GENRES
Action | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
RELEASE DATE
| USA | 24 December 2008 |
| Denmark | 25 December 2008 |
| UK | 25 December 2008 |
| India | 25 December 2008 |
RANK
PLOT
Sanjay Rama loses his memory every 15 minutes after being shot with an iron stick on his head. He has lots of tattoos for not forgetting the murder and searched for his lover’s murderer. He started to kill the people who were involved in the murder. Finally, he achieved his goal and killed Ghajini.
CHARACTERS
| Aamir Khan | Sanjay Singhania / Sachin |
| Asin | Kalpana Shetty |
| Jiah Khan | Sunita |
| Tinnu Anand | Satveer Kohli |
| Pradeep Singh Rawat | Ghajini Dharmatma (as Pradeep Rawat) |
AWARDS
Apsara Film Producers Guild Awards 2010
| Nominee Apsara Award | Best Actor Aamir Khan (actor) |
Apsara Film Producers Guild Awards 2008
| Nominee Apsara Award | Best Cinematography Ravi K. Chandran (director of photography) Geetha Arts (production company) |
Awards of the International Indian Film Academy 2009
| Winner Popular Award | Best Female Debut Asin |
| Winner Technical Award | Best Special Effects Prime Focus |
| Best Action Peter Hein Stun Shiva | |
| Best Sound Recording Resul Pookutty Amrit Pritam Dutta | |
| Nominee Popular Award | Best Film Madhu B. Madhu Mantena Varma Allu Aravind Geetha Arts |
| Best Actor in a Leading Role Aamir Khan | |
| Best Director A.R. Murugadoss | |
| Best Actress in a Leading Role Asin | |
| Best Performance in a Negative Role Pradeep Singh Rawat | |
| Best Music Director A.R. Rahman |
Filmfare Awards 2009
| Winner Filmfare Award | Best Newcomer – Female Asin |
| Best Action Peter Hein | |
| Winner R.D. Burman Award | Benny Dayal For Yuvvraaj and Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na |
| Nominee Filmfare Award | Best Film A.R. Murugadoss |
| Best Actor Aamir Khan | |
| Best Actress Asin | |
| Best Director A.R. Murugadoss | |
| Best Music Director A.R. Rahman |
Screen Awards, IN 2009
| Nominee Screen Award | Best Film |
| Best Actor Aamir Khan | |
| Best Actress Asin |
Ghajini is the most different film that I saw ever. The story is good but the problem, this movie is too long so flow of events in the film is poor.
My favorite character is Kalpana because Kalpana is brave.
My favorite scene was Ghajini’s was death.
IMDb
7,3/10 ⭐
Produced by
| Harish Amin | line producer |
| Madhu B. | producer (as Tagore Madhu) |
| Tejaswita Desai | assistant line producer |
| Madhu Mantena Varma | producer (as Madhu Mantena) |
| Amit P. Singh | line producer (as Amit Kumar Raj) |
| Allu Sirish | co-producer |
Music by
| A.R. Rahman | music |
Cinematography by
| Ravi K. Chandran | director of photography |
Film Editing by
| Anthony |
Production Design by
| Sunil Babu |
Art Direction by
| Sunil Babu |
| Samir Chanda |
| Sandeep Sharad Ravade |
| Vaishnavi Reddy |
Set Decoration by
| Mukul Saraogi | Set Logistics |
Costume Design by
| Arjun Bhasin |
| Uma Biju |
Makeup Department
| Walter Dorairaj | hair |
Production Management
| Mashkoor Chowdhry | production supervisor |
| Pooja Gupta | production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
| Nazneen Bhatia | second second assistant director |
| Vikas Chandra | assistant director |
| Hisham Chotani | second second assistant director |
| Tess Joseph | first assistant director |
| Sonia Kanwar | second second assistant director (as Sonia Nemawarkar) |
| Neha Kaul | second assistant director |
| Sadiq Khan | second assistant director |
| Chetana Kowshik | first assistant director |
| Aditya Mandke | third assistant director |
| Himanshu Powdwal | third assistant director |
| G.P. Raju | associate director |
| Kapil Sharma | first assistant director |
| Vinay Waikul | first assistant director |
Sound Department
| Shalini Agarwal | location sound / sound assistant |
| James Bailey | foley artist |
| Sajjan Choudhary | foley artist |
| Subir Kumar Das | sound re-recording mixer associate |
| Anup Dev | re-recording mixer |
| Amrit Pritam Dutta | sound designer |
| Arunav Dutta | sound editor |
| Jayant Haldar | assistant mixing engineer |
| Sanjay Kurian K. | sound recordist |
| Irfan Mohammad Khan | boom operator |
| Mohammed Irfan Khan | boom operator |
| Vijay Kumar | sound editor |
| Goeun Lee | foley editor |
| Nancy Parker | foley artist |
| Resul Pookutty | sound designer |
| Amala Popuri | additional production sound mixer |
| Kunal Rajan | foley editor |
| Sourabh Ratnu | dialogue supervisor |
| Geordy Sincavage | foley mixer |
| Justin W. Walker | additional foley editor |
| Steve Neal | foley editor (uncredited) |
Special Effects by
| Prasad Patel | special effects compositor |
Visual Effects by
| Vikas Agarwal | Motion Graphic Artist |
| Ritesh Aggarwal | compositor |
| Shrinath Agrawal | modeling artist |
| Faheem Ahmed | compositor |
| Swapnil Ambre | digital compositor |
| Praveen Bareria | digital compositor |
| Yogesh Bhavsar | rigging artist |
