Ghajini – Movie Review

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[rating:3.5]

During the weekend I watched Ghajini with my parents. I had already watched the Telugu version of the movie and wasnt really keen on checking out the hindi version, but the easy availability of tickets made me change my mind.

Firstly the bad reviews the movie has been receiving is quiet unwarranted. I felt the movie was pretty good and very entertaining. For a running time of 3 hours I did not feel distracted for much of the movie (except the songs). What I loved most about the movie was that this is one movie that can be truly said to have been “inspired” by its Hollywood counterpart. There were logically questionable events in the movie but considering the movie had a complex story (and it was already 3 hrs long) it can be excused.

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Movies of 2008…

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2008 was a good year for movie entertainment. With a movie every third day it is possibly the second best year of my life wrt watching movies… (The best year had the infamous summer months of ’01, which had over a hundred movies in a couple of months :P )

Thanks to Flixster and my Movie catalog, I was able to (once again) pull up graphs of my movie watching habits :)

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