Tremendous publicity – 15 days before the release of the film, Aamir Khan was on every chat show to publicize Ghajini. The film was a news-sort on every news channel. No second thought that Ghajini got adequate and sufficient popularity through media. Be it through discussion on why the film is titled Ghajini or how did Aamir managed to build eight-pack physic or what is its story? Everything worked for Ghajini and Aamir. Today Ghajini is a sure shot hit. It created history in the first 15 minutes of its release (14 minutes and 52 seconds to be précised) and did business of around Rs. 170 crores in first 10 days of its release. In Mumbai first week bookings were sold out. No tickets were available on the year end (31st Dec 08) and New Year Eve (1st Jan 09). CNN IBN declared Aamir Khan as the most popular Bollywood personality of the year 2008. And further don’t be surprised if Filmfare includes him to their Power list with Shahrukh Khan and Yash Chopra.
I known that everyone (or say mostly everyone) has seen Ghajini by now. So What is taking me so long to publish the review? That is because I want this article to be more comparative analysis between Memento (English, 2000), Ghajini (Tamil, 2005) and Ghajini (Hindi, 2008) rather then focusing on the Hindi version alone. As for the matter of fact this review will focus on relative study that will help the reader to get a broader perspective towards:
how cinema is changing in due course of time?
how language and audience matters in consideration of remake?
how a same plot can be scripted differently?
and how much other aspect apart from filmmaking influence a popularity of film?
So wait and watch. Enlightenment is on the way.
Interesting..... waiting for your analysis
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