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Ghajini (the movie)
Jan. 27th, 2009 09:18 pmMovie review for them as don't watch much Bollywood (the Bollyfew):
See my icon? That man is Aamir Khan. He is a very famous movie star. In India. Or, at least, in Hindi-speaking India. He is very gorgeous. He has a wonderful hairy chest and wonderful rounded arms. You can ogle them ( here )
In Ghajini, we first recognise Aamir Khan by his ears. We see his silhouette, and then we see his head from the rear, but the EARS are immediately recognisable. They are star-quality ears. In this film, he also loses his fleshliness (*sobs*) and gains around eight six-packs, a shaved chest (*sobs*) and a brutal skinhead-type buzzcut. ( Look at it here. )
Brutal!Aamir has short-term memory loss. Every 15 minutes his memory resets itself to 'blank'. To pass the tormented time, he beats baddies to a mindless pulp. After a while we find out the reason why: REVENGE.
Then we get a flashback!! The sun is shining! There are tall, shiny glass offices! Men in suits drive flashy cars! A cute girl dances and frolics! And oh my, she is very cute and utterly adorable. ( Asin the adorable )
The actress is called Asin and has a name in the film narrative as well. She is Tamil and is reprising her role from the original Tamil version of this film. She lights up the screen. Suddenly, all the brutal violence is swept away and we have fun and games. In fact, we have a comedy of errors. Aamir reappears, now with a full head of hair, sporting sunglasses and a tie. He is a business tycoon. He falls in love with cute!Asin but has to pretend to be a nameless non-tycoon. Asin lies to everybody that her boyfriend is the business tycoon. So then Aamir has to method-act his way through being a nameless non-tycoon pretending to be a tycoon while all along really being a tycoon.
Hilarity ensues.
( Aamir as tycoon )
Flashforward!! We're back in the brutal present! We find out why Aamir turned from tousled tycoon into hairless hoon! He roars! He fights! He bleeds! Very BAD things happen.
Then there's a lot of running, Danny-Boyle/Slumdog-Millionaire style, in which Aamir is scary and intense but no Asin to relieve the grimness.
The Melancholy End.
See my icon? That man is Aamir Khan. He is a very famous movie star. In India. Or, at least, in Hindi-speaking India. He is very gorgeous. He has a wonderful hairy chest and wonderful rounded arms. You can ogle them ( here )
In Ghajini, we first recognise Aamir Khan by his ears. We see his silhouette, and then we see his head from the rear, but the EARS are immediately recognisable. They are star-quality ears. In this film, he also loses his fleshliness (*sobs*) and gains around eight six-packs, a shaved chest (*sobs*) and a brutal skinhead-type buzzcut. ( Look at it here. )
Brutal!Aamir has short-term memory loss. Every 15 minutes his memory resets itself to 'blank'. To pass the tormented time, he beats baddies to a mindless pulp. After a while we find out the reason why: REVENGE.
Then we get a flashback!! The sun is shining! There are tall, shiny glass offices! Men in suits drive flashy cars! A cute girl dances and frolics! And oh my, she is very cute and utterly adorable. ( Asin the adorable )
The actress is called Asin and has a name in the film narrative as well. She is Tamil and is reprising her role from the original Tamil version of this film. She lights up the screen. Suddenly, all the brutal violence is swept away and we have fun and games. In fact, we have a comedy of errors. Aamir reappears, now with a full head of hair, sporting sunglasses and a tie. He is a business tycoon. He falls in love with cute!Asin but has to pretend to be a nameless non-tycoon. Asin lies to everybody that her boyfriend is the business tycoon. So then Aamir has to method-act his way through being a nameless non-tycoon pretending to be a tycoon while all along really being a tycoon.
Hilarity ensues.
( Aamir as tycoon )
Flashforward!! We're back in the brutal present! We find out why Aamir turned from tousled tycoon into hairless hoon! He roars! He fights! He bleeds! Very BAD things happen.
Then there's a lot of running, Danny-Boyle/Slumdog-Millionaire style, in which Aamir is scary and intense but no Asin to relieve the grimness.
The Melancholy End.