Ghajini: Questioning Your Intelligence
PrintiView Author: Devendra Surolia (India)
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Ghajini: Questioning Your Intelligence
I am suffering from short term memory loss I’ve completely forgotten what happened in last three hours, I am still regarding Aamir khan as the most cinematically intelligent actor who believed in good cinema. His record speaks for him- Acted ,produced and directed TZP, acted in RDB, DCH,Mangal Pandey, Sarfarosh etc,and who can forget Lagaan. But all the posters of Ghajini, all the reviews and all the promos of Ghajini are constantly reminding me of the pain and agony I endured when I watched Ghajini.
Movie starts with Jiah Khan discussing Aamir’s short term memory loss disease with a Doctor, Woosh Woosh Aamir’s entry he beats the hell out of the bad guy Woosh Woosh bad guy retaliates Woosh Woosh Aamir takes a tap out from the washbasin and shoves it in the bad guy’s stomach. At this moment I half expected Aamir to open the tap and let the bad guy’s blood and guts on the floor, but it did not happen. Aamir walks off the crime scene unscathed, unperturbed, don’t ask me how. Dead Body is discovered and a MAVERICK police Inspector visits the crime scene who swears to find the killer in 48 hours. He searches for evidence and after a thorough search of crime scene he finds the ALL IMPORTANT EVIDENCE ,a local bus ticket. Meanwhile Aamir comes back to his lair Woosh Woosh and dozes off. His house is filled with graffiti all over the walls because it reminds him of his aim. Aamir wakes up Woosh Woosh goes to bathroom looking confused Woosh Woosh takes his shirt off Woosh Woosh sees tattoos remembers everything and screams Woosh Woosh.
NOTE:Woosh Woosh here is nothing but the sound effects we here when the camera comes into focus or operates in multiple frames.
The MAVERICK inspector traces the bus ticket back to Aamir and goes to catch him. Aamir gets readyWoosh Woosh and boards the bus. MAVERICK misses him but chases the bus, he runs faster than the bus and suddenly himself becomes the bus. Oops sorry too much imagination!! He catches the bus BUT Toinks! Aamir is not there. Aamir goes to his Doctor meets Jiah Khan comes back to his house and works on a plan to find and kill Ghajini. MAVERICK finds Aamir and comes to his flat creeps up from behind and hits Aamir on the head ties him and searches for evidence. He finds a diary which tells him that Aamir was once a very handsome business tycoon who folded sleeves of his half shirts and loved a struggling model. Aamir’s love life comes into focus how he fell in love with the do-gooder, messiah of the poor and the disabled ASIN. Love comes into picture by mistaken identities and what follows is THE GREAT LOVE STORY OF Aamir and Asin spiced with two songs. Which I think were described WORD TO WORD and STEP TO STEP in the diary. MAVERICK then finds the other diary, but Aamir is back to his senses, breaks his bonds and beats the hell out of MAVERICK. Aamir then finds Ghajini in Jiah Khan’s college function and tries to kill him but kills one of Ghajini’s men.
TRIVIA:The stage of Jiah khan’s college had the property of transforming itself into big Hi-tech dance floor whenever Jiah Khan performed on it.
Jiah Khan visits Aamir’s house rescues MAVERICK is chased by Aamir but escapes, goes to Ghajini tells him Aamir is after him. Meanwhile, MAVERICK is dead in a road accident when chased by Aamir and Ghajini is killing all his enemies. Woosh Woosh Ghajini goes to kill Aamir Woosh Woosh Aamir goes to kill Ghajini. Phone rings in Ghajini’s house Aamir picks it up Jiah is on the phone and Aamir knows that Jiah has betrayed him. He goes to Jiah’s hostel instead climbs three stories of pipe and tries to kill Jiah through the window. Jiah gets him caught. In police station police calls all the numbers tattooed on Aamir’s body to identify him. They call Ghajini who comes to Police Station. Aamir is bailed by his manager. Ghajini decides that killing Aamir would not be ‘SAFE’, so he wipes all Aamir’s memory out by destroying his photographs and other notes and wiping out his Tattoos. Making Aamir ‘JUST LIKE A VEGETABLE’ in words of The GREAT GHAJINI.
Meanwhile Jiah Khan reads Aamir’s diaries and discovers that Asin had sacrificed her Ambassador for LOVE which solidifies Asin’s claim for Goddess of love and sacrifice. Jiah strives for more truth as diary was incomplete we come to know how Asin became Savior of the girls in a KIDNEY RACKET due to which Ghajini kills her and leaves Aamir with a scar. Yeah! Ghajini was involved in it don’t you already know that Ghajini is the quintessential villian. Jiah realises her mistakes goes to Aamir brings his memory back takes him to Ghajini’s lair on her MAGNIFICENT SCOOTY.
