Things I learned from Ghajini
1. When your girlfriend is killed, and the only thing you remember is the last word (which doesn't seem like a word, so you figure it must be a name) she uttered before she died, then you must go around killing people until you find (and kill) someone who has the name.
2. When you are a cop chasing a running bus with a killer in it, the killer is bound to get off the bus without you knowing it, or the bus stopping (or may be you keep chasing the bus through a few stops but forget to check who got off)! Oh yeah, and the killer suffers from short term memory loss.
3. When you lose your memory, you start writing stuff in English, even though you preferred Hindi before.
4. When a seemingly tough cop catches a dangerous killer, he doesn't call for help to arrest him or does anything of that sort. Instead he gets overwhelmingly interested in the killer's two year old personal diary, which talks about the killer's love story - not even remotely connected with the murder.
5. When you suffer from short term memory loss, you must carry a camera all the time, which beeps every 15mins for no apparent reason! O, and the camera must also be intelligent enough to know when is not a good time to beep.
6. When all you do is play pranks with people you know, you can convince the whole world that you are dating one of the top business tycoons of the country, even if you have never even seen him!
7. For about a year, you are dating a guy who aspires to be a model, who has never done a shoot before, whose only source of income is any shoot you arrange for him, who never really does a shoot now, who wears all the top branded clothes all the time, appears at a party in a BMW as one of the biggest business tycoons in the country before hundreds of people and writes a 5 lakh rupee check in charity. You never smell something fishy. How dumb are you!
8. When you think over the night, and 'decide' that you love an aspiring model, you realize you don't need your jewelery any more and so, sell it all so that you can buy an Ambassador to fulfil your oath to own three Ambassadors just as your father once did. Can you BE more weird?
9. Yes you can. You, out of the blue, win a high class apartment in one of the best localities in Mumbai - from a cell phone company whose MD, as the world is aware, is your boyfriend! And when your real boyfriend needs money for his mother's treatment, you choose to sell the Ambassador (not the apartment or anything else you own) for the money!
10. It is very easy to have a huge Polaroid camera (or whatever it is called) hanging from your shoulder on the inside of your jacket and at the same time, fight ten guys, all of whose full time job is to fight. (Ghajini reminds me of Rajini!!)
11. When you attend a new years party late evening, propose to your girfriend later, then meet her next morning at a romantic location next to the sea, and then celebrate her positive reply to your proposal, you can still make it to work on time to find that your breakfast meeting scheduled for 11:30AM is cancelled, so you can have brunch with Mr. X. You must be Rajini!
12. The lead model of a well enough doing advertizing agency travels from Mumbai to Goa alone in the night in a Second Seating compartment of a train.
13. When you go to a library to refer to newspaper archives, and you find what you needed, you can have the paper.
14. You are allowed to kill as many people as you want when you suffer from short term memory loss. You can always go back and play with kids in an orphanage.