Monday, December 22, 2008

Forget everything... even the 'inspired' tag


All those expecting Ghajini to be a take on Memento better keep their hopes in check.

Sure, the first publicity stills from the film show [Images] channeling both some over-steroided WWE wrestler as well as the hero from Christopher Nolan's fantastic 2000 thriller. The similarities are too obvious -- clues and leads tattooed across the body, polaroids of hints captured before memory flits away -- and even if Khan is bulked up like a human growth hormone advertisement, the makers of the upcoming release admit that he suffers from short term memory loss in a way pretty much identical to the anterograde amnesia showcased in Memento.

Yet going in expecting a fresh, nouveau-Bollywood spin on one of the most groundbreaking thrillers in years would be asking for... not too much, but too predictable a product. And Ghajini's [Images] setting itself to offer you a whole different brand of masala.

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