Ghajini is not Memento

GHAJINI IS NOT MEMENTO

Leave Aamir Khan alone for making a re-make of two different movies. I can bet on this one that at least Ghajini is not a remake of Christopher Nolan's 2005 film Memento. It is although inspired from it as you see the Tattoo Stuff which is a mere copy cat act. Still you can't blame Aamir for this as it had already been copied in the Tamil Ghajini. It's a remake of Tamil Ghajini but in a Mumbaiyya way.

It has a touch of the Action of down south Mollywood and Stunts like Cheeru Anna & Rajni Anna. If you compare the story of the two flicks Ghajini & Memento there is a similarity but not resemblance. Memento doesn't have a line in the story its just events roped into a timeline, no chronology or sensible information which can be extracted from watching it Top to Bottom.

However, Ghajini is predominantly a love story, which revolves around Aamir's intense love for his lover who doesn't even know his real identity as he pretends her to be a common man even though he is the CEO or Air Voice Company the leading Cell Phone Network Company.

Memento is something you'll have to watch it again and again because it is impossible to make sense of it in one go. It has three stories in one. First one being of Leonard Shelby, (played by Guy Pierce) who has a short term memory disorder (anterograde amnesia) and keeps forgetting things after he had been hit by a goon who killed his wife infront of him. Another Story being of Sammy Jankis whom he pretends of knowing and had a similar disorder. Sammy later killed his own wife by an Insulin Overdose because he forgets that he has already fed her diabetic wife enough of the medicine already. The last story being the Black & White Scenes where he receives Phone Calls from an Anonymous caller in his hotel room.

Ghajini is very logical Indian Made Love Story in which the Hero Wont die until he has killed the villain even though you stab him with a rod right into his stomach and hit him hard with metal chairs, rods, pillars and imaginable fighting objects. Sanjay Singhania (Aamir Khan) is a filthily rich guy who is in Town to take over the Air Voice empire after hi father's demise. He falls in love with a simple girl who works as a model in Ad Films. He pretends like a common struggler to impress her and gets her 'I Do' so easily without even telling her who he was. His investigation is not shown completely and even his tattoo scenes are not shown in the movie. A very good depiction of fear is shown in the eyes of the slain police inspector and even the goons of Ghajini are afraid of confronting full blown Sanjay Singhania.

The songs are all wrongly placed and the movie would have been better without them. The scenes where are the Heroine Asin is shown in her good light like when she helps Blind Man, Physically Challenged Children and Young Girls to be sold in Goa are all worthless and could have been avoided. I feel the director just wants to show how good Aamir's lover was that he can't forget her even if he suffers from 'Anterograde Amnesia'.

Overall a good movie, tremendous performance by Aamir & the lady Asin but direction is weak and editing could be improved and obviously the length could have been cut short.

Rating: **

I would rate it 2 out of 5 Stars.

PS: The Work out of Aamir's 8 Pack Abs is very good but is not a very healthy physique according to his counterparts like Salman Bhai & Sunny Paaji. They have challenged him to maintain this physique for at least a year more. Let's see how our Mr Perfectionist is able to prove them wrong.

Adios!!