A R Rahman's music score too has a few chart busters, like ‘Gujarish’ and the excellently choreographed ‘Behka’. ----------------------------- Ghajini (action) Cast : Aamir Khan, Asin, Jiah Khan, Pradeep Rawat Direction : A.R. Murugadoss Critics rating : downshowrating=1
AAMIR Khan always knew the importance of being earnest, ever since his Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak days. Taare Zameen Par saw his zeal taking on new colours. The actor not only made his directorial debut with the film, but also displayed a newfound desire to dabble with meaningful cinema, after attaining a career-high in regular mainstream glitz. With Ghajini , he once again does a U-turn. He waltzes back to the no-holds-barred formula, once again. And he does it with the same earnestness with which he made a Ghulam, a Sarfarosh . Of course, his wounded, battered, bicep-laden, revenge-thirsty Sanjay Singhania of Ghajini is a much more mature and masterly rendition of the familiar action hero of mainstream masala . 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 not only as the action hero, where he brings back old-fashioned physical combat to Bollywood guts and gore, but he impresses as the diffident biz honcho too who is willing to travel in buses and scootys with his buoyant Ms Congeniality. Only because she thinks he's a struggling model who might just be ready to shoot for a ‘chaddi' ad in his desperation. The other place where the film scores is in its narration. Loosely inspired by Christopher Nolan's Memento , the film moves back and forth in time, as it juxtaposes an effervescent romance in the past against a brutalised, spaced-out present. The two time zones criss-cross interestingly, leaving enough suspense to keep the viewer attentive. The film also boasts of a polished act by Asin who makes her debut in Bollywood with a spontaneous rendition of the good Samaritan Mumbai girl who breezes her way through life, with a smile and a helping hand for all and sundry. A R Rahman's music score too has a few chart busters, like ‘Gujarish’ and the excellently choreographed ‘Behka’. So what's the hitch, you might ask. Firstly, the film needs some tighter editing, specially in the fight sequences. Second, it needed a real bad guy who could live up to the eponymous character. Pradeep Rawat as Mr Ghajini, with his white shoes, his gold tooth and his ho-hallah brigade isn't as menacing as the title would like us to believe. And lastly, the heroine's conflict with Mr Ghajini -- the fulcrum of the revenge drama -- just happens out of the blue. Not quite convincing. All in all, Ghajini is a thoroughbred Bollywood film which celebrates the formula with panache. Enjoy the unadulterated desi! http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/moviereview/3887926.cms rate(picmsid); var RN = new String (Math.random()); var RNS = RN.substring (2,11); var b2 = ''; if (doweshowbellyad==1) bellyad.innerHTML = b2;
