Ghajini (2008)

A short-term memory loss patient sets out on his journey to avenge the death of his beloved girl.

Director:

A.R. Murugadoss

Writers:

Piyush Mishra (dialogue), A.R. Murugadoss (story and screenplay)

Stars:

Aamir Khan, Asin, Jiah Khan

Top Rated Indian Movies #221 | 7 wins & 16 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Aamir Khan	...	Sanjay Singhania / Sachin
Asin	...	Kalpana Shetty
Jiah Khan	...	Sunita
Tinnu Anand	...	Satveer Kohli
Pradeep Singh Rawat	...	Ghajini Dharmatma (as Pradeep Rawat)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Asif Ahmed
John Cardiel
Vibha Chhibber	...	Havaldar Vijyanti
Neville Dadachanji	...	Mr. Mehta
Salim Fatehi	...	Aamir's bodyguard
Mahendra Gole
Sunil Grover	...	Sampat / Sanjay Singhania
Simon Hewitt
Kiran Deep Jagi
Raj Jamdade

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.

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Plot Keywords:

short term memory | businessman | tattoo | short term memory loss | polaroid | 

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Taglines:

Remember Dec.25

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi Urdu

Release Date:

24 December 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

Гаджини

Filming Locations:

Film City, Goregaon, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Box Office

Budget:

INR 200,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$288,075, 2 January 2009, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$2,430,631

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$41,430,631

Company Credits

Production Co:

Geetha Arts

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

As a child Jiah Khan's favorite actor remained Aamir Khan and favorite movie remained Colorful (1995). Jiah Khan's first film was Nishabd (2007), directed by Ram Gopal Varma who directed "Rangeela" ,and the second film turned out to be Ghajini (2008) with Aamir Khan who was the hero of "Rangeela".

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Goofs

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.

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Crazy Credits

The film is named after the villain.

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Connections

Referenced in Fuk sau (2009)

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Soundtracks

Tu 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)

User Reviews

Entertaining

Ghajini is an entertainer.

It has loads of action,comedy,drama and romance which makes it a family packed entertainer.

The story is good.

Screenplay is penned very well.

But the problem is that the movie is long,it could have been trimmed 15-20 minutes and the movie even gets violent at times,which could have been shortened.

Direction by A.R Murugadass is excellent.

The music is very good.

Performance wise-Aamir Khan is menacing.He is superb.Newcomer Asin is very good.Jiah Khan is perfect.Pradeep Rawat is first rate.

Overall Ghajini is an entertainer.