| Vivian Britto | compositor: Song Latoo |
| Goolzar Buchia | fx artist |
| Satyendra Chaturvedi | paint artist |
| Santosh Choudhary | smoke artist |
| Michael D’Sa | visual effects producer |
| Danish Davis | digital compositor |
| Abhijit De | lighting artist / modeler |
| Amit Desai | technical director |
| Pete Draper | title designer |
| Faheem | smoke artist |
| Rohan Gala | digital intermediate line producer |
| Somesh Ghosh | digital compositor |
| Anish Holla | render wrangler |
| Rohinton Irani | tracking and matchmoving |
| Avnish Jha | senior texture artist |
| Ashutosh Khandelwal | render wrangler/render support |
| Swapnil Kulkarni | roto artist |
| Abhijeet Lamture | texturing artist |
| Nilesh S. Lokhande | roto artist |
| Debabrata Maity | digital compositor |
| Sameer Malik | digital compositor |
| Stephen Mascarenhas | head of production visual effects |
| Ian McFadyen | CG supervisor |
| Vishal Mehta | texturing artist |
| Aziz Merchant | roto artist |
| Biswal Miraj | modeling/texturing artist |
| Vamsi Krishna Mudraboina | vfx: environment artist / visual effects artist |
| Rahul Mullick | visual effects |
| Abhijit Mulye | lead matte painter |
| Vikas Surajbali Nag | digital compositor: Prime Focus |
| Sunny Nair | matte painter |
| Sachin Paranjpe | visual effects lead |
| Prasad Patel | compositor |
| Gauri Patil | digital compositor |
| Amol Pawar | rotoscope artist |
| Jimmy Philip | lead compositor |
| Virendra Prajapati | online editor |
| Tuhin Rana | digital compositor: Prime Focus Ltd. |
| Reupal D. Rawal | visual effects supervisor |
| Ramsai Rayanapati | vfx sequence supervisor |
| Jagdishwar Renkuntla | visual effects artist |
| Chandrachur Roy | motion graphics artist |
| Mazdiar Santoke | digital compositor |
| Rohit Sardesai | visual effects artist |
| Dilish Shetty | digital compositor |
| Vaidehi Shinde | matte painter |
| Mayank Shrivastava | visual effects artist |
| Raghvendra Shrivastava | compositor |
| Avdesh Shukla | compositor |
| Mandeep Singh | compositor: prime focus |
| Sharanjeet Singh | visual effects artist |
| Nitesh Sutrave | digital compositor |
| Merzin Tavaria | visual effects supervisor |
| Yogendra Kumar Tonke | senior modeler / senior texture artist / senior texture painter |
| Parikshat Tyagi | paint artist (as Parikshit Tyagi) |
| Sumit Verma | animator |
| Yatin Vij | visual effects coordinator |
| Vamsi Krishna Mudraboina | digital matte painting artist (uncredited) / digital matte supervisor (uncredited) |
Stunts
| Peter Hein | action coordinator |
| Stun Shiva | action coordinator |
Camera and Electrical Department
| Piyush Acharya | jimmy jib operator |
| Archana Borhade | assistant camera |
| Piyush Ghosh | camera operator d |
| Amol Gole | still photographer |
| Neha Parti Matiyani | first assistant camera |
| Manush Nandan | associate cameraman / first assistant camera |
| Vinayak Radhakrishnan | Steadicam operator |
| Karan B. Rawat | first assistant camera (as Karan Bahadur Rawat) |
| Deval Samanta | gaffer |
| Prakash Shetty | gaffer |
| Bobby Singh | additional photography |
Costume and Wardrobe Department
| Arjun Bhasin | … | costumes |
| Meenakshi Budhrani | … | wardrobe supervisor |
| Priyanka Mundada | … | wardrobe supervisor |
| Madhura Roy | … | stylist |
Editorial Department
| Rohan Desai | colorist / digital intermediate supervisor |
| Antara Lahiri | assistant editor |
| Nishant Radhakrishnan | first assistant editor |
| T.S. Suresh | assistant editor |
Location Management
| Dinesh Pawar | location assistant |
| Paul van der Ploeg | location manager: namibia |
Music Department
| Pallikonda Adrushta Deepak | additional programmer: score (as Deepak P.A.) / additional programmer: songs (as Deepak P.A.) / additional song mixer (as Deepak P.A.) / recording engineer (as Deepak P.A.) |
| Kazimir Boyle | composer: additional music (as Kaz Boyle) |
| Suzanne D’Mello | playback singer |
| Benny Dayal | playback singer |
| Shreya Ghoshal | playback singer |
| Prasoon Joshi | lyricist |
| Kartik | playback singer |
| Javed Khan | playback singer |
| T.R. Krishnachetan | music programmer & sound engineer (as T.R. Krishna Chetan) |
| Pravin Mani | playback singer |
| Sonu Nigam | playback singer |
| K.J. Singh | song mix engineer |
| H. Sridhar | song mix engineer / song recording engineer |
| Vinayak Vijayan | Additional Music Editor |
| Kavita Baliga | playback singer (uncredited) |
Transportation Department
| Pierre Roos | transport manager: Namibia |
Other crew
| Prakash Bharadwaj | dialogue coach |
| Deepak Gawade | production manager |
| Aman Gill | head of domestic distribution |
| Geeta Kapoor | choreographer |
| Ahmed Khan | choreographer |
| Alnoor Merchant | digital campaign |
| Mahesh Ramanathan | international distribution |
| Dhairya Roy | international distribution |
| Gwen Swart | production coordinator: namibia |
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