Ghajini (2008)

Interesting facts

• Based on: Ghajini

Ghajini is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language psychological action thriller film directed by A. R. Murugadoss from a screenplay by Murugadoss and Aamir Khan. A remake of Murugadoss' 2005 Tamil film of the same name, it stars Khan, Asin, Jiah Khan and Pradeep Rawat. In the film, Sanjay Singhania (Khan) seeks violent revenge for an attack which killed his fiancée and caused his anterograde amnesia.

Production

Post the massive success of Ghajini, Murugadoss expressed interest in remaking the film with Salman Khan, but Pradeep Rawat felt like Aamir Khan might gel with Murugadoss better.

It was rumoured earlier that the film was titled Kajri. It is a remake of the Tamil film, Ghajini (2005). Aamir Khan, who had never before worked in a remake film in his career, was initially hesitant to do the film, but was convinced by Suriya, the original star of the Tamil Ghajini, who told him he was "the only one who could do justice to the character." Suriya was a fan of Khan, and had some involvement in the film's development, discussing m…

Priyanka Chopra was offered the role of Kalpana, but was later replaced by Asin, who reprised her role from the original Tamil film.

Khan was involved in the film's creative writing process, deciding what should remain from the original Tamil Ghajini and what changes should be made. Murugadoss revealed that the altered climax of the film was rewritten by Khan. According to Murugadoss:

We didn't make too many changes in the rest of the film. Every time I'd suggest a change in Ghajini from the original, Aamir would firmly cut it down, saying we should stick to the Tamil script. But he decided we should rewrite the climax. The entire location, incidents and dialogues for the climax were re-written by Aamir. I think the Hindi version is far better than the Tamil Ghajini because of the changes Aamir made.

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