Imagine ‘Mr India’ was not ‘Mr India’ but ‘Mogambo’. Or ‘Sholay’ was ‘Gabbar’. Can’t understand? Watch Ghajini, as it is named after its villain. While you watch it to find out who Ghajini is? You will find Sanjay Singhania (Aamir) doing the same. Yes, this versatile bad man Ghajini (Pradeep Rawat) killed his girlfriend Kalpana (Asin) and spoiled his life by making him a patient of short-term memory loss. Ghajini is versatile because he owns a pharma company, funds a medical college, speaks Hindi in Haryanvi accent and also forces girls to prostitution. Sanjay does not even remember his face and has a memory, which lasts only for 15 minutes. He remembers things by photos and tattoos. When Ghajini finds that someone wants to kill him, he (unlike a Bollywood villain) erases Sanjay’s memory maps. Sanjay becomes helpless but finds help from unexpected corners. Sunita (Jiah Khan) who is a medical college student becomes his memory and then Khel Khallas.There is one mentionable thing here. The movie is directed by a south Indian director-- A R Murugadoss. All those who enjoy movies from south (like the writer himself) will love it. Every thing songs, outfits, dances and not to forget the action sequences have a south Indian tadka. Not all songs are good. Music and lyric disappoint in some songs while the others may linger in your memory for long. Back ground music may give you headache if you are not familiar to the jhap-jhup (which we generally hear in television s
oaps). Over all, it was a commercial masala directed well by a south Indian director with superb acting and action from Aamir and Asin as the surprise pakage. Asin acted well in her Bollywood debut. She looked cute and chirpy. Aamir played both the business tycoon and afterwards maniacal short- term memory loss patient very well. He proved that he can look dangerous too. Jiah Khan looked better in Nishabd but acted better in Ghajini.The speed with which the film travels varies. It travels faster in the beginning, looses speed becomes slow and just when it was about to stop it accelerates till the end. Despite flaws it entertains.
