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I have not yet seen Ghajini, but I am dying to!

In case you have missed my rambling about it, Ghajini is a Bollywood movie that just came out (with crazy collections so far! [livejournal.com profile] filmi_girl said the ticket sales are at 100%) starring Aamir Khan and Asin. He is a businessman who was in love with a woman who was murdered, so now he is tracking down her killer. So far so good, except for the fact that (in a bit of Memento-stolen concept) the attack left him with retrograde amnesia, where he can only remember things after the attack in 15-minute increments (or by writing them down).

To compensate, he angsts shirtlessly and with sexily bulked-up phisique. Go, Aamir! (Also, I just love that his projects are so randomly diverse. Prior to playing a grief-driven killer machine in a violent revenge movie, he was playing a teacher of an autistic kid, and before that a lead in a quintessential star-crossed romance, and before that, he was the lead in a movie that tackled violence and student activism. Love him!)

It's so funny, I've seen some crabby reviewers complain that half the movie develops the love story as they'd clearly rather get to scull-crunching sooner. Not me! I like a balance in those things. I've also seen someone comment that this is an upgraded, modernized take on all those 1970s revenge "Amitabh Bachchan as Vijay" kind of movies, and I love those!

Meanwhile, to tide me over, I have been trolling youtube and found this clip. It's not good quality, but the song is so gorgeous, I don't care!



I am in the minority of not being an automatic huge fan of AR Rahman, but when he gets it right, there is nobody like him -- such gorgeous melody! And, to me, it sounds just a tiny bit 1970ish-influenced, which would be so appropriate.

Date: 2008-12-27 02:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] astrothsknot.livejournal.com
But if you don't build up the romance, then there's not point to the skull-crunching. Even Arnie films knew that...

Date: 2008-12-28 02:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dangermousie.livejournal.com
Yup, exactly...

=> Remember Salaam-E-Ishq?

Date: 2008-12-27 05:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thelana.livejournal.com
You have to check out this Ashu/Tehzeeb fic that was posted on the bolly_fic community. I didn't even like the pairing and I thought it was perfect.

Ghajini... I keep being freaked out because I know the movie it is based on. But then I figure, well, it's Amir. We just know it's gonna be good. He'll take care of that.

Plus that poster just rocks.

Re: => Remember Salaam-E-Ishq?

Date: 2008-12-28 02:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dangermousie.livejournal.com
Thanks for the link! *off to check*

Plus that poster just rocks.


Movie manpain always rocks :)

Date: 2009-01-01 09:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] animeshon.livejournal.com
This is such a beautiful song, and for the love of God, why would you just have her die without feeling anything for her or their relationship. I mean seriously, I need to feel for the characters that they traumatise.

I really want to watch this now :D

Date: 2009-01-03 04:16 am (UTC)

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