My watching of Ghajini(hindi) was totally unplanned for and I was more than satisfied. Actually one person sitting 3 seats away from me was so engrossed in movie that for most part of movie he was on edge of seat leaning forward and even resting his hands on the front row seats in front of him. I normally see at least some people leaving the theater quite sometime before the ending. But for the first time I saw none leaving the movie hall and all remained seated till the very end, despite having good attendance(Balcony, don’t know of other classes). Actually all were so engrossed and wanted to see more of Kalpana-Sanjay despite the film being a little lengthy.
Critics -May be people went with the high expectations being an Aamir movie.Another reason might be some people went with the hidden agenda of writing a Movie review later, and this being always at the back of mind and could only notice flaws in the movie, thus failed to enjoy the movie. There are also some others who could only digest anything that is foreign, ie. English or other foreign language films, but fail to provide same judgment criteria to Indian movies. So foreign heroes can jump bullets, fight any number of guys single-handly, use advanced gadgets which is based on half-baked scientific knowledge. We enjoy it because we know novelty of the concept is important however unreasonable it is. In case of James Bond movies Villain having all powers and ideas wont kill James bond in captivity despite knowing his past credentials only to be eliminated by bond later. James bond can fight a entire a battalion of bad guys. Can get into a pilot less plane speeding to the bottom of a mountain cliff, and then take control of plane. Well James bond is the extreme but most of their action movies do have unreasonable stunts and use of gadgets.
Ghajini is a funny named film.Original Tamil version was also named so, but without any valid explanation. In Hindi version it gives a explanation for naming it so.Please check out the movie itself to find for yourselves whether it is a convincing explanation.Anyway I prefer Ghajini to have some kind of link to movie, and for this reason it was surely an improvement on Tamil version.
In Tamil, Surya-Asin chemistry was great but the ending 30 minutes was unbearable. Infact while seeing tamil gajini when the end titles were shown, a person in the first row in center got up immediately and mockingly folded his hand above his head and stood there for about 1minute in a funny way(Only time I had seen such a reaction and still remember, infact all the people was laughing seeing this). My friend with me couldn’t believe how could there be such a crap movie. Remember Tamil has in recent times had some great movies and this movie was alsogood for its novelty, but the climax of tamil Ghajini, well it has the power to neutralize all the good work shown before. Actually it did surprise me later to know that this movie was such a big hit. Later while watching on vcd I did liked the movie because of great acting by surya and asin but climax was a strict skip.
The highlight of the movie is the love story of Kalpana(played by asin) and Sanjay(played by Aamir). Although Aamir has worked hard for action sequences and was great in conveying his anger and pain in losing his loved one, still the part people will always be remembering would be the love story between Kalpana and Sanjay. Such a sweet love story, however unreasonable it may sound, we love to believe it. After this movie “Kalpana” is going to be a popular name. Those with this name would be having a blast. That much people love Kalpana and all her pranks and inner goodness. Of course the character is not explained in depth but from whatever we had seen or shown she is definitely some one all would love to be associated with. A great mix of naughtiness and goodness.
Asin here playing Kalpana is a struggling model and due to a situation she was mistaken to be the girlfriend of a very successful businessman Sanjay played by Aamir(A door playing a great part in it, check the movie to find the perfect timing of opening/closing). So Asin plays along with this and cooks a great story to it and even tells the same to Aamir in point blank range without knowing actually Aamir itself is the said person she is claiming to be in love with. A person named Sachin seeking asin’s recommendation for modeling assignments had just visited asin before aamir came to meet her. So mistakenly she confuses aamir to have had told his name as Sachin before, and aamir also plays along with this. Later she accepts aamirs marriage proposal all along thinking he is sachin-a want to be model. Aamir keeps delaying to reveal his true identity wanting her to be behaving same as she was, towards him. Finally before aamir could tell her all about him, tragedy strikes and she got killed and aamir was left with short-term memory loss from the incident. Rest of the story tells how aamir despite his disability take revenge for it.
As for me it was a commendable job given the challenging subject, and can easily understand director taking some liberties. Those who are criticizing are hereby requested to provide a viable alternative for those parts, without losing the punch. We all know of movie critics who blast all films, but later when they directed a movie it was even bigger crap and was criticized by critics and public alike.
Some scenes which I particularly remember in Ghajini(Hindi)
1.Bachu song–introducing asin. Great energy shown by her. Though I did liked Guzarish and Kaisea Mujhea, after seeing the movie, bachu also became my favourite.
2.Again in bachu song Asin goes into a door and in next scene she comes through the same door(exact place in scene) in a different out fit.
3.When aamir first met asin, asin tells aamir that sanjay proposed her for marriage, Background music then is of a crow caw(ka ka….). actually the whole scene and dialogues are very enjoyable and provide for good repeat viewing.
4.In party sampath saying to aamir “Tumharea liyea ithna thanda bahuth hey”, and accompanying background music.
5.Ending kaisea mujhea song second part showing asin and aamir sitting in bench(first part also was also good. ie aamir carrying the money given by asin). This kind of ending gave a positive feeling while coming out after movie.
3 weeks Post Ghajini
After all these days of seeing the movie, now and then comes into mind the incomplete love in gajini, what if the tragedy didn’t happen
when aamir tells asin about his true identity, what could be her reaction. Also I keep thinking how could have aamir started revealing this real identity. What could be thepossible starting/middle/ending dialogues?(I have a vague idea, but yet to finalize).
If asin insists on buying 3 ambassadors by her own earnings may be aamir could arrange 0% interest loan for 3 ambassadors which she could repay with her income later.
What could have aamir done with 1 lakh+ rupees given by asin to him?.
4.Would aamir be finding out the ambassador that asin sold, and buying back at any possible price .ie. It symbolizes Sacrifice of own goals for the happiness of somebody you love.
I am in no way an expert to write a movie review and had written as I felt. Thanks for reading my review and special thanks to those who had the patience to read it in full.
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