Ghajini () is a 2005
Tamil psychological thriller film directed by
A. R. Murugadoss released on October 14, 2005. The film stars
Suriya,
Asin,
Nayantara,
Pradeep Rawat and
Riyaz Khan. It was dubbed and released in Telugu by
Allu Aravind in November 2005, and both versions enjoyed critical and commercial acclaim. It was
remade into a Hindi film by Murugadoss again in 2008, starring
Aamir Khan with Asin playing the same role. The film's idea and lead character's struggle are similar to that of
Christopher Nolan's
Memento.
The film's story is around a rich business entrepreneur falling in love with an ad film actress. The entrepreneur and the actress fall in love, though she does not know that he is an entrepreneur. When she successfully saves a bunch of children who were in danger, she is brutally murdered by a gang leader and the entrepreneur himself gets hit hard on the head when he tries to save his lover, eventually leading him into a state of
short term memory loss. He is later studied about and helped by a psychology student to take revenge on the one who murdered his lover.
Plot
The story centers on Sanjay Ramaswami (
Surya Sivakumar), a rich businessman who owns a cell phone company named
Air Voice and the events surrounding his relationship with Kalpana (
Asin Thottumkal).
Kalpana, an
advertisement model, meets with representatives from Sanjay's company who come to request a business agreement and ends up telling her advertisement crew that she is...
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