The clock just clicked 12:00 am in Houston, Texas and I just returned after driving 40 miles one way to go watch the movie. The ride back from the theatre from I-10W to 288 South was rather quiet, with thoughts flowing with tensed intensity, as tears fogged up the sparkling Christmas lights through the dashboard. Memento had left me feeling disappointed and confused and with a doggie-bag of headache pills. Ghajini satisfied my need for a more focussed theme of 'Revenge' while keeping the psychological thriller alive. In short I was pleased by the way the story line was set in Ghajini except for the intense amount of violence that I did not foresee (my bad tho as I should've guessed with all the body building promos). However, I would not like to discredit the strong emotions being displayed through all the snorting, snarling and screams that portrayed a great paradigm of true frustration.
Revenge has always been a theme of my liking as it magnifies the endurance of the human body when emotions cord with the mind to achieve a single goal. On the whole I enjoyed the movie, I loved Aamir's acting as usual (probably a lot more convincing this time as an action hero). Asin was great and her character truly touched my heart. I personally did love Aamir's Bohemian look in the orange rolled up t-shirt and the purple shirt in the song 'Behka', reminded me a lot of Mark Kanemura from 'So you think you candance'. All in all, I liked the movie, Aamir did a great job, but he does owe me a happy movie now!
Till later ~
Falak Zaffer
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Hey. So, I just saw Ghajini, and I have to disagree w/ you on most points. Probably shows our complete different tastes in movies, but here it goes:
1) Memento was probably one of the few movies that actually excited me throughout the movie. The end was fabulous and so was the plot overall. Having said that, Ghajini was nothing like Memento, except the amnesia.
2) Ghajini was so not an Aamir movie, so I was very disappointed. I did think that they had a few good parts, ones where they get the protagonist constantly beat up. That made sense.
3) I personally thought that there was hardly a theme in the movie. I was so bored in the movie that I was reading a magazine. What was up w/ all those missing ditches throughout the movie? People's clothes changed between shots and faces changed between shots!? I know that its a bollywood movie and one can't expect too much. But, Com'ON! They really treat viewers like morons. Besides, it doesn't help that I see one or two hindi movies every three years. My standards are higher for movies than other people's.
The only good thing that came out of the movie is that probably Aamir will perhaps see it one day when he's done w/ promoting it and decide that it was the last of its kind- that he'd done. :)
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