What was Aamir thinking while doing Ghajini?
Or did he got too much into the character to forget what exactly he was supposed to do?
The body was there, the hype was there, everything was apparently in the right place for Ghajini to be that extraordinary action movie we all have been waiting for ages. Aamir Khan in a never seen before action role of a lifetime. I mean, who would want to miss that on a big screen ? Actually after seeing it, I gladly would have :(
To make a long (n boring) story short, Aamir was a Top Exec. of a mobile company at one point of time (he actually is throughout the movie, but doesn't act later on), falls in love with a seemingly simple hearted Asin (a aspiring, Hamam to Khaaj Khujli wali Model). But as fate would have it, the simple helping nature of Asin lands her into trouble with the man himself GHAJINI !! Apna Ghajini is nothing short of a MD of a big pharma company himself. And he is such a hands on boss, that he ensures that every murder is done by his "shubh haathon". As luck would have it, the girl has known too much about Ghajini uncle (just imagine the scores of people who must have already seen him execute so many others) and she has to die. In trying to save his beloved, Aamir also gets slammed by a Iron something (looked like a iron bat) but manages to save his skull (& his life), gets a discount and scrapes with two scratches on his head, no hair growth for 6 months and a new phenomena .... SHORT TERM MEMORY LOSS. Ok, so finally by hook or crook finally he is able to replicate the same golfing action shot of hitting the skull of Mr. Ghajini and take his revenge. His hair grows again, he sees his love of life again and somehow his memory is beginning to come back.
Well, one could have guessed how Ghajini would have been seeing the posters of the movie. Aamir Khan, all muscled up, staring in one picture and putting his hands on his head in another. An indication by the great Khan, that it could not have messed any further than this (not even Mela would come close). Lets see what did not work for me in this movie ...
1. Was Aamir a patient of memory loss or had he lost it completely? I mean why was he shouting so violently when he wanted revenge?
2. Does getting hit on head means extra bout of energy and loads of muscles ? OK, I get the part wherein he develops the muscles, but that high amount of energy to hit ones face and find it turned around 360 degrees, too hilarious !!
3. MD of a big mobile company, MD who is hip hopping the globe, giving interview to CNN in his lavish corporate setting writes a daily dairy in hindi, manages to find time to take around apni Asin, have pani puri & pay with a credit card, "chitter - chatter" about ads of "chaddis & khaaj khujli creams" & smile around quite stupidly.
4. GHAJINI (the man himself) goes around in every frame with loads of goons & guns. And finally when in the climax, when our Aamir goes to kill him, he manages to run out of every single gun in his area. Also, where in case of others all it took Aamir to settle score was a punch or a kick, in case of Ghajini, lot of hitting ensured he did not get killed. The climax was a RAJNI hitting GHAJINI.
5. Finally, I really cannot make out in which genre the film should fall under. It tried to be a horrorific, gruesome, action, drama, comedy movie of our time (in short a complete mess !).
The overenthusiatic camera work, the loud background score, the long stretch .... phew.
The only thing I would like to take home would the wardrobe (& the abs if possible) of Aamir Khan. All other things sucked !!
Watch it, at your headache.
