Is it the lure of easy lucre, the siren call of more fame or just the pitfalls of plain stupidity.
Hey, who is it that can tell with certainty why Bollywood star Aamir Khan is embracing a foul-smelling thieving swine like Ghajini movie director A.R. Murugadoss.
Why, oh, why is Aamir Khan so enthusiastically willing to ignore the overpowering stench of the pig’s blood pouring out from Ghajini director Murugadoss’ various orifices and now seeping into Aamir’s own body. After all, Murugadoss is also the director of the Hindi version of Ghajini (a remake of the Tamil Ghajini) featuring Aamir Khan in the lead role.
To refresh our memory, we recently re-watched both Ghajini (Tamil) and Memento (If you live in the U.S., both are available from Netflix).
Now, hear our verdict:
Unless you are a blithering idiot, suffer from short-term memory loss, an unabashed apologist for stealing or sand-blind, it’s completely clear that Ghajini is nothing but yet another instance of the Tamil thieving swines (yes, we mean you Murugadoss) filching a fine Hollywood plot and claiming it as their own.
Murugadoss claims credit for the story, screenplay, dialogs and direction for Ghajini (Tamil). Yeah, right. And we are Lawrence of Arabia. And you dear reader are Ashoka the Great.
No ifs and buts here. Ghajini (Tamil) is nothing but a crude, ugly copy of Memento.
Well, here is the long list of similarities between Memento and Ghajini:
1. Both movies deal essentially with the story of a young man suffering from an unusual disability – the inability to form new memories for longer than a few minutes (As Leonard Shelby explains in Memento to the motel clerk: If we talk for too long, I’ll forget how we started).
2. Both movies focus on a young male protagonist who is extremely focused on extracting revenge for the murder of his loved one (wife in the case of Memento and girlfriend in Ghajini).
3. Both movies have a male protagonist whose short-term memory problems are caused by a violent blow to the head as he rushes to save his wife/girlfriend from a brutal attack.
4. Both movies highlight the use of tattoos by the protagonist on his body as a technique to remember important facts because it’s a permanent way of keeping a note (as Leonard says in Memento).
While the above four points indisputably demonstrate the major similarities between the two movies, there are similarities galore between Memento and Ghajini.
By the way, similarities in plain English means copying by Murugadoss because Memento (2000) came much earlier to Ghajini (2005).
Keep in mind that these are not coincidences but carefully planned and executed theft by the thieving swine Murugadoss. All for a few silver coins.
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