Sounds like the director A. R. Murgadoss could not identify what to copy from Memento, the original chef-d’oeuvre. Though he could successfully adopt the Polaroid camera, post-it notes and a tattooed body from Memento, he failed to justify the nonlinear cabal theory and produced a lengthened romance track with hyperbolized revenge drama. Aamir’s 8-pack abs and outstanding action galore could have been utilized to create something which might go to see Oscar awards this time.
Sanjay Singhania (Aamir Khan) suffers from short term memory loss, a cerebral disorder by which his memory lasts only for 15 minutes!
He is chasing a person named Ghajini (Pradeep Rawat), and to remember his quarry, he has etched his signs and connected clues on his body, has pasted post-it notes all across his house and keeps a Polaroid camera to click pictures of people important to him.
A police officer gets hold of his diary while investigating a murder sequence to show the audiance flash back. Sanjay who was the owner of a growing mobile company falls in love with a struggling model and happy-to-help kind of girl, Kalpana (Asin). The only relief in the movie was comedy and indianized romantic sequence with her followed by three beautifully choreographed songs, Baheka mein baheka, Hai Guzarish and Kaise Mujhe Tu.
Sanjay’s Dairy finds it way to a medical student (Jiah Khan) but the flash back continues to stretch from year 2006 to year 2007 and to show the dreadfully obvious how Ghajini killed Kalpana. This is predictable from the beginning with the tattoos on Sanjay’s body and his omen to kill Ghajini. At this point, you can’t really expect any twist in the tale and unfortunately you are right. It ends up with stretched action sequence as a regular revenge drama.
Even the memory loss is not justified in the script. The major flaw of the movie is Sanjay remembers Ghajini’s way of killing people and hounds them obscurely.
The length could have been trimmed and the romance could have been more intense and full-of-instinct to justify the latter part of wolfish aggression of Aamir.
In a nutshell, Actor like Aamir is wasted due to fracture script though he has lived the character with all of his heart (and body too!) Asin looks good and Jiah is okay. Pradeep Rawat is average.
So if you don’t expect Ghajini to be an intelligent psychological sequence, this is a must watch!
Story: 2/5
Music: 3.5/5
Acting: 3/5 (Exception: Aamir 4.5/5)
Direction: 2.5/5
Overall: 2.5/5 (Okay-to-watch)
In one sentence: “An okay attempt to touch your aggression senses with the new 8 pack bottle filled of old wine.”
Some Interesting Links:
- Official Website
- Theatrical Trailer
- Google Image Results
- Google Video results
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