Reviews & Ratings for
गजनी (2008)

Kind of decent romcom plus memory loss twist makes ghajini stand in spotlight
First indian movie i say with such plot piece...

Last night I watched Ghajini on BluRay, and I am so glad I bought this! It's one of my neighbor's favorite movies and she's been urging me to watch it for a long time. She loves the romantic first half.

I saw Memento years ago, and I do love Guy Pearce and the wild indie feel of the original but having the full romantic story added in really takes the story up a notch.

This is a movie that has everything! A superb romantic comedy storyline. I cannot even tell you my delight at the moment when Aamir (Sanjay) is going to confront Kalpana for saying she's engaged to him, and she mistakes him for a male model and just prattles on and on while he is just gobsmacked smitten.

And then there is intense action, and a really different revenge plot with Sanjay's memory loss, AND Aamir gets to really show a lot of range, too. It's hard for me to imagine anyone else in the Bollywood world doing this role anywhere as well as Aamir. And the Ghajini villain is quite something, too. (I saw on IMDB he played Ghajini in the Tamil original, too.)

I don't think I'd seen Asin in anything before and I absolutely love her. She is a delight and so great and bubbly playing opposite Aamir.

Aamir manages to get some serious social messages in with Kalpana saving several young girls from organ harvesting and sex slavery.

And the A R Rahman music!! Hard to pick a favorite but Guzarish is one I've been replaying over and over this morning, and not just because of nearly shirtless Aamir throughout.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKrCL4HOZ8k

The plot of A.R. Murugadoss' Ghajini borrows heavily from Christopher Nolan's Memento. Sanjay (Aamir Khan) suffers from short-term memory loss. He spends his days attempting to take revenge on those responsible for the death of his girlfriend, but his condition complicates this process. To help him, he constantly makes notes for himself. Some of the notes take the form of crude homemade tattoos.

The movie is a remake of a south indian film ny the same director. Still it manages to attract audience it can be done by Khans only and this time it is Aamir Khan. Flawless acting superb transformation and brilliant action sequences make this movie worth watching. Apart from that the new entrant into the bollywood Asin has also done her role brilliantly. But what a hero is without a powerful villain and here the villain a.k.a Ghazini i.e. Pradeep singh rawat has done a brilliant role. He gives life to the movie.

The biggest blockbuster of 2008 Ghajini was the first film to earn 100 crores in domestic shattering all other records. A movie full of action, light comedy and emotion never gets boring throughout. Songs are pretty good and the debutant with her charming face did quite well in the film.