Ghajni: Aamir inspired by Jason Statham?

Aamir inspired by Jason Statham?

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The original South Indian hit was however based on Memento, a Hollywood film starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Ann Moss in lead roles. ‘Memento’ tells the story of a man named Leonard who is searching for the killer of his wife. However, he suffers from amnesia, and now has to find the killer using his limited memory. Thus he zeroes down on his wife’s killer by keeping notes, taking photographs and making tattoos on his body to remember things.

We have seen the umpteen tattoos on Aamir’s body already and the Surya-like hairdo that he sports. However as far as Aamir’s body and eight packs is concerned, the actor also seems to have been inspired by Hollywood actor Jason Statham.

English actor Jason Statham is also known for his eight packs and crew haircut which Aamir is sporting off late! The actor is also famous for doing gangster films like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Revolver and Snatch. He was also seen in Death Race and The Transporter series. The resemblance between the two actors’ muscular bodies and look is too uncanny!

A close friend of Aamir revealed, “According to Aamir, Ghajini is not a remake of Memento and as far as his newly found muscular body is concerned, he has put in a lot of effort. He is a perfectionist and he might have been inspired by Statham as he likes to watch these Hollywood films and attain their kind of perfection. But only he will be able to clarify if Statham is his inspiration.”

All we have to say is Jason looks simply superb rendering those action scenes and we are sure our Aamir will be no less.

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Ghajini Movie Review

The wait is finally over! An Aamir Khan film is nothing short of an event. The supremely talented actor acts in one film a year and no two films are ever identical in terms of plotline. No wonder then that you await an Aamir starrer with bated breath.

GHAJINI, the Tamil version, has been a massive hit and so was its dubbed Telugu version. Will the Hindi adaptation live up to the humungous expectations? The hype is unmatched and you expect no less than a present-day masterpiece.

Now the good news: GHAJINI demonstrates how strong film-making can enhance and elevate an already solid concept.

GHAJINI is a revenge saga, one ingredient that has been the staple diet of Hindi films since time immemorial. It is a powerful film. It has the power to sweep you off your feet from the word 'go'. It has a riveting story, which has been told with flourish by director A.R. Murugadoss. And, of course, it has a knockout performance by Aamir Khan. If at all there's a shred of doubt whether Aamir is The Best in the business, all you've got to do is check out GHAJINI.

Flaws any? Running time [almost 3 hours]? Not at all! There's so much happening in every scene and the screenplay is so gripping that you don't feel the need to look at the auditorium ceiling or at your watch at brief intervals. You aren't restless. As moviegoers, we've watched countless good versus evil fares over the years and although GHAJINI belongs to the same family, not once does it take the beaten track. The story has been told differently and most importantly, the story offers so many twists-n-turns that you just can't guess what would unfold next.

Is it violent? It is, at times, but the violence here is justified. In fact, every time the protagonist bashes up the evil-doers, you clap and root for him. The climax is jaw-dropping -- dissimilar from the original, but it's an out of the world experience nonetheless.

To sum up, GHAJINI is commercial Hindi cinema at its best. The film has 'Hit' written all over it. Let me put it this way: Cancel whatever you're doing today and go watch GHAJINI instead.

Aamir Khan is suffering from acute short-term memory loss set off by the violent murder of his girlfriend Asin. He's got to work around this handicap, but with methodical and meticulous determination. Aamir etches a path of clues that lead him on his road.

To aid him in his quest, he carries around a sheaf of Polaroids and when he is really sure of a piece of information, he has it tattooed on his body, which stands in for the damaged part of his mind. His indelibly marked torso is the repository of his grief, his rage and his reason to go on living.

Any more revelation would do gross injustice to the film and to its viewer.

First things first! GHAJINI is not MEMENTO. There're minor similarities, but GHAJINI takes a completely different route to tell its story. Director A.R. Murugadoss tells this one differently. It starts off with what happens in the past, comes to the present-day, goes back in time again and returns to the contemporary again. This is a breathless, exciting story, heart-breaking and exhilarating at the same time.

Hindi movies have often depicted people suffering from amnesia/memory loss, but GHAJINI is poles apart because the protagonist recalls events only for 15 minutes. The story is its USP, without a doubt. But what adds sheen and glory to the story is Aamir's portrayal of a man suffering from short-term memory loss. Aamir hardly speaks. In fact, the leading lady [Asin] speaks more than Aamir in the film. But Aamir speaks volumes with his eyes, he conveys whatever has to be conveyed through his body language, he says it all with his facial expressions and that only makes GHAJINI a memorable, never-seen-before experience.

