Ghajini

Ghajini is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film co-written and directed by A. R. Murugadoss, in his first Hindi film. It stars Aamir Khan, Asin (in her Hindi film debut , reprising her role from original) and Jiah Khan, with Pradeep Rawat as the titular antagonist. In the film, Sanjay Singhania (Khan), once an eminent businessman, suffers from anterograde amnesia after encountering the murder of his fiancée Kalpana (Asin) and sets out to avenge the same with the aid of photographs from a Polaroid Instant camera and permanent tattoos on his body. Ghajini served as the remake of Murugadoss's directorial Tamil-language film of the same name with Suriya. The central plot was derived from two films: Memento (2000) and Happy Go Lovely (1951). Aamir Khan and Murugadoss co-wrote the film, with Khan suggesting changes to suit the Hindi audience. Allu Aravind, Madhu Mantena and Tagore Madhu jointly acted as the producers; the film was distributed by Geetha Arts. A. R. Rahman composed the film's music. Released theatrically on 25 December 2008, Ghajini became the highest-grossing Indian film of the year, and the first Bollywood film to cross the 100 crore mark domestically, creating the 100 Crore Club. Ghajinis paid preview collections were 2.7crore. It went on to become the highest-grossing Indian film of all time, until it was surpassed by Aamir's next, 3 Idiots (2009), the following year and then by Shah Rukh Khan's Chennai Express (2013). Aamir's character was featured in a 3D video game titled Ghajini – The Game, which is based on the film. Plot Sunita, a medical student, is investigating the anterograde amnesia case of Sanjay Singhania, the chairman of Air Voice, a telecommunications company. She does so against her professor Dr. Debkumar Mitra's wishes, in spite of Sanjay being under criminal investigation. Sanjay, who loses his memory every 15 minutes, uses a system of photographs, notes, and tattoos on his body to recover his memory and remember his mission of avenging the murder of his fiancé Kalpana Shetty, who was killed by a criminal kingpin, Ghajini Dharmatma.