After that Aamir is Juggernaut Woosh Woosh bashing up goons , throwing men 20 feet away, making heads turn 360 degrees with one punch(literally) and in the process not getting hurt. Ghajini manages to hold him off a wee-bit by putting an iron bar in his stomach, but power of love propels Aamir into killing Ghajini. Aamir grows hair becomes sober opens an orphanage and lives on and on and on…….. and yes no police case for all the bashing.
TRIVIA: Local mobsters in Mumbai doon’t even carry a local pistol let alone an AK-47.
I think it was three months ago when Aamir announced that Ghajini is totally different from Memento (I have not seen tamil Ghajini), I was very relieved. But now I think that he should have copied Memento at least the movie would have been good.
So, don’t remember Dec 25 and don’t forgive Aamir Khan.
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“At this moment I half expected Aamir to open the tap and let the bad guy’s blood and guts on the floor, but it did not happen.”
ha ha….u wont believe it, i expected the same thing.
and dont know why the entire movie reminded me of sunny deol. the tap scene brought back memories of GADAR which made me shudder. i think sunny deol rented his ‘dhai kilo ka haath’ to aamir for this movie.
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Woosh Woosh!-Nice Post-Woosh Woosh!
Also,in this movie,the police informs the citizen(Asin) about goons coming over to her place to kill her.The police doesn’t do anything.It only informs.
The sequence where Aamir goes to Ghajini’s den and finally confronts him for a final woosh woosh would definitely sum up to more than 15 mins in duration.But still he remembers his face when they stand face to face.
The funniest part was our big brawny maverick inspector sits with the bus conductor in the rickshaw to catch him in the bus.HAHAHHAAAHAHA!They were sitting as if they were eve-teasing or something.Macho Man was purposely sitting there so he could run faster than the bus?
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The movie was a travesty of some other league altogether.
The fact that we’ve succeeded in imitating something which was already an imitation calls for a celebration.
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“At this moment I half expected Aamir to open the tap and let the bad guy’s blood and guts on the floor, but it did not happen.”
You will be surprised….this scene was actually there in the Tamil version and even shot for the Indian version, but the censor board found it too gory and ordered a cut. And we did not get to see the blood dripping from the tap.
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In these type of movies it is the director and screenwriter’s role to suck the audience into the labyrinth of protagonist’s emotions, so that the audience support even the weirdest of things portrayed, like in Chak De India. But Ghajini fails miserably at it.
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chillax guys…it was a regular bollywood masala movie. the only twist was the revenge saga had an ‘anterograde amnesia’ factor. remove this, and it becomes a masala flick. we are extrapolating it so much only b’cos aamir starred in it. if it had any other lesser star we wud not have bothered trying to pin-point loopholes
, the movie was filled with lotsa loopholes.
give aamir a break, why shud only srk [oso] and akshay[SiK, welcome] have all the fun.
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why should aamir be hailed as the perfectionist and god knows what not when hes realised that he’d be better imitating what akshay and SRK do.
hypocrisy on aamir’s part.
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and another situation which was weird for me was.. how he retains his memory, when Jiah Khan is giving him flashback of his life.. which took 2.5 hours to tell audience… and he doesnt loses his memory and never asks her to start over.. wasnt that the condition doctor explains that he doesnt remember how the conversation started if it lasts more than 15 minutes..
and that police angle was total screwed up.. there wasnt any police when asin is killed, and when one goonda dies there was entire police force.. and then when all goondas in the end were killed there was no police again.. oh wait.. because the maverick cop was killed.. no other wanted to mess with aamir..
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and what surprises me the most.. is that movie is on its way to becoming biggest blockbuster ever.. who are these people watching and loving it.. the reviews in most of the newspaper were positive..
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hahaha.. nice post….
but one thing is still intriguing … u contradict urself… in the opening you said that you have completely forgotten what happened in the last three hours but then have gone on to write almost the entire movie scene by scene… damn…. wish u had not had this loop hole in you write up…. especially when ur writing about the loop holes in the movie you watched…. wat an irony
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I won’t forgive Aamir either. First he gave us Fanaa, and now Ghajini. Never again, I will have the same enthusiasm for his next releases now.
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Fanaa is a masterpiece compared to Ghajini
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Aditya Pant, Indian version?
