Sunday 12 April 2009

"50 Things I Learnt From Ghajini."

Well, here I go hammering Ghajini, the so- called blockbuster and cine wonder of Bollywood. I hate hypocrites and plagiarists. For those of you don’t know (you should have figured out this, by now) Ghajini was “heavily inspired” by a movie called Memento by Christopher Nolan (Director of The Dark Night, The Prestige, The Following and Batman Begins…If you haven’t seen any of these movies and you don’t even plan to see any of these movies, I politely request you to go kill yourself by buying watching the director’s cut of Love Story 2050.) The best part is that almost all these box office wonders in bollywood (Life in a Metro, Hum Tum) seek “inspiration” from some Hollywood movies but even fail to acknowledge that. It doesn’t make sense when you already have the script, the story board and everything ready made for you and you even fail to acknowledge the person who went through all the pain and hard work. BTW, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (ardent SRK fan, always will be) was unfairly compared to Ghajini. Yes, both were well acted but Ghajini was a copied concept and one should give credit to RBNDJ for being original.
I am a frequent visitor on IMDb.com and there one can usually find posts like 50 things you learn from Taken, or Fight Club etc. I found those posts hilarious and here are the “50 things I Learnt from Ghajini”
1) After watching Ghajini, go blog about it.
2) Hell yeah, Revenge is Sweet!!
3) Even Aamir Khan can screw up sometimes.
4) “Vishwas”(Confidence) aur “Ghamand” (Vanity)mein farak hota hai!” (These magical words can change your life.
5) World has achieved “Utopia”; people no more take advantage of people having problems and short comings. (All his employees remain faithful to him even after his injuries.)
6) If you remake a Hollywood movie, you have to make use of all the possible bollywood clichés.
7) If you see the love of your life for the first time, animated and exotic leaves will start falling on her.
8) If you are the C.E.O of a big MNC, you should always drive in a BMW 7 series car followed by 3 black Mercedes, if you don’t do that, then you are not a real big player in the corporate world.
9) The co-workers of a big CEO if see him outside office, they greet him by the ye olde “Salaam Saab”.
10) CEOs personally make sure that the company’s hoardings are placed at the “Right” spots; marketing guys just have a blast in their offices.
11) Models can fantasize themselves as a heroine in the middle of a traffic jam on a busy street.
12) Models travel in empty railway coaches going to Goa.
13) Models are dumb, if their boy friend shows up at a party with a BMW 7 series car followed by 3 black Mercedes and donates 5 lakh Rupees to charity, she still won’t suspect anything.
14) You can pretend to be anyone’s fiancée and not get caught. (This one requires practice.)
15) If the love of your life dies and you lose your memory, you don’t grieve about it, instead you work out heavily.
16) Pre-requisites to being a good Police Inspectors are good reading skills and ability to read any thing.
17) Police Inspectors are basically hopeless romantics, instead of calling for backup they’d rather prefer to read a suspect’s love story.
18) Tattooing can be painful, use Camlin permanent markers instead.
19) If there’s a name tattooed on you, you would NEVER consider googling it or looking up that person on orkut or facebook.
20) Always carry change with you, conductors were born with the right to say “Chutta nahi hai,chutta do nahi toh peeche waale bus mein se jaao”. (This one is very practical.)
21) If your hair cut is unique, people especially bus conductors remember you.
22) If you can tolerate a girl blabbering 24x7 and can actually find her talking pleasant, then you are in "love".
23) The most romantic place to propose to a girl has to be BEST bus.
24) A girl, who agrees to marry you, would NEVER ask about your family, your mother or other stuff, cos that would be too “trivial”.
25) Each love story needs to have two songs, one is sung by the guy when the guy tries to woo his woman and the other one, when he realizes he’s glad and lucky to be with her. (Songs can also be sung to make your woman jealous, to show you are sad and at some points, even to dance before the villains before the ultimate climax fight scene and to add more USP to the movie by throwing in an item number).
26) All the possible rich guys falling for middle class women will have to try Pani Puri. (Presence of a song or background music is compulsory).
27) Aamir Khan extensively researched wild animals to understand their wrath and use it in his antics.
28) If thugs go after you in a train, “DON’T EVER PULL THE CHAIN, TO STOP THE TRAIN” (Use of common sense is a cardinal sin), instead offer them a gold chain.
29) Jiah Khan is extremely awesome. Even if she barely has any role or dialogues, she is great eye candy.
30) If you suffer from a short term memory loss, you would still remember your fiancée but forget your manager, co-workers and friends.
31) If you plan to murder someone, make sure you don’t leave the bus tickets behind, finger prints, weapons used are secondary, bus tickets can screw you up big time.
32) The henchmen of the biggest criminal in town don’t believe in fire power or ammunition, sticks and construction instruments are replacing guns.
33) If you are a good Don/Thug/Small time crook, you have the potential to become a successful industrialist.
34) A good don always believes in diversifying, our beloved Ghajini was into trafficking, selling kidneys and pharmaceuticals.
35) Rajnikanth should deserve special thanks in the credits, since half the stunts were inspired by him.
36) If the movie is almost 3 hour long, then you should make it a point to cram in a song, so that it becomes 3 hour long. (Lattoo Lattoo!!)
37) A.R Rehman’s music can make any horrible movie pleasant and a bit watchable.( Also applicable for Yuvvraaj.)
38) No matter how many kicks and punches you get, nothing happens to the Polaroid camera you are carrying with you.
39) Never trust female students who are planning to do a case study on you.
40) Jiah Khan is awesome eye candy. (Did I already mention it?)
41) If you can mimic Aamir Khan’s reaction when he wakes up every morning, you can prevent your younger siblings from entering your room.
42) Gyms and fitness centers should teach Aamir Khan’s Ghajini antics to help people lose weight.
43) If there are thugs looking for you, make sure your cell phone is on silent mode.
44) Aamir Khan’s favorite meal would be maggi, cos it gets prepared in two minutes, he’d remember he cooked it and hence even manage to finish it.
45) Tattoo important phone numbers on your body; you cannot depend on your cell phones these days.
46) If you wanna look cool, fold into half, the sleeves of your half sleeves shirt. (Wonder why Aamir Khan didn’t do the same for his trousers.)
47) Though “inspired” from Memento, you would still remember every movie made by Rajini when you are watching Ghajini.
48) You are allowed to kill as many people as possible if you have short term memory loss.
49) Bullets, grenades, knife, safety pins, rods, hydrogen bomb et al, try everything on a guy suffering from memory loss, he will still survive and seek retribution.
50) Tell people to watch “Memento" and to appreciate originality and creativity.

