Ghajini is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language psychological thriller film written and directed by A. R. Murugadoss and produced by Allu Aravind, Tagore Madhu and Madhu Mantena. The score and soundtrack are composed by A. R. Rahman.
It is a remake of AR Murugadoss's own 2005 Tamil film of the same name. It became the highest-grossing Indian film of that year and the first to cross the ₹100 crore mark domestically, creating the Bollywood 100 Crore Club.[5] It stars Aamir Khan, Asin and Jiah Khan in lead roles while Tinnu Anand, Pradeep Rawat and Riyaz Khan (in his Hindi debut and remains the only Hindi movie he has worked) essay supporting roles. The film was inspired from Christopher Nolan's 2000 neo-noir film Memento.[6][7] And the comedy plot was inspired by the 1951 British film Happy Go Lovely.[citation needed]
The film explores the life of a rich businessman who develops anterograde amnesia following a violent encounter in which his love interest, a model named Kalpana, was killed. He tries to avenge the killing with the aid of photographs from a Polaroid Instant camera and permanent tattoos on his body.[8] Aamir Khan's character was featured in a 3D video game titled Ghajini – The Game, which is based on the movie.[9] On release it became the highest-grossing movie of all time until it was beaten by another movie, 3 Idiots (also starring Khan) the following year. Ghajini's paid preview collections were ₹27 million (US$420,000).[10]