Ghajini - Review

A very strong script, superb actions sequences, brilliant acting by Asin, and with all the right ingredients of a sci-fi thriller makes Ghajini a sure shot commercial success. Surely Surya is the next superhero in making. Though am not a regular Tamil moviegoer, the reviews I heard from friends and from MSM (mainstream media) made me go watch the movie.

A.R. Murugadoss' brilliant piece of direction is seen throughout the movie, without a single hitch in the storyline. The story is about a multi-billionaire named Sanjay Ramaswamy (Surya) who has a successful mobile phone company in Chennai (Air Wave Cellular or something). Asin (don't remember her screen name) is a small-time model who acts in advertisements for a living. A small lie made by Asin to get a boost in her career sets the tone of the movie, where Surya and Asin meets. The rest is an off-the-mill love story. But when Asin saves a bunch of teenaged girls from local goondas, all hell breaks lose.

Asin is killed by the gangsters and Surya is hit in his head by an iron rod which makes him forget his past every 15 minutes a.k.a a patient of "short term memory loss" (Amnesia could have been a better term). The movie is all about how he is taking revenge on the antagonists. Though it's a take off from the Hollywood movie Memento, AR Murugadoss has changed the screenplay a little to suite South Indian viewers.

The surprise package of the movie was Asin's brilliant acting. I've seen her in her first ever movie a few years back in Malayalam (Narendran Makan...), but never thought she was such a brilliant actress. She clearly steals the show, but hats off to Surya also for portraying an amnesic patient brilliantly (though I felt he had the same facial expressions like his previous movies).

All in all, it's a brilliant entertainer with carefully placed songs and a fast paced screenplay which never lets you get up from the seat! The only flip I saw was when in the flashback sequence where Asin is hiding in her house to escape from the gangsters and she not answering Surya's phone call, and instead letting it ring till the goondas hear it!

Plusses:
Brilliant storyline and screenplay.
Asin's acting.
Actions sequences. (Though a tad similar to Matrix style fights, it was different)


Minuses:
Nayantara's disappointing performance! (She needs to lose her extra flabs fast).

PS: Don't know what Ghajini means in Tamil, but didn't see any relation to the movie with the name. Anyone knows?