Ghajini- The hindi version review

I just came back from the theatres watching Gajini. This is an Indian Hindi remake of the movie Memento. The tamil version was called the same and starred the actor Surya in place of Amir (or Aamir) Khan. These posts contain spoilers so be forewarned. A random titbit here is that most of South India always add that extra “H” to the word to spell it out, while the Indians in the North usually omit it. For example Khadhi is spelt that way in the south while the North spell it as Kadhi.  Some other words are Ananth/Anant,  Raitha/Raita (that’s a curd dish), Shri / Sri … etc etc. Basically the south use the letter “h” and the North don’t that much. BUT in this movie, it’s the other way around

Hindi – Ghajini
Tamil – Gajini

Neat right? I thought so too.

The Story/Summary
Aamir Khan is an industrialist who runs a company that’s a shady copy of Airtel. He’s rich famous etc and gets his skull cracked open by a local gunda who came to kill his going-to-be-wife because she was involved in rescuing some girls who were wisked away for prostitution and could identify the gunda. Wow say that sentence without taking a breath. Aamir remembers things for 15 mins only and then forgets. He has some of his motor skills intact so can eat, take bath, poo (not shown) and take pictures and navigate the scenery well. Story revolves around how he tries to find the baddies, kill them and good-bye their asses.

The Good

Aamir’s role as the retard. Does a great job so much so that it over shoots into the non-retard part at times. I think he really lived this role up like Heath Ledger and I DARE YOU NOT TO look at his shirtless song sequences and wonder what the eff? Half the movie he’s flexing his muscles and you can’t but be amazed by his build.  The bad part are the suitings, whichever clown was in Van Huesen cannot obviously dress a guy up. That half shirt folded up to reveal biceps was an overkill. The direction is really good and some of the shots taken were mind blowing for an Indian film. Asin’s such a pleasure for the eyes. In this she looks even better than the Tamil version and talks very well. This movie she actually out does Amir Khan in the delivery.

The Bad
Besides what I wrote above, Jiah Khan. She doesn’t act too well, her expressions fail but she’s got a smoking body. So she more than makes up for it. Not really.. Her acting compared to Nayanthra in the Tamil version is sub par. The rest of the women inthe movies weren’t that good either. But since she had a crucial role, I was glad to see more of Asin and less of her.

The Ugly
Amir Khan’s costumes, the villians shirt and the iPhone being used by nincompoops. Well not really, only ugly thing was the dress code by the hero in the movie. Terrible.

I think the Tamil movie scores higher on this, unbelievable but true. Watch that as well to see Surya’s stellar performance. Watch this one to see Asin and hear better songs and a tad more professionally cut movie. My rating out of 10 would be a 6.5. What about you?

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What the eff is this blog about?

I am reading Darren Rowse‘s book on ProBlogging and one of the primary needs for it is to carve out a niche, be an authority and also to be a targetted person in a specific field. Now that would be good to drive in targetted traffic (organic mind you) and also to serve ads and monetize. I dream big about these things and in that effect I previously wrote that i’ll narrow it down to Power, Entertainment and Design. I think the first title is one of the stupidest written in history and I ask forgiveness. What the eff is power? I meant to say leadership, business acumen, thought forward-ness and stuff, instead a stupid name came up. So I’ll reword it.

What I’m focusing my blog on are a few things that interest me. People, Languages, Writing, Gaming, Movies, Business and Books. This is the personal aspect. I have a blog that concentrates a lot on gaming, that I am using to sprice up. I also write for the gaming websites SK Gaming and WCReplays.com so most of my news articles go there, everything else interesting is spread around.

So back to the topic. What does the Kageman want to write about in the personal blog?

I like Movies. and I like reviewing them. So Movie reviews.
I like books, reading and writing them and specifically business related books, since I stopped Novels a long time ago. So books will also be there.
I like Cooking, Lifestyle fashion stuff and overall Lifehacks and stuff that I use for various things, so Lifehacking is another thing.
I know somethings about Design and Creativity but hardly enough to be considered an authority on or to even go to the extent of learning them up, but creativity for daily needs… that I can do.

So here’s my new year resolution to bring this blog up front as one of the best reads on Movies, Books, Lifestyle and Lifehacking. That’s it no more and nothing else. 4 focus areas.

Movies

Books

LifeStyles and Lifehacking

The Beginning.

Updated to WordPress 2.7

Ok so like Chris Brogan said never start with an apology on your blog, so I won’t. I have upgraded to WordPress 2.7 with the help of my brother. I have loads of cool tips that I have jotted into my moleskine and will be posting them. I am also done with Outliers the book, will review it here along with a couple of movies I had the pleasure of watching.

Stay tuned. I’m active on twitter btw, so get your ass on over there.

Here’s wishing you a happy new year folks

2008 was a good year. A lot of stuff learnt and a lot to be implemented. My wish for 2009?

To write 5 posts a week.
To make it to the top blogs of 2009.
To find focus for this blog.
To create a meaning in the work I do.
To get my own theme up by Jan end.
To learn WordPress.

What about you guys?

Here’s wishing you all a very happy new year and a wonderful year ahead. Let’s kill it!