Ghajini (2008-movie) : Bollywood Hindi Film

Ghajini Movie Details :

Ghajini Movie is an 2008 Bollywood Hindi film, It’s writter and directer are A. R. Murugadoss, with a climax co-writter Aamir Khan,and producer are Allu Aravind, Tagore Madhu and Madhu Mantena. the film starring are Aamir Khan, Asin, Jiah Khan and Pradeep Rawat in Main roles.with Tinnu Anand, Sunil Grover, Khalid Siddiqui and Riyaz Khan in supporting roles. The score and soundtrack were composer is A. R. Rahman, while Aamir co-wrote an altered climax.

Set in Mumbai, Ghajini follows the story of Sanjay Singhania, a businessman who develops anterograde amnesia following a violent encounter in which his love interest, a model named Kalpana, was killed. He tries to avenge the murder, committed by the eponymous gangster-turned-public figure, with the aid of photographs from a Polaroid Instant camera and permanent tattoos on his body.

Ghajini became the highest-grossing Indian film of 2008, and the first Bollywood film to cross the 100 crore mark domestically, creating the 100 Crore Club. Ghajini’s paid preview collections were 27 million. On release, it became the highest-grossing Indian film of all time, until it was surpassed by Aamir’s next, 3 idiots (2009), the following year. Aamir’s character was featured in a 3D video game titled Ghajini – The Game, which is based on the film.

• Directer : A. R. Murugadoss
• Producer : Allu Aravind,Tagore Madhu,Madhu Mantena
• Writter : Piyush Mishra
• Screenplay : A. R. Murugadoss,Aamir Khan
• Story : A. R. Murugadoss
• Starring : Aamir Khan,Asin,Jiah Khan
• Music : A. R. Rahman
• Cinematography : Ravi K. Chandran
• Editer : Anthony
• Production Design : Sunil Babu
• Art Direction : Sunil Babu,Samir Chanda,Vaishnavi Reddy
• Set Decoration : Mukul Saraogi
• Costume Design : Arjun Bhasin,Uma Biju
• Makeup Department : Walter Dorairaj
• Production Management : Ravi Barnabas,Mashkoor Chowdhry,Pooja Gupta,Nagesh Pujari,Akhilesh Yadav
• Special Effects : Prasad Patel,Rana Shyamlal
• Visual Effects : Vikas Agarwal,Ritesh Aggarwal,Shrinath Agrawal,Faheem Ahmed,Swapnil Ambre
• Actioon Directer : Peter Hein,Sanober Pardiwalla,Stun Shiva
• Production company : Geetha Arts
• Distributer : Reliance Entertainment,Showman Pictures
• Genres : Action,Drama,Mystery,Thriller
• Release date : 25 December 2008
• Running time : 180 minutes
• Country : India
• Language : Hindi

Star Cast of The Film :

• Aamir Khan as a Sanjay Singhania / Sachin
• Asin Thottumkal as a Kalpana Shetty (as Asin)
• Jiah Khan as a Sunita
• Pradeep Singh Rawat as a Ghajini Dharmatma (as Pradeep Rawat)
• Tinnu Anand as a Satveer Kohli
• Riyaz Khan as a Inspector Arjun Yadav
• Asif Ahmed
• John Cardiel
• Vibha Chhibber as a Havaldar Vijyanti
• Neville Dadachanji as a Mr. Mehta
• Salim Fatehi as a Aamir’s bodyguard
• Mahendra Gole
• Sunil Grover as a Sampat / Sanjay Singhania
• Simon Hewitt
• Kiran Deep Jagi
• Raj Jamdade
• Firdausi Jussawalla as a Firdaush Jussawala
• Mugdha Kalra
• Abhishek Khanna
• Vaibhav Mathur
• Kapil Mehta
• Rahul Pendkalkar
• Anjum Rajabali as a Dr. Debkumar Mitra
• Sopreet Redot
• Sonal Sehgal as a Sonal – Model
• Fayaz Ahmed Shah
• Khalid Siddiqui as a Manager – Air Voice
• Viniishaa Siingh as a Child
• Dharmendra Singh
• Jitendra Singh
• Vinusha Singh
• Sai Tamhankar as a Sunita’s friend
• Taufiq
• Nidhi Tuli
• Vikraal Vij
• Kunal Vijaykar as a Mayapuri Journalist
• Yusuf as a Man who picks up fight with Sanjay in the mall

Story of The Film :

Medical student, Sunita, is driven by curiosity to study the case of Sanjay Singhania, who is afflicted with short-term memory loss. She runs into him, befriends him, and finds out that he is out to kill a seemingly benevolent citizen, Ghajini Dharmatma. After warning the latter of the impending danger, she subsequently comes across a number of diaries written by Sanjay and attempts to put together a jigsaw puzzle as to how a successful and wealthy businessman became a crazed recluse, who re-lives his past through tattoos on his body, notes and Polaroid photographs on the wall of his Hiranandani Complex flat, and his sole obsession of carrying out his deadly mission – little knowing that Ghajini and his goons are out to erase every bit of evidence he has gathered and thus ensure that he ends up remembering nothing.

