My first movie review of the year, and in a long long time. But first, throw away all those “Memento copycats” protest symbols. Ghajini is NOT Memento. Done! Ghajini is NOT pathbreaking cinema. What Ghajini is ..is Aamir Khan’s full throttle, testosterone-in yo face-combat. Six packs-check! Growl with the triceps shining-check! Tatoos-check! Funky hairdo-check! A.R.Rahman-check! Brilliant movie-meh!
Ghajini could have been so much more, or is it coz I had too many expectations from it. Not because I am a Memento devotee (yes, I call Christopher Nolan the man who made Memento, not Dark Knight), but because I at least expected Ghajini to have some sense of ‘reality’ in it. And if someone did expect me to lock my brains home and then sit down to watch this popcorn muncher of a movie, someone was right. Right when I did try hard to leave all my logic and sense of common (aka common sense), I managed to like the entire experience. It was fun. (After the Jump…My random questions on Ghajini) [Continue Reading…]
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