Ghajini

(A Movie Critique)

Norlailah M. Amanollah

Main Characters:
Sanjay Singhania

Sanjay is the chairman of the Air Voice, a mobile phone company. Who later suffers from 'short term memory loss'
after a brutal attack.

Kalpana Shetty

Kalpana is a model who became famous after falsely proclaiming herself as the girlfriend of Sanjay Singhania.

Sunita

A medical student, who tries to study Sanjay Singhania's case and amnesiac problem even though she is not
allowed to do so.

Ghajini Dharmatma

The chairman of GD Pharmaceuticals Ltd. A leader of a gang and the mastermind of many illegal and criminal
ventures.

Setting:
The setting of this movie was taken place at the Odyssey, the building of Sanjay Singhania located in Orchard
Avenue Pin 400076, also in Mumbai and Goa. The story of this movie happened on 2005 and 2006, which shows
the past of the story, and 2 years passed by. On 2008, it shows the present time of this movie.

Plot:
On 2005, a beautiful and generous lady named Kalpana who is a model from the advertisement film company of
Satveer Kohli, was falsely proclaimed as a girlfriend of Sanjay Singhania of her co-workers and she played along it,
through this she bacame known to everyone, since Sanjay is the chairman of the famous mobile phone company,
the Air Voice. When Sanjay Singhania goes to Kalpana to cleared the spread fake news about him and Kalpana that
in relationship, but when he had seen Kalpana he was in loved at first sight because of Kalpana's beauty and
generousness. Then, he had introduced himself as Sachin not Sanjay Singhania to Kalpana. Afterwards, Kalpana
and Sanjay became close to each other.
On the 1st of January 2006, Sanjay and Kalpana became lovers, whereas Kalpana does not even know that he really
was Sanjay. After a long run, both Sanjay and Kalpana had different business that they need to separate for a
while, Kalpana had her business advertisement in Goa, unfortunately she had not continue going to Goa because
of something happened in the train, wherein she got involved with Ghajini’s business by saving 25 childrens that
was kidnapped by Ghajini and his henchmen. Outraged, Ghajini broke into Kalpana's apartment with his goons to
kill her. When Sanjay arrived, he found Kalpana stabbed in her back. Ghajini then hit Sanjay over the head with an
iron rod. Sanjay's last sight was Ghajini brutally murdering Kalpana with the iron rod, and Kalpana's last word to
Sanjay was “Ghajini”.

On 2008, the present times, Sanjay is alive with a scar to his head and disease of 'Anterograde Amnesia' known as
short term memory loss, in which he remembers events for only about 15 minutes and after that everything is
erased, in order for Sanjay to remember things, he captures everything and write every details he does. Through
prictures and writings he can recognize things, people and events. A medical student named Sunita tries to study
Sanjay's case and amnesiac problem, and was the one who helped out Sanjay to get revenge from Ghajini, as she
had read Sanjay's diaries on 2005 upto 2006 and everything happened to him. For Sanjay, everything on his mind is
to get revenge and kill Ghajini who killed Kalpana, his loved one. A right time came, when he got his revenge and
killed Ghajini as how Ghajini killed Kalpana, Sanjay do the same to Ghajini. After 6 months, with a cured Sanjay
who is once again the Chairman of AirVoice and is volunteering at an orphanage named after Kalpana. Sunita gives
him a gift that reminds him of his bond, with Kalpana, and Sanjay sees Kalpana by his side. Sanjay is finally at peace
with himself.

Critique:
Ghajini is an Indian movie with Hindi-language action thriller. When we say a film produced from India it is
expected to have some scenes in content, wherein the main characters are singing or dancing, somehow an
advertisement, which is very common to every Indian film, and this kind of concept is part of their culture in terms
of film-making, the style of their singing and dancing. The Ghajini plays the same, as expected, it has the same
concept and content of singing and dancing it shows.

The movie does not actually emphasize stereotype, every characters in this movie has different abilities
how much more Sanjay, he is a very strong man unlike the others even Ghajini. At first he is not actually strong,
but when Kalpana was killed and all of in his mind is to get revenge, imagine how strong he is, that even Ghajini’s
men tried to hit him with a metal weapon nothing will bleed on him. Also Kalpana, she is very generous unlike her
co-workers and friends, unlike Ghajini who does not even have a concern to other people, he does everything
what he pleases. They are actually different to one another.

Talking about the characters of the movie if they played a real-life situations, I can say they really do, in
terms of crimes happened in the movie, as we can observe in our society crimes are unstoppable. As of Kalpana's
situation by playing along to what others thinks and thoughts of her just in order not to be behind by them, it is
common in this generation in our society even this movie was shown 9 years ago, but it is still existing to the
characteristics of some people. And, Sanjay getting revenge to Ghajini as he killed Kalpana, who is the first love of
Sanjay and the one and only he will love for the rest of his life, this situation is common in our society as well as in
our Filipino dramas and films. Other situations happened and shown in the movie are not actually common in the
society.

The main point of the movie, Ghajini is getting revenge for your love ones, because in this movie it
emphasizes justice for everyone. Aside from that, it sends a message to everyone to be generous, as how Kalpana
plays her role in this movie, and that even before, technology was predominant, as Sanjay Singhania said during his
interview about his mobile company, “I strongly feel that technology has to reach people beyond social and
economic barriers”. Also care more our brain, wherein Sanjay suffered from short term memory loss, and as the
doctor said to his medical students including Sunita, “Brain is the most important organ of the human body. It’s the
brain that controls every human body part. The most vital component in the human system. Brain is the king of all
human body part”. Lastly, but not the least which is the main concept of this movie, is the so-called “love”. Love is
the most powerful weapon we can have and we can bring everywhere we goes, which it may allows us to be
happy, feel free, sad, broken, contented, everything we can felt, as well as it can makes us to do crimes even killed
people. Love is very angerouss when you cannot handle it properly.

This movie is actually about a man who suffers from a short term memory loss after getting hit by a metal,
and wanted to get avenge who killed her girlfriend. This movie has a very nice concept and interesting story
although it is not tearful like other movies. Also, you will get curious and will continue to watch it even it last long
for about 3 hrs and 5 minutes. But, the only thing that makes the story weak is the quality of their action scenes,
sometimes it is too fast then too slow, and you can clearly see that it is unreal. Actually, the quality of the whole
movie is out-of-date since this movie was released on 2008. About the actors, Ghajini Dharmatma, the villain does
not suits him being as the villain of the movie, his acting skills is not convincing although he is a big guy with a
black-colored skin that makes him plays the role as the villain, whereas he even played the role of being killer and a
gang leader. Unlike Sanjay Singhania, his acting skills is quite something really good and impressive, has handsome
looks that suits him as a rich businessman who owns a company and building, especially when he became anger
that want to get revenge he is really fearless. And, about Kalpana, she plays her role accurately being as a model
and generous lady. For overall review, it is satisfying to watch and recommended to everyone.