Movie Review - Ghajini

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Story in a line:
Asin is killed by a dada because she exposes his lucrative illegal business. The dada hits Surya on the head, causing him to have short term memory loss (couldnt understand why the dada didnt think of killing him too). Surya takes revenge.

The verdict:
I loved the first half of the movie. The look of the movie is really fresh. There is no village hero seeking to reform Chennai. The hero is sauve and stylish (no catering to the masses here) and the heroine thankfully is dressed in clothes other than Saravana stores salwar kameezes. The movie is fast paced too.

But ofcourse, good things do not last. More on that later.

Surya underplays his role, and is super cute as Sanjay Ramaswamy. Asin's looks are a far cry from her debut movie, and she is sure to be the next number one in Tamizh cinema. She is chirpy (reminded me of Revathi) and certainly has more soul than the Trishas of the world. About Nayanthara...the less said, the better. Her clothes are all wrong, and her character is totally let down by the script writers.

As the movie progresses, the sodhapal factor sky rockets.

There are a bunch of unanswered questions. What happens to Riyaz Khan (the police inspector)? If Surya has attacked/killed him, why is the entire police force not searching for him? The script offers no explanation for how Surya traces all the people that he kills. Asin gets killed after a long, noisy, violent fight sequence inside and outside a posh flat in Besantnagar. When all this happens, there is not a soul around. No neighbours, no watchman, nothing! In Madras? Logic anyone?

Asin makes a big dialogue about how dadas destroy the morale of women and kill the progress they have made by exploiting them. In the end, when the villains beat Nayanthara up in a girl's hostel, a 100 girls watch, without a single girl budging. Can't a 100 girls take 5 goons out? How regressive is that?

And here is the biggest question of all...why is the movie called Ghajini?