Director A.R. Murugadoss deserves brownie points for not just coming up with an interesting story, but also presenting it [refreshingly] differently. The storyteller balances the light moments and the ones demanding intensity with expertise. There's dum in every sequence. Even if the director has to depict violence, he doesn't resort to blood-n-gore or knives-swords-pistols for effect.

A.R. Rahman's music is top notch. At least three numbers have the unmistakable stamp of a genius -- 'Guzarish', 'Behka' and 'Kaise Mujhe'. Ravi Chandran's cinematography is stunning. The film bears a stylish look all through. The action sequences are brilliantly executed. The Hindi moviegoers haven't seen such scenes ever.

Aamir delivers his career-best performance. In the first place, it requires courage and maturity to name the film after the villain. Knowing how egoistic our stars are, something like this is next to impossible in Hindi films.
A lot has been said and written about the GHAJINI look -- Aamir's hairstyle and his dream physique. It's awe-inspiring and if more and more people adopt the 'Aamir look' or hit the gym, it would be courtesy the actor.
As far as his acting is concerned, he's natural as the tycoon, but like a wounded, ferocious tiger when he goes on an avenging spree.
Without doubt, it's a concentrated, layered performance. He acts with his entire being. His body movement, the details of his performance, everything rings true. He is both vulnerable and hard. The pain in his face when he can't remember, is palpable. It's not only the plot that carries GHAJINI. It's also the mood and the expression on Aamir's face that makes GHAJINI a treat.

Asin is fabulous. To share the screen space with an actor of the stature of Aamir Khan and yet remain in your memory even after the show has ended is no cakewalk. She looks fresh and photogenic and acts her part brilliantly. Pradeep Rawat, the villain, is first-rate. Jiah Khan impresses, especially in the sequence when Aamir follows her to a shopping mall.

On the whole, GHAJINI is a winner all the way. The film will set new records and has the merits to emerge one of the biggest Hits of all times. The weekend business should be historic, the Week 1 business should be unparalleled, the lifetime gross should be amongst the biggest of all times. In short, GHAJINI has 'Blockbuster' written all over it.



bron: indiafm.com

maar liefst 4,5 sterren.. dat komt niet vaak voor
ben nu wel erg benieuwd!

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Ghajini Review - Aamir Khan Disappoints in Stolen

In these hard economic times, if your 2009 New Year Resolution is to cut back on wasteful spending and save money for the rainy days ahead, we suggest you start in the fading days of 2008 by skipping this piece of stolen junk called Ghajini.

Yes, the Hindi Ghajini is the same stolen piece of @#$%& that director and thieving swine A.R.Murugadoss palmed off as his creation in its Tamil predecessor.

Many of the similarities we pointed out in the Tamil version between Ghajini and the Hollywood classic Memento are to be found in the Hindi version as well. We won’t refer to the similarities again here but you may see the list of copied scenes here


The Hindi Ghajini’s story here hews mostly to the Tamil Ghajini, which Murugadoss stole from Memento.

A young man Sanjay Singhania (Aamir Khan) develops an unusual condition of being unable to form new memories for longer than 15 minutes because of a violent blow to his head in a brutal attack that also led to the death of his girlfriend Kalpana (Asin).

Like Leonard Shelby in Memento, the young man Sanjay is now consumed by revenge and uses an elaborate system of tattoos on his body, notes and photographs to go about his day-to-day life.
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Aamir Khan Disappoints
While Ghajini is a crude piece of @#$%& compared to the masterpiece Memento, the bigger disappointment here is Aamir Khan’s mediocre performance. Hey, we’ll go as far as saying that Surya did a superior job in the Tamil Ghajini.

With his torturous overacting in frame after frame, Aamir Khan left us in a fury of frustration and brought back unwelcome memories of yesteryear Tamil actor Sivaji Ganesan, who was guilty of the same offense in most of his movies.

Whether in the stunt scenes as he bashes up more than a dozen guys or the romantic song/dance scenes or when he first tells Kalpana in the bus that he loves her or when he screams in the hospital as he peruses his diary, Aamir Khan flounders and flounders and flounders.

In contrast, Surya in the Tamil version was far more effective in the pre-violent attack scenes with his bemused expression as Kalpana spins a big yarn about the big businessman Sanjay Ramasamy being smitten with her.

When Aamir Khan gets angry in Ghajini, it’s with the ugly intensity of a neanderthal; when he smiles in romantic scenes with his teeth showing and lower lips bent inwards, it’s with the deportment of a retard; when he sings/dances, he excites as much interest as the blind singer on Indian railway platforms.

In short, Aamir Khan is painful to behold in Ghajini; And even more painful when we consider that we are shelling out mucho moolah to see this kinda nonsense.

In not one scene did we see Aamir Khan do more than go through the motions of acting.

