Thursday, January 08, 2009

Ghajini: La Cinema Extraordinaire













Gajini was one of the most innovative work of art in 2008. Once again 10 pointers on how Gajjini was so fresh and innovative:
  1. Sanjay Singhania - He is the first billionaire CEO, an MBA from Harvard who wear shirts with half sleeves rolled up (yes rolled up!) to go with his business suits
  2. Nobody have seen SS or his picture ever
  3. American Physical Society in collaboration with a team of senior physicists from MIT is setting up a multi million dollar research project to understand the "Gajjini Physics" and it's impact on humanity
  4. When the senior executives see SS on road while SS is eating water melon they'd salute him like a bunch of watchmen
  5. Jiah Khan- A medical student while she is not studying or taking notes from her professor on how the brain is "headquarter" of body would do all those item songs, rescuer act, helping Gajjini, playing spy-spy game, read SS's diary and more
  6. SS gets away from law after killing some one billion or more people
  7. Why SS didnt use iPhone reminders but the tattoos? Just to copy Memento
  8. SS as a CEO a telecom giant, searches for hoarding space for his company when is not managing his company
  9. SS gives the Thele wala his credit card but gives the change to the rickshaw wallas
  10. Was this the same Amir who gave us Taare Zameen Per?

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have a question to your readers….The original Tamil movie was called “Ghajini”, since it rhymed with “Rajini” (Rajnikanth). Even though the title makes no sense in Hindi, why did Aamir Khan stick to the same name “Ghajini”?

Geetanjali said...

@Bengal Voice
The reasons he stuck with the title ''Ghajini'' are in all likelihood twofold. One, the tamil director may have insisted on it, as one of the copyright terms. Secondly Aamir has gone all out this time to promote his movie, and to generate this response (''what does ghajini mean''?)amongst many such in his fans.
@Abhinav
I agree that a lot of expectations had been generated post TZP and Ghajini doesn't fall in the same superior league. I actually yawned post interval quite a few times!Point no. 2 was quite glaring..the other lapses that I noticed too, were points 4, 5, 6 and yes even 10! An additional one I noted was that Asin should have had the sense to put her mobile on silent mode (since she had displayed the great sense otherwise to find a good hiding spot)..also the whole feamle protagonist saving those kids on the train was a tad too filmy coming from Aamir Khan.

Anonymous said...

@ Geetanjali
Yawning in second half is ok but calling it forgettable will be precipitate. I will lie awake many a night wondering why there are such gems in the movie:
Asinine says to SS ” tum wo zameen mat bechna - tumhare khaandaan ki aakhri nishani hai”
Why does Ghajini have a Haryanvi accent?
Does Indian press never ever print the photo of an heir recently returned from videsh or does Asinine never read / see the news?

Anonymous said...

@ Geetanjali and Abhinav

Ghajini was not worth the money that we spend on it, but atleast it was better than the SRK Rab Ne melodrama. Honestly, I think AK could have done away without those 8-packs, seeing an aged person with “his head moving fast from side to side from some bizarre reason” was horrendous enough to scare Ghajini to his death. I think Dostana was a more enjoyable experience.

Anonymous said...

@ Bengal Voice

i am disappointed by the name Ghajini. Would you have gone to watch the film if its name was say Seth Charandas!Also, in parts of the movie you have the feel of -ohh so south indianish- some fight scenes and songs were like cut paste from a south indian movie. Overall, not a bad but overhyped movie

Unknown said...

well i still havent seen the movie.. and since i always knew that its a momento remake.. i doubt they would have done as good as the original..!!

Momento was just too good!!

TheQuark said...

@Bengal Voice:

Ghajini:Rajini :: Ghunny:Sunny?

This is the closest one can get to Rajini in the terms of newtonian physics defying action, though a poor match.

Abhinav said...

@ Quark and Bengal Voice
Comparing anybody to Rajini and Rajini Physics is now a criminal offense under IPC. :P

Divesh said...

yaar pata nahi aap log movie mein kya dhoondh rahe the par agar dimaag na lagao to movie mein sahi mein maza aa jaayega ..

bandi ne wo jo dialogue maara tha "ye kanghi nahi, kangha hai.. jawaan mardon ki pasand, aashiqana.. kangha" .. wo to ek dum kamaal tha..

kabhi vincenz mein show chalwaate hain .. phir aapko bhi achchhi lagegi movie

TheQuark said...

Wah kya dialog hai
Wah kya dialog hai

Divesh bhai, yadi itni hi bakait kism ki movie hai to ho hi jaye vinzenz main

Hum rikshewalon ki, aage wali, commentbaaaji ki seat tai hai