A short-term memory loss patient sets out on his journey to avenge the death of his beloved girl.A short-term memory loss patient sets out on his journey to avenge the death of his beloved girl.A short-term memory loss patient sets out on his journey to avenge the death of his beloved girl.
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7.3/10
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- Director
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- Piyush Mishra(dialogue)
- A.R. Murugadoss(story and screenplay)
- Christopher Nolan(based on a screenplay by)
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- Director
- Writers
- Piyush Mishra(dialogue)
- A.R. Murugadoss(story and screenplay)
- Christopher Nolan(based on a screenplay by)
- Stars
- Awards
- 17 wins & 23 nominations
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Storyline
Medical student, Sunita, is driven by curiosity to study the case of Sanjay Singhania, who is afflicted with short-term memory loss. She runs into him, befriends him, and finds out that he is out to kill a seemingly benevolent citizen, Ghajini Dharmatma. After warning the latter of the impending danger, she subsequently comes across a number of diaries written by Sanjay and attempts to put together a jigsaw puzzle as to how a successful and wealthy businessman became a crazed recluse, who re-lives his past through tattoos on his body, notes and Polaroid photographs on the wall of his Hiranandani Complex flat, and his sole obsession of carrying out his deadly mission - little knowing that Ghajini and his goons are out to erase every bit of evidence he has gathered and thus ensure that he ends up remembering nothing. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
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- Not Rated
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- TriviaThe mobile phone number imprinted on Aamir Khan's body shown in the movie turned out to be a real phone number used by a woman in Bangalore. After the movie was released she got lots of calls and texts. Even though the distributors of the film wanted to help her, the posters of the movie showing Aamir's toned body with tattooed number were marketed widely before the movie released. (See also Bruce Almighty (2003).)
- GoofsThere is a scene where Sanjay Singhania (aamir khan) is giving interviews to media people, but in the end it is said that no one has ever seen Sanjay Singhania.
- Crazy creditsThe film is named after the villain.
- Alternate versionsThree cuts were made before the film was granted a U/A (parental guidance) rating from the censors. These included:
- A man hits Asin with a rod twice, this was cut by 50%
- Aamir Khan breaks a baddie's neck, the scene was cut by 50%
- Aamir hits a villain with a tap and when the knob of the tap pierces the baddie's stomach, blood starts dripping from the tap.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 54th Filmfare Awards (2009)
- SoundtracksTu Meri Aduri Pyaas Pyaas, Tu Aa Gai Mann Ko Raas Raas
Lyrics by Prasoon Joshi
Composed by A.R. Rahman
Performed by Javed Ali and Sonu Nigam
Courtesy of Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series)
Top review
Before I kill you, I'll show you exactly how I killed your Kalpana.
First, the music is by A.R. Rahman, and this genius who also did Slumdog Millionaire really made this film entertaining. Thee film will be familiar to a lot of viewers, as it is a loose remake of Momento. One can hardly imagine how Rahman's music would fit, but it does because it is also a love story. How did they do that? The rich Sanjay 'Sanju' Singhania pretends to be an average Joe named Sachin. Aamir Khan was great in the dual role, and I can imagine that throngs of girls, and not a few gay men will be enchanted with him as he is shirtless in the part of the movie where he is seeking his girlfriend's killer (Pradeep Singh Rawat).
The girlfriend is Kalpana (Asin). She is fantastic and definitely will keep your interest through the long three hours of this film. She does one too many good deeds and it cost her her life.
It is fascinating in the end when Ghajini catches up with him. The steps he took to "erase" his memory. But, it didn't do any good.
Really good combination of thriller, revenge, and love story as only Bollywood can do it.
The girlfriend is Kalpana (Asin). She is fantastic and definitely will keep your interest through the long three hours of this film. She does one too many good deeds and it cost her her life.
It is fascinating in the end when Ghajini catches up with him. The steps he took to "erase" his memory. But, it didn't do any good.
Really good combination of thriller, revenge, and love story as only Bollywood can do it.
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- lastliberal
- Nov 8, 2009
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Box office
- Budget
- ₹200,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,430,627
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $766,859
- Dec 28, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $38,316,584
- Runtime3 hours 6 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
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