any special experience. Ghajini will be remembered for Aamir's acting and nothing else.
4 comments:
One kind of topicality for this film, I feel, is that if one subtracts the extremeness of the hero's situation, the day-to-day forgetfulness due to the pace of life has become a part of our lives - particularly if one is 35 or over :-)
We need To-Do reminders on our cellphones, in our Outlook programs, we use Post-It Notes, diary jottings, write on blackboards/whiteboards at home etc. etc.
We forget small things, not-so-small things, even pretty big things. Due dates, resolutions, action points, so much else - all remembered just a wee bit late or sometimes too late.
There are many distractors, space clutterers that make this happen and we have then to make a concerted effort to monitor those select things that we really should.
The review mentions that the movie is loosely based on the English movie, Momento, but with a few exceptions the team which made this movie is the same as the earlier version of Ghajini in Tamil. Bollywood remakes a lot of South Indian movies but it is not openly acknowledged in Bollywood
Frankly speaking, I did not like the movie at all. Lot of confusing situations, voilence, movie lack something behind which will leave us all with no memories at all.
'Momento' was excellent movie!I dont think this movie is any near to 'Momento'.
Some feedback after Ghajini has shown, that people who saw Momento didnt like Ghajini by camparison.Where as people who saw the tamil Ghajini, appreciated the better nuances of the Aamir version.
But all said, one had started to have great expectations from Aamirs movies after Taare zameen par, Lagaan and Rang de basanti, but this one falls short, except for his personal performance.
Btw this movie captures and reflects the organisation trait well. Lessons on how to simplify, organise, set goals, and get discipline in life.(probably the perfectionsit Aamir practices these himself!)
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