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Gajini is a 2005 Indian Tamil romantic psychological thriller film directed by A. R. Murugadoss and produced by Salem Chandrasekharan under Sri Saravanaa Creations. The film stars Suriya, Asin, Nayantara in lead roles with Pradeep Rawat and Riyaz Khan playing supporting roles. Harris Jayaraj composed the soundtrack and background music, while R. D. Rajasekhar and Antony were the film's cinematographer and editor respectively. The film explores the life of a rich businessman who develops anterograde amnesia following a violent encounter in which his love interest was killed. He tries to avenge the killing with the aid of Polaroid Instant camera photographs, permanent tattoos on his body and a medical college student.
The film was initially titled Mirattal with Ajith intended to play the lead role, but the project was shelved. Murugadoss retitled the production Ghajini and cast the new leads. The revived project was announced in February 2005. Production began shortly afterwards in April and was completed by March on the same year. The film was shot at Chennai, while two song sequences were filmed in Switzerland.
The film's main plot was adapted from Christopher Nolan's Memento and comedy plot was inspired by 1951 British movie Happy Go Lovely. It was dubbed and released in Telugu by Allu Aravind in November 2005, and both versions enjoyed critical and commercial acclaim. The film was released on 29 September 2005 and received positive reviews from critics with praise directed towards the performances of lead pair and the film's plot. It was remade into a Hindi film by Murugadoss again in 2008, starring Aamir Khan with Asin reprising her role.
Ghajini is a 2008 Indian action psychological thriller film written and directed by A. R. Murugadoss and produced by Allu Aravind, Tagore Madhu and Madhu Mantena. The soundtrack and score is by A. R. Rahman. It is a remake of Murugadoss's own 2005 Tamil film of the same name starring Aamir Khan in the lead role along with Asin and it became the highest grossing movie of that year and the first Hindi film to cross the 100 crore mark. It stars Aamir Khan, Asin and Jiah Khan in lead roles while Pradeep Rawat and Riyaz Khan essay supporting roles. The film's main plot was adapted from Christopher Nolan's Memento. and comedy plot was inspired by 1951 British movie Happy Go Lovely.
The film explores the life of a rich businessman who develops anterograde amnesia following a violent encounter in which his love interest, model Kalpana, was killed. He tries to avenge the killing with the aid of Polaroid Instant camera photographs and permanent tattoos on his body. Aamir Khan's character was featured in a 3D video game titled Ghajini – The Game, which is based on the movie. On release it became the highest grossing movie of all time until it was beaten by another Aamir Khan movie 3 Idiots the following year. Ghajini's paid preview collections were . With this movie, Asin made her debut in Bollywood.
Ghajini can refer either of two Indian films:
- Ghajini (2005 film), a Tamil film starring Surya Sivakumar and Asin, directed by A. R. Murugadoss
- Ghajini (2008 film), the Hindi remake of the Tamil film Ghajini (2005 film)