Friday, January 16, 2009

How I wasted 3 hours

Before I tell you how the 3 hours were wasted, I must tell what happened before that. In the evening, I started to watch Memento. I wasn't able to understand what is going on for some time when and then I started to join the pieces together. Sometimes I had to rewind and see what happened just to add the pieces together and half way through I understood how things were going on.

It was a treat to watch such a masterpiece, at times I felt as if I am suffering from short time memory loss. After watching the movie, I loaded 2 songs in iPod and thought of writing it down, in case I forget :D

Everything was good, day was going fine and then I decided to watch Ghajini, the film which is said to be a remake of Memento. As the movie progressed, I found it to be a complete crap and unrealistic story which has to be honest 100 times less suspense than Memento.

It will be an insult to Memento and all its cast & crew if Ghajini is said to be copy of Memento. It is truly no where close to being Memento. The concept as bloody stolen and a thriller was made into a pathetic, rather very common Bollywood type love story. The way Kalpana loves Sanjay is an insult to love.

I feel cheated, I feel raped, the biggest suspense and shocking incident in the whole movie was that Aamir's name was Sanjay and not Ghajini. That is probably the best thing after the track "Kaise Mujhe". The flaws in movie are so high, one can go on and on.

In short, Ghajini was a torture. It is painful if you have watched Memento just couple of hours back.