Asin - Same Tormentor
Asin is the same beastly tormentor in the Hindi version of Ghajini version. To waste any space on this bimbette would be a waste of our time and yours. If you are in a masochistic mood, you may see the lengthy list of her inadequacies here.

Jiah Khan
Compared to that hideous monster Nayantara in the Tamil version, Jiah Khan did a reasonable job as the medical student getting involved in the male protagonist’s life because of her interest in short-term memory issues.

Other Stuff
Pradeep Rawat has done a better job as the villain in the Hindi version. Also, the final fight scene was not as horrendously crude as in the Tamil film with the twin villains.

With tighter editing, the 3-hour movie could have been cut short by about 20-25 minutes.

Music
Although music in Ghajini is above average, the picturization of all the songs were below par. Our favorite songs were Behka and Hai Guzarish.

Safe to Skip Ghajini
As we said at the outset, in these hard economic times to waste money on a stolen stinker like Ghajini is a sin.

If you are looking for entertainment this holiday season, rent Memento from your local video library. Why watch bad stolen copies like Ghajini when you can watch the original (if you live in the U.S, we strongly recommend Slumdog Millionaire).

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Ghajini: Such fuss over THIS?

Cast: Aamir Khan, Jiah Khan, Asin, Pradeep Rawat
Director: A R Murugadoss
Rating: 2/5

Ghajini is a second rate movie.
It is also too long. If you're an Aamir Khan groupie it might not be entirely intolerable - but it will be disappointing. Ghajini has the look and feel of a Tamil film. That is to say it is loud and obvious, and a couple of notches under Bollywood, in terms of technique and finish. It is what Bollywood was in the 1980s before SRK and Aamir pulled it out.

Aamir looks buffed and ripped in the scene where he shows us his muscles. But he's a shorty with a sweet face, and so his body is not threatening. Imagine Rishi Kapoor with a six pack. Asin is pleasant but not charismatic. Her face whizzes past you, like those of girls in washing machine ads playing impossibly young mothers. Kareena and Katrina are under no threat from her.

The plot of Ghajini is simple: boy meets girl, villain kills girl, boy kills villain. There is no twist, no suspense and no mystery - except for what Ghajini means (Mahmud Ghazni, perhaps?). You know where the movie is going and you want it to move along. But director Murugadoss is determined to give you your money's worth, and he understands that to mean more reels.

Ghajini is over three hours long, its length coming from many scenes and many characters sellotaped on the script. Here's how it goes.

Aamir Khan owns a cellphone company and falls in love with Asin, who is a model. She doesn't know he's rich till she dies, demonstrating that her love is pure and undiluted by his millions - but leaving the viewer, who wants to see the chick's reaction when she finds out, unresolved.

Asin's is a Mother Teresa figure, relentlessly helping the blind cross the road, and the crippled cross the gate, with the earnestness of a Miss Universe finalist. Her sally into more dangerous messianic adventure (rescuing 25 girls who have their kidneys sold AND are shipped to a brothel) gets her killed by the villain, Ghajini, played by Pradeep Rawat, who is ugly, but not brutish, and who threatens Aamir by saying: "Saale!". More effectively, Rawat also bashes Aamir on the head, causing him to enter a medical condition, one that most men will be familiar with, called Short Term Memory Loss. This means he keeps forgetting. For reasons of vengeance, he forces himself to remember through means like tattooing numbers and names on his body, constantly taking Polaroid pictures to place people, and labeling things around his house. This is the bit that Murugadoss has lifted cleanly from the movie Memento.

Like Sisyphus, Aamir's quest never ends. He must return to full rage over and over again, every 15 minutes. What must that be like? We don't know.

Aamir is first hindered and then helped by medical student Jiah Khan (excellent body, zero personality). His birthdate is shown on her records as April 26, 1975, making him ten years younger than he actually (March 14, 1965) is. He does look a credible 33; how he'll pull off a college student in his next movie 3 Idiots will be interesting.

Ghajini has parallel narratives: the love story, shown in flashback, and the revenge story, which moves forward with every man Aamir kills. The action scenes are unsatisfying. They have been crafted by a man who has clearly never been in a fight, and has only seen one in Tamil movies. The Bombay police play their part: arresting Aamir for breaking into a women's hostel, but failing to notice that he's killing people, including a particularly irritating cop, around the city.

Rahman's music is rubbish and there is not a line of melody in the movie. Murugadoss would be entitled to a refund. Ghajini will appeal to those who like movies like Gadar, and the early work of Akshay Kumar.

Those who are observant (Aamir Khan is left-handed) will find the movie irritating. The problem is: Aamir's done a really good job... in promoting the movie.