Ghajini Movie Production Detail :

It was rumoured earlier that the film was titled Kajri. It is a remake of the Tamil film, Ghajini (2005). Aamir Khan, who had never before made a remake film in his career, was initially hesitant to do the film, but was convinced by Suriya, the original star of the Tamil Ghajini, who told him he was “the only one who could do justice to the character.” Suriya was a fan of Khan, and had some involvement in the film’s development, discussing minute details with Khan for two years during the film’s development. Priyanka Chopra was offered a lead role in the film, but turned down the part because of scheduling conflicts.

Khan was involved in the film’s creative writing process, deciding what should remain from the original Tamil Ghajini and what changes should be made. Murugadoss revealed that the altered climax of the film was rewritten by Khan. According to Murugadoss:

We didn’t make too many changes in the rest of the film. Every time I’d suggest a change in Ghajini from the original, Aamir would firmly cut it down, saying we should stick to the Tamil script. But he decided we should rewrite the climax. The entire location, incidents and dialogues for the climax were re-written by Aamir. I think the Hindi version is far better than the Tamil Ghajini because of the changes Aamir made.

Influences :

Murdagoss’s original 2005 Tamil version of Ghajini was inspired by the American film Memento (2000), which itself was adapted from the short story Memento Mori. The film stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a former insurance fraud investigator searching for the man he believes raped and killed his wife during a burglary. Leonard suffers from anterograde amnesia, which he contracted from severe head trauma during the attack on his wife. Certain concepts like writing notes behind instant Polaroid photographs and tattooing facts on his body are also similar. According to Khan, “Ghajini is not a remake or even slightly inspired by Memento, but rather a remake of the Tamil film, Ghajini”. However, he acknowledged that Murgadoss’s original Tamil film was at least partly inspired by Memento, stating, “Murgadoss had heard about a film called Memento and the concept had really fascinated him. Without having seen the film he went ahead and wrote his own version of the script and screenplay. Having finished his script, he then saw Memento, found it very different from what he had written, and went ahead and made Ghajini.” Christopher Nolan was later made aware that an Indian film with a plot similar to Memento was released.

The CGI opening brain sequence was inspired by the 1999 film Fight Club by David Fincher. This sequence was also used in the Tamil version of the film.

The film’s title is a reference to Mahmud of Ghazni, the tenth-century Sultan of Ghaznavid Empire whose name is pronounced “Ghajini” in Tamil. Several comical scenes in the film are similar to Happy Go Lovely (1951). The scene where Kalpana (Asin Thottumkal) helps a blind man to cross the road is similar to the French film Amélie.

Film Shooting :

Shooting started in Chennai in May 2007. Climax was shot in Old City, Hyderabad. Other film shooting locations included Bangalore, Cape Town, Deadpan Desert and Mumbai. Aamir Khan had spent a year working out at the gym, training for his role. This film marked the Bollywood debut for Asin. The film’s production budget was 65 crore (equivalent to 146 crore in 2019).

Release :

Ghajini was released on 25 December 2008 with an estimated 1,500 prints worldwide, including 1,200 prints in the domestic market, making it the largest Bollywood release at that time. The domestic rights were sold to Geetha Arts for 530 million, while satellite, overseas and home media rights were sold at a total of 400 million, breaking the records of Shah Rukh Khan’s film Om Shanti Om’s 730 million.

The overseas distributors, Reliance Entertainment released the film with 300 prints in 22 countries, including 112 prints in the US and Canada, 65 prints in the UK and 36 prints in the UAE. Ghajini was also released in Norway, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore. It had around 650 paid previews which fetched it around 70 million.

Ghajini Movie Songs / Music :

The film has six songs, including two remixes, composed by A. R. Rahman and with lyrics penned by Prasoon Joshi.

• “Aye Bacchu” – Suzanne D’Mello
• “Behka” – Karthik
• “Guzaarish” – Javed Ali and Sonu Nigam (humming)
• “Latoo” – Shreya Ghoshal
• “Kaise Mujhe” – Benny Dayal and Shreya Ghoshal
• “Behka Remix” – Karthik
• “Guzaarish Remix” – Javed Ali and Sonu Nigam (humming)
• “Kaise Mujhe” – Instrumental

“Guzaarish” Full Video Song :

• Singer – Javed Ali, Sonu Nigam
• Lyricist – Prasoon Joshi
• Music Director – A.R. Rahman
• Music On – T-Series

“Kaise Mujhe” Full Video Song :

• Singer – Benny Dayal, Shreya Ghosal
• Lyricist – Prasoon Joshi
• Music – A.R. Rahman
• Music On – T-Series

Ghajini Movie Review :

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 7.3 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 55,956.

This may be the most entertaining thing I have ever seen in a theater. It is apparently loosely based (via another movie) on Christopher Nolan’s “Memento”, and while I enjoyed that, this is far, far more fun to watch.

Frankly, I feel like people always give away too much plot in these IMDb reviews, so all I will say is that this movie involves memory, love and some almost superhuman fight scenes.

I couldn’t help but have the feeling that if Hitchcock was directing movies today, they’d be like this. This is pretty much our very own “Rear Window” in terms of being so completely entertaining while also being amazingly well made.

Critics Rating  by Taran Adarsh, from Bollywood Hungama give 4.5 star out of 5 Star.

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