Beware:He’s all over bollywood, informed and informing,Ghajini, the new mega film directed by A R Murugadoss , aamir khan The Dinner Game recollection prominent buzz married woman Ghajini .

Beware:He’s all over bollywood, informed and informing,Ghajini, the new mega film directed by A R Murugadoss , aamir khan The Dinner Game recollection prominent buzz married woman Ghajini .

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About as tolerable as watching a genocide

Mr. Aamir Khan's character has forgotten certain things. And the process of that recollection (apart from some of it being etched like a casual  to-do list on his muscled oiled body) will take him on a journey in Ghajini, the new mega film directed by A R Murugadoss (no connection to Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, Union Minister of Health, in case you tend to confuse your doss's). The film which envelops the multiplex system nationwide in the coming weeks is promoted with about the same energy as Attila The Hun ransacking Central Asia, in that there are very few walls, hoardings, newspapers, public spaces left in the nation that don't feature a prominent buzz cut sporting mega-star and his graceful bowed head like an Indian Mike Tyson in Buddhist prayer. Media reports suggest that employees across Indian cinema halls voluntarily opted for the shaved head and given Mr Khan's charm and charisma, civil servants, lawmakers, intelligentsia and the nation's few young (over 700 million at last count) would perhaps follow suit demanding the en vogue NSG look except for a manicured line of baldness, in what represents a lonely road were Mr Khan's head a Google map. Of course, what the retired kick-boxing appearance has to do with amnesia (the film is loosely based on the South Indian success of the same name which is loosely based on Christopher Nolan's Memento) will be revealed this week. It sort of suggests that one could lose one's memory, without forgetting where the salon and the gym are. When Mr Nolan's Memento was unveiled on the world, purveyors of slick cinema, the Pulp Fiction generation, hailed the arrival of the uber-modern school of storytelling. That is, not telling story but presenting a confusion, and letting the protagonist and his millions of hipster fans figure out concepts of beginning, middle and end to conclude how cool it all was, even when none of it made sense. A video game of a film, it had all the elements of modern life- chaos, speed, the inarticulate, shock, stark images, noise, and a profound belief in rubbish masquerading as pop philosophy. Memento however went on to become a cult classic inspiring many stories that began in the middle, ended in the beginning and variations thereof. And while internet movie sites are rife with speculation about what percentage of Ghajini is the original Memento (63.3 per cent screams an IMDB blogger, somehow having reached an exact figure), the larger question it raises is this; when a classic creates a genre or a theme, could all stories that take from it be considered stolen? Given we have King Lear or the The Sound of Music, could any future story involving an old man's dilemma over inheritance or a nun singing her way to freedom be accused of plagiarism? If one is allowed to interpret Shakespeare, say as Mel Gibson does, then is Mr Ram Gopal Varma any different in doing Godfather set in Bandra East?  Is there a time limit thus before the original Memento can be opened up, shaved, have a shirt removed and sprayed with graffiti? I recently saw a frighteningly bad local adaptation of Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives, where the one thing that should have been copied, the dialogue, was original and therefore, about as tolerable as watching a genocide. Then there are inexplicable instances where a French film like The Dinner Game, a witty criticism of France's bourgeois intellectualism, copied in toto, becomes a runaway success for reasons entirely different- actor Vinay Pathak's mimicry of old Hindi songs. Hence my request to future moviemakers/ plagiarists is this, do copy with reckless pleasure because creating something of your own will only get in the way of success. But while copying, copy well and please don't leave things out. Especially things that made the original so original. As Tom Stoppard said in the Real Thing, "If you're trying to sleep with a married woman, you'll get nowhere bad-mouthing her husband." *  Do copy with reckless pleasure because creating something of your own will only get in the way of success

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