My review of Ghajini isn’t exactly a review. I am just highlighting the good and the bad points of it. If you don’t mind spoilers, read on.
Good points-Aamir’s new look. He certainly deserves an applause for the muscles and the eight pack abs.
-Asin, who has entered Bollywood to gives the dominating heroines a tough time, with her performance.
-A. R. Rahman. Guzarish and Kaise Mujhe were marvellous.
-Nice first half of the film.
Bad points- Horrible camerawork at some scenes. Example- there’s a scene where Asin’s character, surrounded by bad guys is trapped in a train’s compartment and opens a door behind her which leads to a whole bunch of army men. They rush at the bad guys, leaping over the seats and pushing each other. This scene is shown in fast forward, which makes it hilarious.
Plotholes. Example- Asin’s character is trapped inside her apartment from danger of Goons. Sanjay(Aamir Khan) goes to her residence to meet her, totally unaccompanied(Not even a driver!). In the film, he is the head of Voicemail, or Airmail(I can’t remember) or in simpler words, a VIP. You can see the absurdness.
Action scene at the end-Sanjay goes to Ghajini’s hideout and bashes more than forty well built and some armed men. Yet when he meets thin Ghajini, he finds himself struggling. And he can’t struggle to bet a man half his size, even after bashing the baddies(Well, he seemed to just touch them.)
I have said so much and I don’t intend to waste my reader’s time, so to sum the film in a nutshell-
Watch it if you like Bollywood masala films, with good triumphing over evil etc. Don’t take the kids with you, and don’t expect the present Aamir to act nicely; he looks at his tattoo- KALPANA WAS KILLED- or any other memorabilia from the past, and starts growling.
P.S. Watch it on the tv, or wait for the DVD. Just don’t waste your hard earned money by going to the theater.