Movie: Ghajini
Language:Hindi
People: Aamir Khan,AR Murgadoss,AR Rehman.
Rating: 2.75/5
So Finally I managed to get a decent seat in the theater for Ghajini , yeah it was the same ticket that we got the other day and guess what we were the first ones in the auditorium. About the movie, The combination of two AR's and one AK and one of them didn't do quite so well.
Ghajini is a typical bollywood ishtyle masala flick, boy meets girl, boys falls for her, villian, dishoom dishoom etc. happy ending . It does have a gripping begininng (inspired from Memento) keeps the audience guessing onto what happens next . The comic contribution in the first part of the movie is very much welcome .There was good on screen chemistry between Aamir and Asin, who by the way has done very well for herself in the movie especially during the terror-fight sequence .
Later on Murgadoss has juggled well with the past and the present however he was a bit too repetitive. AR Rehman's music was well, pretty good. So everything seems to be good about this movie then whats wrong? Well to begin with its a bit too lengthy. Last hour of the movie could have easily squeezed into 15 minutes or so. It has only six songs, They seem to be one too many.
May be couple of them could have been just a background score (e.g. Ru Ba Ru )
Movie promos definitely showed that it had more fight sequences than normal, but still even with that mindset the violence in the movie was a bit too much , probably came from Tollywood (I dunno if thats a term , Tamil-ollywood) . Lets face it a bollywood movie cant be remade scene-2-scene and expect it to please the audience in Tollywood, vice versa is also true . Violence in the movie could have been toned down a bit.
The star of the movie is definitely , without a doubt Aamir Khan. To start with he has really worked on his body (18 months or so ... they say) And his eight pack frame is very much seen throughout the film , not just for a song (:P) . Some critics are asking questions as to why did AK do this movie.Well the answer is, he generally does one bollywood masala flick every now and then.In between DCH,RDB,Lagaan,TZP there is one Fanaa. The kind of cinema that Aamir indulges in is what I call divergent cinema ,Its not really parallel cinema . It starts of with commercial mainline movie and diverges off to, what we call as parallel cinema. So I would recommend you to go watch Ghajini without having a mindset that its an Aamir Khan film, you will enjoy it more and If you really want to watch a movie about shaart term memaary lass the get the DVD of Memento from a video library near you.
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Though I don;t suffer from "Shart" term memory loss...the movie has already started fade in my memory... Watching gajani was fun.. as said , a masala flick.
ReplyDeleteFirstly I appreciate directors copying the best scenes from Award winning films.. such as the Blind man and girl helping him (as seen movie Amelie- Oscar award winning French movie). But wht abt originality ? let be bollywood or tollywood.....still the movie scores as its a little off beat in the base than a stereotype hindi flick.
BTW ... the movies had its own *sigh* moments and *WT#* moments also.
- the un-intelligent medic student .. her character is so annoying from the first opening scene itself
- secondly though the actress is cute looking ,, she did a little bit of over acting. But she was bearable.
- the action sequence were nicely choreographed but they couldn't be hidden from the southern ish-style (rajni babu must be smiling)
BTW.. hold on before u judge me as a critic .. I liked the movie , but if someone asked me is it worth spending three hours and 9-10$.. well may be .. if you have to.
Best bet would be get ACT2 put it in microwave .. open a few pints and enjoy it on a DVD at home.. else like all desi's FREE internet movies are there *s*
Sorry for such looooooong rant !