Ghajini

It stars Aamir Khan, Asin (in her Hindi film debut, reprising her role from original) and Jiah Khan (in her penultimate film role before her death in 2013), with Pradeep Rawat as the titular antagonist. It is a remake of Murugadoss’s directorial Tamil-language film of the same name. The film tells about Sanjay Singhania (Khan), a powerful entrepreneur, who suffers from anterograde amnesia after a violent attack on him and his fiancee Kalpana (Asin).

The film’s plot was inspired from two films: Memento (2000) and Happy Go Lovely (1951). Khan and Murugadoss co-wrote the film, with Khan suggesting changes to suit a Hindi-language 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. Ghajini’s paid preview collections were ₹ 2.7 crore. 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.

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.

Police officer Arjun Yadav, who is investigating a murder that Sanjay committed, knocks Sanjay unconscious in a scuffle at his apartment and finds two diaries in his drawer. He learns that Sanjay who is a successful entrepreneur met Kalpana, a struggling model, after he planned on installing an advertising billboard above her apartment. When his agents arrive at Kalpana’s shooting site to negotiate with her about it, Kalpana’s boss, advertising veteran Satveer Kohli, misinterprets this as a romantic advance and, in a view of fame and fortune, encourages Kalpana to accept the overture. Kalpana decides to pose as Sanjay’s girlfriend. As soon as Sanjay finds out about the false rumor, he plans to meet Kalpana to confront her but fails, as he starts to like her after seeing her altruistic nature. He poses as Sachin Chauhan, a newcomer model, and lies to Kalpana about himself. Soon, he falls deeper in love with her. At the end of the first diary, on 31 December, Sanjay, still playing Sachin, proposes to Kalpana who, taken aback by such a sudden gesture, asks for the night to think over it. He decides that if she would agree, then he would reveal his true identity to her, but, if not, then he would quietly walk away from her life as Sachin.

As Arjun starts reading the second diary, Sanjay attacks him and ties him up. Sunita locates the apartment, finds Arjun tied up and learns of Sanjay’s murder plot in his absence. She steals his diaries and frees Arjun. Sanjay suddenly appears. As she and Arjun escape, Arjun is hit by a bus. Sunita then informs Ghajini about the fact that Sanjay is coming to him to kill him. Sanjay finds out about this and goes to attack her at her dormitory, where he is arrested and given a sedative. Ghajini is informed by the police about Sanjay’s belongings and he poses as Sanjay’s friend. Soon Sanjay’s employees and doctor arrive and take him home. There, Ghajini and his men destroy his pictures and cover his tattoos, thus leaving him with no memory of the past.

After Sanjay gets arrested, Sunita reads the diaries. She finds out about Kalpana. In the second diary, Kalpana accepts the proposal, but on the condition that she marry only after she purchases three ambassador cars, due to a past commitment. One thing leads to another and Sanjay decides on telling her the truth about himself later. The diary ends abruptly when Sanjay has to go overseas for a few days.

After some research, Sunita eventually learns Kalpana travelled to Goa, where she stumbled across and freed a group of girls from a sex trafficking ring racketeered by Ghajini. Back in Mumbai, Ghajini confronts Kalpana when she discovers two of the girls went missing and then she walks away in disgust. Later that night, a constable calls Kalpana and informs Ghajini is set out to kill her and his henchmen are hiding inside her house. Kalpana fails to save herself and Sanjay rushes to her home after she calls him and finds Kalpana stabbed. Ghajini hits Sanjay in the head with an iron rod which results in brain injury, before killing Kalpana with the same rod, in front of him. Feeling guilty of doubting him, Sunita reminds Sanjay of Kalpana’s murder and helps him track Ghajini to his local area. Sanjay then kills his men but has a memory loss fit while searching for Ghajini, who takes advantage of the situation and stabs Sanjay using a rod. As he prepares to kill Sunita the same way he killed Kalpana, Sanjay recovers his memory, pulls the rod out and throws it at Ghajini’s face in the nick of time and finally kills Ghajini with the iron rod in the same way he did to Kalpana.

Six months later, Sanjay returns as the chairman of Air Voice and is volunteering at an orphanage named after Kalpana, helping everyone like she did, and trying to heal. Sunita gifts him the cement pad with Sanjay and Kalpana’s foot impressions and he feels Kalpana beside him, as the screen pans out in a fading sunset.