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astute observation, hari
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I think it was a fantastic movie.. rest of the audience seemed to be thinking the same. Something more in the league of Rambo than Forrest Gump, both entertaining in their own rights.
Or.. dont you guys like Rambo?
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@Nitin Gupta
Rambo was entertaining, worth watching.Rambo had my adrenaline flowing and I became involved with John Rambo as the film progressed, but this was not the case with Ghajini because the film is not well made.
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“Don’t forgive Aamir Khan”—> dude its your mistake not Aamir Khan’s…. Ghajini was always promoted as a masala entertainer … if you went looking for logic in the film, then its your problem….. Aamir khan never claimed he was making TZP-2…
and going by your logic, there ain’t a single movie-star in the world whom you would ‘forgive’… if you know any such star, please enlighten us.
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Starting bathroom scene was incredible, from looking lost, confused, vulnerable, to seething anger, helplessness to outright rage. It was an amazing scene……
Agreed, the whole dude cop sequence was unnecessary and dont know why it was there in the first place.
Its a revenge saga, a man bound to kill only, he works out and tosses people here and there, he is a killer machine out to seek revenge (of course sunny deol and mithun daa always seek revenge in every movie, thats why aamir reminded every one of them)
College dance floor : Hindi movie directors cinematic liberties(havent you watched any other hindi movie ever, where they roam around in europe every now and then for songs, come on…. wo sadela stage mein doctor ke kapde mein dance dekhna tha kya tere ko)
Ghajini making aamir vegetable, was sensible, but never knew that Jiah has a scooty and is a concise story teller(wraps story within 15 minutes).
When Aki can make (Welcome, Tashan, Singh is King), SRK can make (OSO) and Salman(Yuvvraaj, Hello, Heroes, God tussi great ho) then why cant Aamir(thoda use bhi masti karne de yaar)
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@ Aditya Pant
“At this moment I half expected Aamir to open the tap and let the bad guy’s blood and guts on the floor, but it did not happen.â€
You will be surprised….this scene was actually there in the Tamil version and even shot for the Indian version, but the censor board found it too gory and ordered a cut. And we did not get to see the blood dripping from the tap.”
—> I wonder which Tamil version u watched, bcoz as far as i remember (Declaration: I dont have any acute memory loss problem) there wasnt any such scene in the Tamil Gajini… Very good story about the censor board n all… Good imagination from your side
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agree with gony dhony and ramesh….chill maar na yaar why have such a one track approach? learn to appreciate all kinds of cinema na. Ghajini is a great Bollywood masala film and THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT SET OUT TO BE. Dont compare it to Memento ‘cos they are two entirely different genres(similar storylines dont mean a damn thing). U can instead compare it to films like RNBDJ or SIK which are also typical commercial masala bollywood films, and I think Ghajini is this year’s best. It is a good ‘bollywoodized’ version of Memento, and i think Aamir knew that fully from the start.
I think this is a great period for Indian cinema when mainstream commercial films are becoming increasingly entertaining(pls ignore SIK and Heroes) AND when small indy films are also doing well simultaneously, so there is something for everyone. We as an audience should learn to appreciate this fact. Even big stars like SRK and Aamir are doing small films occasionally to challenge their talents and satisfy their creativity.
Lastly, I am gonna put my neck on the line(so to speak) by saying that psuedo-intellectualism and unnecessary bollywood-bashing have become the norm at PFC and this is something that has to be discouraged. Everyone has become Ebert these days. We have started dissecting everything a bit too much and stopped being in awe of the medium like we were as kids. Therefore, instead of becoming an ‘enlightened’ audience, we have become something equally bad or even worse than the dumb masala loving star crazy audience we are so averse to. (I cudn’t think of a word but I think u got the point anyways hehe)
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BTW Roger Ebert, equally enjoys the Hollywood masala stuff and has given good ratings to such flicks.
I think we just need to see a movie as is, and review it in context. Ghajini, was meant to be a hard core masala flick, and i think we just need to take it that way. And masala flicks, be it Bolly or Holly or Kolly or Tolly, work on suspension of disbelief. So getting worked up over logic and stuff, makes no sense.
Regards Aamir, i dont understand the reactions. I mean down South, Kamal does hard core masala flicks like Pammal K Sambandhan, Vasool Raja, Panchatanthiram along with the likes of Anbe Sivam, Virumandi, Hey Ram and most of us fans have no problem with it.
