A good movie - at least a different treatment than many violent love stories. Aamir is as usual brilliant and the heroine Asin is good in spite of this being her first Hindi movie.
The movie has lots of shades of South Indian movies in its music, dance, and fights. In certain parts the movie has some illogical sequences if you start analysing. e.g. MD of a big telecom corporation does not go personally to select a site for putting an advertising hoardings. Or the henchman of a Haryanavi don are all South Indians. Or the damsel in distress not using texting on the mobile.
But technicaly it is a brilliant and gripping picturisation. Narrative keeps moving with good camera work, colors, editing, background music and sound affects. The song picturisation is again very South Indian.
But technicaly it is a brilliant and gripping picturisation. Narrative keeps moving with good camera work, colors, editing, background music and sound affects. The song picturisation is again very South Indian.
The start is violent, middle has some violence and the ending is quite violent. The violence however is a necessity at various places but some gory details that are kept in today's movies for realism sake could have been left out.
The romance of the Sanjay and Kalpana is handled brilliantly with Asin's innocent and carefree side and Aamir's quiet admiration turning into adoration.
All in all it is quite a complete Bollywood movie with a good mix of light comedy, suspense and tragedy, fast paced action, and just the right concoction of human emotions of love, anguish, pain and anger.
People compare it to the original movie 'Memento' but that is unfair. When the director producer have acknowledged that their movie is an improvised version of the Hollywood movie then we should accept that. Obviously an Indianisation of the plot had to happen and songs and dance had to be introduced, so why this hullabulloo? People say that it was not a movie worthy of Aamir's skills - but then do we think any other actor could have done more justice to the role of a person afflicted by Short Term Memory Loss. People say that the movie is very loud ... but aren't most Indian movies. So why do we benchmark our movie against its Englsh original rather than compare it with other movies of a similar genre.
Ghajini has also proved that Aamir is versatile enough to be able to handle romantic as well as violent kind of roles apart from the thinking person's role like in Lagaan, Rang De Basanti or Taare Zamin Par. Cheers to that !!
Rating : *****
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