Ghajini (2008)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

A.R. Murugadoss

Writer:

A.R. Murugadoss (writer)

Release Date:

25 December 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

Remember Dec.25

Plot:

Mumbai-based wealthy Sanjay Singhania is the Chair of Air Voice, lives now as a semi-crazed recluse in Odyssey Apartments in Hiranandani Complex...

Plot Keywords:

Apartment | Polaroid | Tattoo | Knocked Out | Memory

Awards:

3 wins & 10 nominations

Cast

Aamir Khan	...	Sanjay 'Sanju' Singhania / Sachin
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tinnu Anand	...	Satveer Kohli - Kalpana's boss
Asin	...	Kalpana Shetty
Vibha Chhibber	...	Havaldar Vijyanti
Sunil Grover	...	Sampat / Sanjay Singhania
Jiah Khan	...	Sunita
Riyaz Khan	...	Inspector Arjun Yadav
Anjum Rajabali	...	Dr. Debu Mitra
Sonal Sehgal	...	Model - Kite Washing Powder
Khalid Siddiqui	...	Manager - Air Voice
Pradeep Singh Rawat	...	Ghajini Dharmatma (as Pradeep Rawat)
Kunal Vijaykar	...	Journalist

Runtime:

Australia:183 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

UK:15 | New Zealand:R16 | Australia:MA (2008) | Australia:MA | India:UA (cinema release) | Hong Kong:IIB

Filming Locations:

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Company:

Geetha Arts

Trivia:

During the production stages the marketing department released the tonsured wounded head shot of Aamir Khan's new appearance for the movie. That made many fans try the 'new hairstyle' and named it as "the Ghajini cut". Some of the institutions even banned that haircut, feeling that it looks bad on the students and brings down the reputation of the college.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Sunita (Jia Khan) goes to library and gets a newspaper from archives department and takes it to the school, but in reality libraries never gives old newspapers to take home. And in the newspaper you can see girl's picture clearly printed on the front page but in reality you never find any such photographs without their face covered.

Movie Connections:

Remake of Ghajini (2005)

Soundtrack:

Behka

A Good Movie that could have been Great

I am a big fan of Aamir Khan and his detail oriented approach towards every project he undertakes. It's with this expectation I went to see the movie. For the most part it matched my expectations. However, there were a couple of aspects in the movie which disappointed me. This is a revenge motivated movie, so action plays a very important role. Here's where the quality drops. The main villain was wrong for the part, he's been playing henchman for so long, you just can't upgrade him to the main villain's role in such a big budget movie. Second, he is such a big don in the crime world but not one of his men carries a gun. Do you buy this?; especially in the day and age where every foot soldier in a crime syndicate carries an automatic/AK47, just to gain respect. All these guys have, are broken metal pipes. Come to think if there was a gang war these guys wouldn't last a day. Aamir Khan's 8 pack abs was impressive but his fighting style and ability left much to be desired. His fighting style reminded you of "Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander". One would expect with age and experience this perfectionist would have perfected the art of hand to hand combat. The plot, acting is still quite good but as far as action goes, the word "limited" comes to mind.