Michael Douglas does The Game and Wall Street kinda movies, along with hard core masala stuff like Basic Instinct, The Ghost and the Darkness. So i guess no harm in Aamir Khan doing such kinda stuff once in a while.
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The fact that this movie is a hit in India and among the NRI crowd speaks volumes for the maturity of the Indian audience. It is a copy of a copy and in the end it is the commercial viability of a product is all that matters. People like Aamir, SRK and Salman do seem to have a finger on the pulse of the “discerning ” Indian moviegoer.
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@ all of the above
I am not criticizing the movie because it is a masala movie, the point is that the movie was not well made. Let me ask you all one question while you were watching the movie did you at any point cheered Aamir for hitting the goons or did you feel sad when Asin died or were you scared when Ghajini kills all his enemies and hunts for Aamir or did you feel any sympathy for Aamir. I didn’t experienced any of these things and that is why I found the movie very lackluster and was bored. Even I expected pure entertainment but it was simply not there at least for me. As for why the movie is a hit? The answer is Aamir khan. No, other actor would’ve made Ghajini a hit, its because of his publicity and his image that Ghajini is a hit. He apeeared on TV talk shows, on reality music shows, had his portraits done by star. He knows how to sell his stuff.
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@DS- i thought the movie had some of the best technicians working on it …. from the music composer to the editor to the cinematographer.. and if u mean that movie was still not well made in the technical department then, I am sorry for not meeting the standards you expected.. well if you are talking abt the story not hard hitting and not made well enough… then so are most of the masala entertainers… I would be glad if you could point me to some of the masala flicks which moved u emotionally… (I had an impression that masala flicks were just for fun and not leave u impacted)….. As far as I am concerned Ghajini is just another masala flick and had fun watching it…. I dint feel there was any point in scrutinizing it(since I dint expect too much from it anyways)..
About the movie being a hit … hmmm … i guess people are curious to know how different Aamir is in this movie… and even if SRK had made this movie it would have gone to be as big a hit as it is now or even bigger… well OSO was a big hit and it was no better than this ….
PS: Ghajini has garnered way too much attention due to people bashing it left, right and centre..and this makes others(ppl who have not watched the movie) interested in knowing what the real deal is and is drawing them to theaters.. probably this could be a reason for the movie being such a big hit… after all even negative publicity is good in cinema
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@ devendra – 21
i totally agree with you..Saw the movie yesterday, it was a total masala movie but even a good masala movie can evoke an emotion and joy in some scenes.Even being a gr8 fan of aamir, i dint had good laugh or felt emotional in any scene of the movie..may be i couldn’t digest seeing aamir in that kind. But blame myself that i watched with that much of expectation when everybody including aamir said that it is a masala movie…
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@ skelly
aren’t laugh scenes in masala movies meant to make you laugh, aren’t action sequences supposed increase rush of adrenaline. The ‘Best’ technicians including Rehman in music, were just ordinary. You know even the best can falter. As for the masala flicks evoking emotions I can give you several names- Chak De India: had my Adrenaline flowin big time, Hulchul(Priyadarshan) the movie had absolute absurdity but was easily able to tickle your funny bone and you felt connected to the movie, Khosla Ka ghosla: the second half was completely unreal but you didn’t felt it because audience connected to the movie and it was very well made, even a very lesser movie ‘heroes’ it was able to arouse patriotism and some sympathy for the characters inspite of having all the masala and riff raff around the subject.
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“he should have copied Memento at least the movie would have been good.” – Bang on target!
BTW now they have released a promo of audience reactions and one of the educatated sweet pie says “It feels proud to know such directors do exist in India”. Could not stop laughing loudly
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Just having Aamir wouldn’t have taken the movie this far …shows being almost full on weekdays (I watched from the 3rd row on a 2:30pm show on 30th!!!) and sustaining the momentum of a great opening. Clearly, they have done most things right. As for me, the movie worked very well. Aamir was splendid, all other actors were good, I loved the music and the pace was great.
On why none of the goons had a gun during the climax, Aamir and Murugadoss were on some show on television and were asked the same Q. Their response was that they know that it is not logical but they wanted to focus on hand-to-hand at that stage of the movie. I don’t see anything wrong with that. They have clearly taken some liberties and those seem to have paid off. This may not be alright by some but is by others.
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@Devendra-24
I am in complete agreement with u.I could connect with the films u mentioned,but Ghajini was an absolute disappointment for me.
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I did not read the post (only few words), and only few words of comments. My request is, when you are posting something with details of movie pls pout spoilers alert.
Must be a good post, but will read it only after watching the movie.Thanks.
