Ghajini review
Ghajini (action)
Cast : Aamir Khan, Asin, Jiah Khan, Pradeep Rawat
Direction : A.R. Murugadoss
Critics rating :
AAMIR Khan is a superb actor and director ever since his Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak days. Taare Zameen Par saw his zeal taking on new subjects. The actor not only made his directorial debut with the film, but also displayed a keen desire to dabble with meaningful cinema, after attaining a career-high in regular mainstream glitz. With Ghajini Aamir gets back to the no-holds-barred formula, once again. And he does it with the same zeal he acted in Ghulam or Sarfarosh .
The high point of Ghajini is Aamir Khan’s class act of the hero who switches from a shy, taciturn tycoon who finds love in the alley — with an ekdum ordinary girl — to a vulnerable killing machine who mauls his prey like a wounded tiger. Roars and grunts, included! Aamir has hardly anything to say in the entire film. And yet, he speaks volumes — with his silences, his expressions, his body language, his helplessness, his guttural, anguished shrieks and then his vacant stare again. A man who suffers from short term memory loss must not only remember the horror of his past, but seek out his beloved’s (Asin) killers too and finish them off. Even though, he might just forget what he’s doing while battering them. All he has to help him in his mission are a few scrawls on his body, his walls, his unfinished diaries, his polaroid snapshots, his fading memory cells and a friendly medical student (Jiah Khan). Not much to go by, specially when the bad guys (Pradeep Rawat and co.) choose to erase most of the clues, including his tattoos.
Aamir scores is good as the action hero. The other place where the film scores is in its narration. The film is greatly inspired by Christopher Nolan’s 2002 film Memento. The film also boasts of a polished act by Asin who makes her debut in Bollywood. A R Rahman’s music score too has a few chart busters, like ‘Gujarish’ and the excellently choreographed ‘Behka’.
So if you want a Bollywood masaala adaption of a renowned English film – go and see. It makes sense to see the film in theatre as the effects make more lasting impact due to darkness and sorround soud.
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