My opnion about the movie Ghajini

As far as I am concerned, no matter how hyped the movie Ghajini is, I didn’t find the story convincing at all. After coming out of the movie theatre I kept thinking of the loopholes in the storyline and even in the direction of the movie.

To start with, it is shown that Aamir’s character, Sanjay Singhania is being interviewed by a TV channel. It is also said that his articles are published in a financial newspaper, then how come no body ever saw him or recognized him as the business tycoon.

It’s shown that Asin or Kalpana, calls up Sanjay and gets him assignments for advertisements. They are in the same industry and keep meeting regularly. Then how come she never wanted to see any of his ads in newspapers or magazines. She still very much believes that he is a struggling model.

When Kalpana’s firm hosts a New Year party and invites Sanjay as the Chief Guests, pictures are clicked by the press but aren’t they ever published anywhere for the public to see?

When Kalpana travels to Goa for an assignment, she is shown going alone, without any colleague or friend accompanying her. She is travelling in an almost empty, third class train compartment. Very daring I must say.

Once she rescues the group of under-age girls from the crooks on the train, she doesn’t realise that she is getting into some dangerous situation and keeps going to the hospital all alone at the beck and call of the lady constable. She doesn’t feel the need to seek police protection or someone’s company for her safety.

When she is visiting the hospital to find the missing girls, Ghajini himself appears there to give an explanation to her, and then plans to kill her as she now knows the truth. Instead, he could have easily misled her and bribed the police some more to bury the matter, like he was already doing.

When the crooks are shown waiting for Kaplana in her apartment, and the lights go off, she doesn’t realise then that there is a staircase exit in her apartment that leads directly outside.

When the crooks finally nail her down and are waiting for Sanjay in her apartment, the look on Kalpan’s face, when she sees Sanjay in her apartment, should be that of fear. She should be signalling him like crazy to leave the apartment at once as he too is in danger. But she is shown as calm and placid, walking towards him as if nothing has happened.

Coming out of the flashback, when they show Sanjay’s room, there are sentences like ‘find him’, ‘kill him’, and ‘who is Ghanjini’ all over the walls. His manager, doctor and other people close to him visit him there but never think about warning the police of his intentions.

From being a gentleman he suddenly goes on to become a super fighter who can fight a person of any proportion and size. Instead, it would have been a good idea to show him with a confidante, someone who would have known him long, who would have trained him and helped him remember the sequence of events every time he forgot something. This would have been similar to what was shown in earlier movies like ‘First 50 dates’, which dealt with a similar medical problem. I think showing Jiah Khan as an accomplice comes too late in the movie.

The next striking thing is that the police officer who comes to nab Sanjay while investigating a murder case is the only brave and honest police officer in the city. No one ever follows up with the investigation later or shows any interest in Sanjay’ whereabouts thereafter. When Sanjay is later found in the medical college lift and is taken into custody by the police, no one is alarmed over the things written on his body. They accept the story of Ghajini being a friend of his and leave him without any further clarification about his intentions of finding and killing someone.

Jiah Khan’s character has again been shown as extremely brave. She goes with Sanjay’s to help him find and kill Ghajini although she knows that the place they are going to might be dangerous.

All these loopholes in the story make Ghaniji a disappointing movie. It is not as convincing or flawless as Lagan, Rang de basanti, or Taare Zameen Par. It’s another disappointing movie from Aamir like Fanaa. The only good things about the movie were Aamir’s body, and his and Aasin’s acting.