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@Abhishek
Thanx, Abhishek will keep that in mind.
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Come on guys! You failed to appreciate the postive side of the film. I mean which bollywood/hollywood film is perfect? Every film has its own loop holes. We cannot afford to get caught up in such mistakes and ignore the message, beauty of the film.
The film is about a man who attempts to take revenge on a “rowdy” responsible for the death of the love of his life and in the process reveals the man’s abundant love for his love and also touches our hearts with asin’s love for orphans and those in need.
The songs in this movie were simply spectacular. Consider the song, Ghuzarish for example. The song was shot in what appears to be a desert. The establishing shots of the desert indicate that the love of amir and asin doesnt have boundaries and is vast just like the desert. The desert is used metaphorically to reveal the love of Amir and Asin. Excellent cinematography!
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am i missing something ? was Ghajini marketed as an IQ test for the masses? if not why is it questioning everyone’s intelligence !! ..as far as i know it was marketed as nothing more than an entertaining and action packet film , why people are trying to look for logic etc as if its some kind of tautology equation !!..grow up guys , watch a movie for what its trying to be not what you think it should be .
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This movie is an insult to my intelligence, but then all indian movies are
Okay..make it most indian movies…
I went because i expected better of Aamir. I need to realise that he is not perfect!
what a piece of crap this movie was!
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I am able to find that ASIN’s love story with a wealthy industrialist in GHAJINI just matches SAAJAN(1969) starring Manoj Kumar & Asha Parekh.
Check out!!
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i think someone here compared Ghajini to Gadar
i beg to differ GADAR will remain GADAR which was last old school TRUE MASALA MOVIE of bollywood
all of these later so called “masala” movies are Gadar wanna be in terms of box office and MASS appeal
amir can make 100 ghajini’s but it will never reach at same level as Gadar
overall Ghajini was BIG disapointemnt amir suked in acting he seems constipated throughout whole movie
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agree movie was NEVER intended to be “serious logical” movie
however direction was SO BAD that at one moment i thought if movie is directed by HACK what’s up with those flashy camera movements???????
being masala movie doesn’t give movie an excuse to be really bad movie
u people are defending this movie because it starred amir
i bet if movie starred some other actor it would have been Ripped apart by everyone
and how come they didn’t give credits to MEMENTO
here in western countries stealing other’s work without giving FORMAL credits to original source is Big crime
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Ghajini is the biggest disappointment of this decade.Amir completely sucked in it.
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the funniest scene in the film was when asin sees some girls on crutches unable to cross an iron barred drain, the brilliant heroine tells them to board a gate and takes them across easily … yippee what a nice and intelligent girl!
and another scene – the more cliched the better – asin is walking with aamir when she sees a blind man unable to cross the road. she excuses herself and goes to help the blind man go to his destination while describing the world as she takes him along with her. what a nice girls … sob and she dies so young too boooo hooo wahhhh … if i was in aamir’s position i too would shave my head, build up my body instead of my paunch and go after the killer. I think the movies is very real. I suspect Jaideep Sahni or Amnurag Kashyap have ghost written this film.
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I completely agree with the post. Also, I think the reason they killed the police officer was because they were tired of making him to act…
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LOL @ Prakash
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@ Devendra Surolia
First of all, no-one is that insane to say that its a realistic film, nor is anyone claiming that this will take our cinema ahead. Just that Aamir Khan has a reputation of doing films that have been a treat to watch even for critics & this one just remains an entertainer.
Just because of this fact, if we want to ridicule an effort by the Writer-Director (Who god knows might naturally be of this taste!!), it does sound unfair to me, if not ridiculous!! To me every film is the Writer/directors’ baby first. We only give that much importance to the actors & then we only cringe when they overpower other creative forces.
tell me one thing, Had Aamir not acted in Ghajini, had we asked these many questions??? the answer is plain NO. Why are we still considering a film merely as an actor’s medium then…..Talk about Murgadoss & his writing, his skills or the lack of it, whatever u feel!! Don’t be unfair to them, ‘coz of this one man, Plz.
Its a simple fact….take two Aamir films, both not great in terms of Cinema & fall into the Commercial-masala genre…Fanaa & Ghajini…..few people didn’t like both….few liked the first, didn’t like the latter, few didn’t like the first one, liked the latter (I fall in this catagory) & then few liked both (The masses)…..put yourself in one of the catagories….
So, if u haven’t liked it….u have every right to discuss the reasons behind it…but again, there is a difference between criticizing & ridiculing…..
