Memento

I thought of watching this film as I heard that "Ghajini" is a remake of this movie. (After watching the movie, I realised that except for the short term memory loss, Polaroid camera and Tattoo,they have nothing in common)
This was the most confusing movie I have seen so far. After every scene I was having the feel that I am facing the same problem as the protagonist in the movie 'Short Term Memory Loss'. The first thing that I did after watching this movie was to browse through the net to get more informations about this movie. I was happy to know that the most of the people faced the same problem while watching this movie. I would definitely like to watch this movie once more.

It stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a former insurance fraud investigator searching for the man he believes raped and killed his wife during a burglary.Leonard suffers from anterograde amnesia, which he contracted from severe head trauma during the attack on his wife. This renders his brain unable to store new memories. To cope with his condition, he maintains a system of notes, photographs, and tattoos to record information about himself and others, including his wife's killer.
The film's events unfold in two separate, alternating narratives—one in color, and the other in black and white. The black and white sections are told in chronological order, showing Leonard conversing with an anonymous phone caller in a motel room. Leonard's investigation is depicted in five-minute color sequences that are in reverse chronological order. As each scene begins, Leonard has just lost his recent memories, leaving him unaware of where he is or what he was doing. The scene ends just after its events fade from his memory. By reversing the order, the spectator is unaware of the preceding events, just like Leonard. By the film's end, the two narratives converge into a single color sequence.

Maharathi

I thought of giving this movie a try just because of the starcast....paresh rawal, nasaruddin shah, boman irani, om puri....it is a dream cast...
Later i came to know that it was an adaption of paresh rawal's acclaimed drama...
The movie was not so impressive when compared to the expectation I had b'coz of the starcast.....It is quiet boring at various instances....The plot is good...but its almost predictable...
Subhash (Paresh Rawal) is a struggling actor cum small time crook who makes money by cheating unsuspecting ATM visitors. One late night he saves a man’s life, to do so he puts his own at risk. He ends up accompanying the injured man back home. Subhash is awe struck at the grandeur and affluence of Mr. Adenwalla. (Naseeruddin Shah) Subhash realizes this may lead to a generous tip. Adenwalla impressed by Subhash hires him as his driver much to the resentment of his beautiful much younger wife, Mallika (Neha Dhupia). Subhash realizes nothings well between Adenwalla and his wife. Once a big time filmmaker, Adenwalla is now forever drowned in alcohol and is now frustrated with his greedy wife. He decides to teach her lesson by throwing upon her a ‘deadly’ challenge. What this challenge is all about and how Subhash gets embroiled into it and what it unexpected situations it further leads to forms the rest of the film.

Slumdog Millionaire

Excellent movie....I liked it very much....Two days after it got a lot of awards at Golden Globe....I couldn't wait till the Indian Release....I downloaded the movie...Today I didn't go to Office as I was back only yesterday after the Andaman Tour.
Lot of reasons to be proud of as an Indian....Rahman's Music...Indian Actors....Indian locations (hmm...though the slums)...

The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.

Ghajini

This was the most anticipated movie of 2008. The hair cut of Aamir Khan became a style statement. The expectations was high as Aamir Khan has always delivered good films.
The review of the movie was also good. Even Rajeev Masand gave it good rating inspite it being a pure commercial movie.
I had seen the Tamil version of the movie long time back. I dont remember the details of the movie now but I was very much moved by the first half of the movie (I loved watching Asin and the love story between Asin and Surya).
Since Asin was doing the same role in the Hindi version I wanted to watch the movie (atleast for the first half)

I liked watching the movie. Asin, Aamir, Ghajini (I dont know this guys name) all were good. There is not much change in the script from the tamil version (except that the villain is not doing a double role).
The movie is an action-thriller, with strong romantic elements, that explores the life of a rich businessman who suffers from 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 torso.