22 comments:

Tejas Sharma said...

50 things... Whuff !

I guess if this list was shown to a kid... He wouldnt have watched the movie..

I suggest.. Put in Sarcasm at places. According to me it was 6/10... whereas it could have been 8-9/10...

Anyways "An effort done is marks gained." :P

Blank Space said...

lol...gud 1....i love the pt no..41..kya comment hai :P

well gud 2 see a post long after on yer blog :)

keep rhtting!

Alpha Centauri said...

Wow!
This sure makes for a very interesting read.

cheth said...

if you have short term memory loss you are licensed to do anything and escape with that reason.. does that apply if we fail in exams? lol

Unknown said...

Funny as hell, too bad we can't digg this!

Unknown said...

thanks a lot guys!

Manish Chauhan said...

That was awesome ...

One more from me ...

- Dont be to late in telling secrets :) (Aamir khan was not able to even tell the secret that he is Sanjay singhaniya )

Unknown!!! said...

awesome..dude.. 50pts..is too many..well... I watched memento some 4yrs back and after I heard what ppl said about this didnt dare to watch the movie :D

Manali S. said...

Extremely awesome!!! damn cool ya! 50 points is quite a lot!! way to go, UD! Rock on!!

sanjana said...

..ha ha.ha ha... i cant stop laughing.. it was hilarious..
mereko tune orkut pe dhamki toh aise diya i thot abhi kya jabardasti kuch comment marna padega... but this is really nice...
i mean wah kya observation hai aur kya translation hai... nice work... 50 things is such a big list... i cant even write 50 thinggs gud n bad togetehr abt myself!....n to write dem so well... sahi.. n sum things were strikingly different and unxpected... nice ya.. keep me posted on ur writings hence forth!

ruchi said...

Gd work..!!!

ill try n work on pt.41..!!
u shld rite more often..yr gap is 2 long..!!
2 sum it..i can say its sexy.!! :P

Anya said...

am tattoing some important stuff on my body too :)

www.chronicwriter.com

Sameeta Kambli said...

Yeah! I totally accept, they shouldn't mind acknowledging, if they don't mind "inspiring". Secondly I've watched The Prestige and The Dark Knight and I agree on this point too, that these movies don't even come close to Ghajini. I'd fortunately watched The Memento just few weeks before I watched Ghajini, and of course it just cannot be compared again!
Talking about RNBDJ i've been telling people the same thing, that I enjoyed it more than Ghajini [myself being a BIG fan of SRK too], I believe Amir's acting wasn't that good, he did not have much of scope for acting in the movie, in the flashabck it was Asin was everywehere, and after that all he did was grunting, nothing much, whereas RNBDJ has SRK, his acting at his best, wonderful dialogues, wonderful dialogue delivery, all in all a great movie.
Those 50 things are really as usual wonderfully sarcastic! nice job! loads of observation I must say.
It's great too see your post after such a long time!
Waiting for more!

shraddha said...

good thinking.. to go till 50...

Vee said...

Interesting!!!

Deepanjan said...

superb post overall, and really good observations i have to say, and yes point numbers 41 and 44....rotf

Ankitha said...

awesome list kid. you might be a pain but i love your writing!

iammystery said...

okay! i love this post, and hey hwudoin?? and yeah, i had deleted my orkut acc, and do write more! also,hwz coll?

Vaibhav Jain said...

One more from me:

- Dons like Ghajini don't need to have security men, equipments or locks activated at night, anyone is allowed access right thru the bedroom (However, if you were to visit their place during the day, you would be screened by a guard and spoken over a video phone before being allowed inside) Strange but true!

Unknown said...

You right very well Uddhav...read yer post accidentally! :)

bhavika said...

hey cme online na!!

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