What is the point in finding logic in a film like Ghajini?? If we expect it to be logical for our own reasons, who is at fault???? Did Murgadoss claim that??? We put Ghajini on the same anvil as Memento. They always denied it.. Aamir said in many of his interviews that its an action-masala flick that he’s enjoying doing after a long long time….
Another thing, What is Honest marketing??? You make a Ghajini & promote it like Ghajini….so that audience knows what are they buying tickets for.
Let me tell you, i have been on the other side (Your side perhaps) when Gadar hit bulls’ eye despite being such a weak & illogical film…..I as a viewer had a problem as i thought that the film was not marketed honestly….They say that the film is based on the partition & all that & show us a hero that defies all physics laws!!! I was being conned. In Ghajini, i didn’t feel like that.
The point is i understand what your angst, but the reason to this disappointment is not something else but your own expectations…Thats it. they delivered what they promised & those who loooooved it, loooooved it for various reasons, those who didn’t, didn’t.
Just because of the proven track-record of a fantastic actor, we are side-lining the whole creative force that made this average-to-good flick engaging for the masses. Its an above average film, thats it!!! What made people whistle for Sanjay in the end then??? What made people relate to the love story??? (Come out of metros to see that please…) That’s the point to be discussed about, if we creatively want to learn something out of it. The reason for this film to become such a nbig hit is not only Aamir for sure…Had that been the reason, even Mela would have been a biiig hit.
Be honest & true to yorself & judge it as a film…..not as an actors’ showcase of talent or decision making…u’ll get my point.
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I agree to most of you that it was not something that was liked by most of us. But still is considered to be the highest grosser of the year.
Few point from my side, how did Aamir from the contacts in the Mobile know that its Ghajini he is after-what about other names in the contacts. No mention of Ghajini in his flat’s post-its. Meaning first time he saw Ghajini as a name was in contacts. Weird-only to me?
Do you don’t find it weirder to have a film’s name on name of villain. I don’t remember Sholay was called Gabbar or Shaan was Shaakal. Or Mr India as Mr Mogambo. Its not a good way of potraying your film!
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The issue with films as a genre, and its patrons (That’s us, the viewers) is that stereotypes are simultaneously rejoiced upon and reviled. So we our image of an Aamir Khan–intelligent, suave, and discerning maker/actor of movies (stereotype), the one-film-a-year, DCH guy—getting zapped by this mean-marauding machine, more at home perhaps in Chennai theatres with college-goers happy for ever more blood and gore, than in a Hindi, feel-good movie. In other words, Aamir has gone against the grain of his established stereotype of the past few years, the one like and are comfortable with. How could Aamir stoop so low?
But what about movies like ‘Daulat ki Jang’? What about ‘Aatank hi Aatank’, ‘Sahebzaade’, ‘Tum Mere Ho’, ‘Love Love Love’, and even ‘Ghulam’, for that matter? No, I’m not referring to trash cinema–every actor has those–but that Aamir is also a commercial cinema star, who’s bowed before to the lure of lucre, and will do again. ‘Ghajini’ was never meant for a college (DCH) audience, never mind the intellectual types. ‘Ghajini’ is a full-blown masala movie, with a lot of spice (Alright, some Southern spice). Every scene, causality and event in the film scream for suspension of disbelief, every emotion is amplified, the Hero is all manners, and brains, all p’s and q’s tied up, Asin has the milk of human kindness rapidly coursing through every vein–Florence Nightingale, Mother Teresa, and Aishwarya Rai in one, Pradeep Rawat is an enterpreneur, an industrialist (runs a pharma company), small-time goon (demeanour, attire and accoutrements, including the henchmen), big-time goon (runs a kidney racket, and dresses nattily at times), all combined in one, and with evil oozing from every pore. There are so many improbables in the movie that it’d take me all day to write them. As it happens with such movies, the mind quickly start providing poetic licenses wholesale, if that’s the way to put it, and once the nagging question of verisimilitude is done away with, one can start enjoying the movie. Horses for courses my friends, so I can enjoy ‘Ghajini’, then come home and enjoy ‘Mulholland Dr.’ too!
Forgive ‘Ghajani’ for it does not profess to be a smart movie at all!
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one of the funny scenes was when the MAVERICK cop finished reading aamir’s first diary, he’s so excited to know more that he beats up aamir and wants to know where the rest of his story is. lol.
It takes talent and hardwork to make such an illogical and crapppy movie. If they werent trying so hard to make it different from memento, they’d have probably made a better film.
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