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jayes_musings) wrote2009-05-28 05:17 pm
jayes_musings) wrote2009-05-28 05:17 pm
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Movie: Ghajini
So I finally got around to watching Ghajini. It's my first non-Hrithik Bollywood film, and it was excellent. It is a remake of a Tamil film of the same name, and based on "Memento."
Sanjay Singhania (Aamir Khan) has, due to blunt force trauma, short term memory loss and can remember things for only fifteen minutes. He leaves notes all about his apartment to help him remember things, tattoos notes on himself, and carries a Polaroid camera which beeps every fifteen minutes so he can take a photo so he knows where he is. In this way he is tracking down the man who murdered his girlfriend, Kalpana, a the titular Ghajini. In flashbacks we learn who Sanjay was and how he met Kalpana.
There are a few plotholes in the film, namely the police officer stopping to read Sanjay's diary without calling for backup to come and arrest Sanjay, when he's only unconscious, loosely tied up, and evidence of several murders all around the apartment. Frankly, the cop deserved what he got. There were other parts were suspension of disbelief got stretched pretty thin (he writes his diary in Hindu, but tattoos himself in English?), but in all, it was very well done and the kept up the pace so it didn't feel as long as it was. It's also very violent, brutally so, but it was central to the plot rather than just mindless.
Aamir was exceptional as Sanjay, although CEO Sanjay was so cute, I liked memory-loss Sanjay better, because he was just so intense, unstoppable, not to mention HAWT! The only thing that could have been toned down was his rage, just too animalistic and over the top. Otherwise, brilliant. I wouldn't say that Aamir comes close to the hotness of Hrithik (sorry Layla!), he's just too short for me...it wouldn't usually matter, but throughout the movie I couldn't help thinking, god he's short. *g*
Sanjay Singhania (Aamir Khan) has, due to blunt force trauma, short term memory loss and can remember things for only fifteen minutes. He leaves notes all about his apartment to help him remember things, tattoos notes on himself, and carries a Polaroid camera which beeps every fifteen minutes so he can take a photo so he knows where he is. In this way he is tracking down the man who murdered his girlfriend, Kalpana, a the titular Ghajini. In flashbacks we learn who Sanjay was and how he met Kalpana.
There are a few plotholes in the film, namely the police officer stopping to read Sanjay's diary without calling for backup to come and arrest Sanjay, when he's only unconscious, loosely tied up, and evidence of several murders all around the apartment. Frankly, the cop deserved what he got. There were other parts were suspension of disbelief got stretched pretty thin (he writes his diary in Hindu, but tattoos himself in English?), but in all, it was very well done and the kept up the pace so it didn't feel as long as it was. It's also very violent, brutally so, but it was central to the plot rather than just mindless.
Aamir was exceptional as Sanjay, although CEO Sanjay was so cute, I liked memory-loss Sanjay better, because he was just so intense, unstoppable, not to mention HAWT! The only thing that could have been toned down was his rage, just too animalistic and over the top. Otherwise, brilliant. I wouldn't say that Aamir comes close to the hotness of Hrithik (sorry Layla!), he's just too short for me...it wouldn't usually matter, but throughout the movie I couldn't help thinking, god he's short. *g*