You REALLY want to see it, don't you?

Fine. But not on the weekend when the tickets are expensive.

Movie Review: Ghajini - indya.com

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Ghajini: Movie Review INDIATIMES MOVIES 2/5
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25 Dec, 2008 12:23 am ISTlGaurav Malani

The length could surely have been trimmed for the extra runtime doesn't add to the conviction like in a Lagaan or a Jodhaa Akbar. A R Rahman's music is melodious and songs are choreographed with typical South Indian flamboyancy. Strangely the background theme piece sounds like Sare Jahan Se Acha.

Aamir is not bad but one expects more from the actor than Rajnikant style amplified-action sequences or anger bouts reminiscent of a hysterical Kamal Hassan from Abhay. Asin is pleasing and Jiah Khan is decent. Pradeep Rawat hams in the title role.

If you are expecting an intelligent psychological suspense thriller, watch Memento. If you are looking for an intense desi action masala watch the Tamil Ghajini. For the Hindi version doesn't show much difference other than trimming the twin villain from the original into a single baddie. By now we are prone to digesting the exaggerated action in south cinema. It would still take some time to accept Aamir Khan doing the same. Rather, the question in first place is, would we ever want to accept Aamir in such avatar?

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Ghajini Movie Review-Forgive & Forget
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The film Aamir Khan should erase from his memory

"Aiyyo, I just watched a Madrasi film with Aamir Khan in it!" That was my first reaction as I stepped out of the theatre.(....)

When Aamir removes his shirt in the beginning, The ***** went, ‘Ooh la la‘. The Lilliput actor has worked very hard to flex his muscles and how!

He struts around like a peacock and roars like a lion. I was wondering which hybrid species is he?

At times in the film he gets so violent with destructive rage that I saw absolutely no reason why we should not put him in a King Kong costume in search of his lady love. Poor beast!

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Lessons to be learned from the film.

Heroines with silky shampoo hair toss and turn and look over their shoulders a lot, especially at the hero, and they sometimes wink for love. Wink wink, nudge nudge.

Villains are to be killed exactly the same way they killed the hero‘s sweetheart. Yaad dila dila ke maro. Somebody‘s gotta pay!

Bollywood actors migrating to a South Indian film set up will have to wear weird combination of technicolor clothes for song sequences. If they want to style themselves like Yash Birla, nothing like it. Super!

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The hero is so lethal that even when you drive a rod into his stomach, he will last for another 15 minutes, fighting till his short term memory lasts!

Aamir Khan has lightened up as an actor over the years. He‘s no more into histrionics a la Bhuvan or Mangal Pandey. Has little to speak in the film, more to growl and grunt and huff and pant.

Jiah Khan has a lot of running to do with him.

Asin is how all girls in South Indian romance films are. Extra peppy and exuberant and with a pony tail to wag the dog.

This review is 15 minutes too long. I forgot I had to end. Memory lapse.

Watch it for the heck of a revenge saga.

Songs are bad, picturisation is flat, there‘s more man-cleavage than woman undressed. There is no acting or dialogues to speak of. The film is in the action and editing details which keeps you engaged since you cannot escape.

But before I end, here‘s the spoiler. In the end you‘ll feel as if ‘Taare Zameen Par‘ is about to start. Strange, ask Aamir, he‘s the one who‘s lost it...his ability to think ahead.

http://www.bombay*****.com/site/ghaj...give___forget/

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Gewoon een te erge film, en zeker aan te raden...!

gajni vind ik nou echt een masterpiece! woow!

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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Raay

gajni vind ik nou echt een masterpiece! woow!

Echt he! Serieus de beste film van 2008! Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi vervaagt letterlijk bij Ghajini! Na zo een lange tijd een enorm goed in elkaar geweven film van drama, actie, romantiek en humor, all at the same time! Voor Aamir heb ik geen woorden, die gozer is gewoon beyond!

Asin is de nieuwe ster, die gaat het gewoon maken! Heb zo gelachen en tegelijkertijd gehuild om haar! Eindelijk weer een actrice van wie ik denk, jij hebt talent! Jiah dr rol kon eigennlijk geschrapt worden, vind haar al helemaal niet aantrekkelijk, wel zonde.....

Ik raad deze film echt aan!

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zeer goede film!
een goed sterk verhaal en goede performances van de acteurs
Aamir Khan stal zoals wel vaker de show.. met zo weinig woorden heeft hij zoveel kunnen zeggen.. zijn gezichtsuitdrukkingen en emoties waren werkelijk van een ander niveau
Asin zeker een in potentie rijzende ster.. wil haar alleen nog in een andere film zien.. aangezien ze deze rol al eerder heeft vertolkt