Ghajini (2008)

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The plot of A.R. Murugadoss' Ghajini borrows heavily from Christopher Nolan's Memento. Sanjay (Aamir Khan) suffers from short-term memory loss. He spends his days attempting to take revenge on those responsible for the death of his girlfriend, but his condition complicates this process. To help him,… More The plot of A.R. Murugadoss' Ghajini borrows heavily from Christopher Nolan's Memento. Sanjay (Aamir Khan) suffers from short-term memory loss. He spends his days attempting to take revenge on those responsible for the death of his girlfriend, but his condition complicates this process. To help him, he constantly makes notes for himself. Some of the notes take the form of crude homemade tattoos. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 3 hr. 3 min.
Directed By: A.R. Murugadoss
Written By: A.R. Murugadoss
Genres: Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure

In Theaters: Dec 25, 2008 Wide
On DVD: Mar 24, 2009
Studio: Adlab Films

Critic Reviews

Joe Leydon, Variety
An exuberantly excessive and unreasonably entertaining mash-up of musical-comedy romance, action-movie mayhem and psycho-thriller suspense.
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It's hard to look past that this is a gaudy ripoff of Christopher Nolan's Memento (2000), stealing the idea of short-term memory loss every 15 minutes."
David Chute, L.A. Weekly
Aamir Khan, a teen idol in the early '90s turned dashing romantic leading man, has for several years been Bollywood's most exportable overachiever.
Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com
Aamir Khan, as usual, displays his fierce commitment to the role, whether nimbly performing a besotted song and dance or brutally kicking all manner of *ss on his warpath.

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familiar s

Wonder why Aamir went for it. He mimicked Surya (original Ghajini's lead actor) for most of the part, which was something I never expected from Aamir. Also, the movie was hardly interesting or entertaining for me and certain things were overdone and repetitive. Really a bad one… More
Wonder why Aamir went for it. He mimicked Surya (original Ghajini's lead actor) for most of the part, which was something I never expected from Aamir. Also, the movie was hardly interesting or entertaining for me and certain things were overdone and repetitive. Really a bad one which did pretty good at the B.O.!!!
Lady D

Much more than just a Bollywood version of ?Memento?, it offers a much more in depth background story which builds nicely to a revenge plot. The occasionally songs throughout the film were entertaining and fit well as do the soundtrack songs. The flashing back and forth in time… More
Much more than just a Bollywood version of ?Memento?, it offers a much more in depth background story which builds nicely to a revenge plot. The occasionally songs throughout the film were entertaining and fit well as do the soundtrack songs. The flashing back and forth in time provided a good order in which to tell the story and is much different to ?Memento? in that respect also. Aamir Khan played a an impressive lead role here, with a quite a transformation in character, who with a very athletic physique, provides some enjoyable fight scenes and moves. Lengthly, but a very enjoyable watch and has instantly become part of my favourite films list.
Lesley N

3 hour Bollywood film., with your typical boy-girl-on-off romance bludgeoned into a Memento-lite plot, complete with roaring, bicep-flexing, bare-chested, tattoed and forgetful lead Very silly, but Aamir Khan, as ever, is veeerrryy cute. <img… More
3 hour Bollywood film., with your typical boy-girl-on-off romance bludgeoned into a Memento-lite plot, complete with roaring, bicep-flexing, bare-chested, tattoed and forgetful lead Very silly, but Aamir Khan, as ever, is veeerrryy cute. <img src="http://aravinth4ever.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/ghajini-wallpaper21.jpg">
Kevin M

My first reaction when approaching this Bollywood remake of Christopher Nolan's 'Memento' was slight reluctance, but with my friend's recommendation, I found it to be very entertaining. At a double-long playlength, director Murugadoss provides an in-depth… More
My first reaction when approaching this Bollywood remake of Christopher Nolan's 'Memento' was slight reluctance, but with my friend's recommendation, I found it to be very entertaining. At a double-long playlength, director Murugadoss provides an in-depth (sometimes funny) but quirky love story and a tragic series of events which support its action-thriller plotline. I was warned about its intense plagiarism from 'Memento'; however, if you were to skip past the musical (song & dance) numbers and concentrate on some of the stronger dramatic elements, you may appreciate this 2nd most highly-successful Indian film to date. As my friend (AB) put it: all the female leads are extremely gorgeous, the male leads are ridiculously muscular (with perpetual flexing), and most of the action scenes are well-planned. This seems to be one worth watching.