Ghajini

Ghajini is a romantic action thriller that explores the life of a once-rich businessman who suffers from short term memory loss following a violent encounter. Parts of the film were shot in the Deadpan Desert of Namibia and in Cape Town, South Africa.
Cast
· Aamir Khan as Sanjay Singhania
· Asin Thottumkal as Kalpana
· Jiah Khan as Sunita (Medical Student)
· Riyaz Khan as Police officer
· Pradeep Rawat as Lakshman
Plot
The film’s main story is inspired from Memento directed by Christopher Nolan. Sanjay Singhania (Aamir Khan), is a rich businessman who owns a cellular phone company named Air Voice and the events surrounding his relationship with Kalpana (Asin Thottumkal).
Kalpana, an advertisement model goes around telling her advertisement crew that she is the love interest of Sanjay. She does this in spite of she having never met him and also goes to the extent of giving an interview about her relationship to a popular magazine. Sanjay happens to hear about this through the media and wants to settle scores with her. On his way, he catches a fleeting glimpse of a young woman (who happens to be Kalpana) helping handicapped children to cross a street. It is love at first sight for Sanjay. He moves on to confront Kalpana at her advertisement studio. He is pleasantly surprised to realize that she is the same helpful woman he saw a while ago. He chooses to hide the fact from her that he is Sanjay, calling himself as Manohar. Kalpana eventually falls in love with him.
Once, while on a train to Mumbai, Kalpana saves a group of young girls from abuse by a group of goons led by Lakshman (Pradeep Rawat). After a few days, the same goons come to Kalpana’s house in order to avenge their embarrassment. Incidentally, Sanjay arrives at the scene and fights off the goons, but during the ensuing fight, Kalpana is murdered. The irony showcased is that Kalpana never finds out that he is Sanjay. Lakshman then strikes the downcast Sanjay on his head severely with a metal rod. Sanjay survives the blow, but acquires anterograde amnesia because of the trauma of his brain injury. At any given time, he does not remember anything that happened more than 15 minutes back, although he frequently has flashbacks of Kalpana’s murder. He determines to take revenge on those responsible for Kalpana’s death. The rest of the story is about how Sanjay, along with a medical college student Sunita (Jiah Khan), goes about finding Lakshman and the goons.
Promotion
· The film promos were launched on Diwali.[1]
· For inital promotion of the film the producers tied up with all the leading multiplex chain and has told their employees to go bald style like that of Aamir Khan.[2]
Music
Ghajini

Soundtrack by A. R. Rahman
Released
November 25, 2008 (India)
Recorded
Panchathan Record Inn, AM Studios
Genre
Feature film soundtrack
Label
T-Series
Producer
A. R. Rahman
A. R. Rahman chronology
Yuvvraaj(2008)
Ghajini(2008)
Slumdog Millionaire(2008)
The film has six songs composed by A. R. Rahman , with lyrics by Prasoon Joshi:
Song
Singer(s)
Duration
Guzarish
Javed Ali, Sonu Nigam

Aye Bachchoo
Suzanne D’Mello

Kaise Mujhe
Benny Dayal & Shreya Ghoshal

Behka
Karthik

Latoo
Shreya Ghoshal

Kaise Mujhe (Instrumental)
Instrumental

Distribution Rights
The domestic distribution rights of Ghajini were sold for 53 crores and home video rights, overseas rights and satellite rights for another Rs 40 crore. [3]