Ghajini
2005 3h 2m movie Film India

Ghajini

கஜினி

Synopsis

கஜினி

After being hit by an iron rod, Sanjay Ramaswamy, a business tycoon, suffers from anterograde amnesia. He is unable to remember anything beyond fifteen minutes. Under such circumstances, he sets out on a quest to find the people who were responsible for his lover Kalpana's murder.

Audience Engagement

70
Reviews
86th
Review-volume percentile
90th
Popularity percentile

70 audience reviews — more than 86% of India films in our index.

Popularity sits at the 90th percentile among India films.

Titles With Overlapping Themes

Films and series that share thematic tags with Ghajini. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.

Action + Romance in India

119 India titles in our catalog blend the Action and Romance genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Ghajini itself).

The 2004–2006 India Window

Ghajini holds position #39 of 152 India films in the 2004–2006 window, below highlighted by audience rating.

  1. Umrao Jaan
    #1

    Umrao Jaan

    ★ 8.2 · 2006
  2. Black
    #2

    Black

    ★ 7.7 · 2005
  3. Thanmathra
    #3

    Thanmathra

    ★ 7.7 · 2005
  4. Pudhupettai
    #4

    Pudhupettai

    ★ 7.7 · 2006
  5. The Fall
    #5

    The Fall

    ★ 7.6 · 2006
  6. Kaazhcha
    #6

    Kaazhcha

    ★ 7.6 · 2004
  7. Anniyan
    #7

    Anniyan

    ★ 7.5 · 2005
  8. Classmates
    #8

    Classmates

    ★ 7.5 · 2006

The 2000s India Landscape

Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in India, 454 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Ghajini premiered alongside 57 others.

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Position in Catalog

Released alongside 57 other India films in 2005.

The 515th India title from India we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1913).

Our India catalog contains 1,983 titles in total (1,904 films).

Thematic Fingerprint

Tags on Ghajini, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.

Distinctive themes · rare across catalog
  • nonlinear timeline · 4
  • short term memory loss · 3
Recurring themes · common across catalog
  • tragic love · 17
  • memory loss · 13
  • tragic event · 7
  • injustice · 6
Mainstream tags · widely used across catalog
  • revenge · 210
  • murder · 155

Reception Benchmarks

6.9
TMDB Rating
70
Audience Reviews
Well Received
Critical Tier

Ranked #608 of 1,983 India films indexed here (69th percentile by TMDB audience score).

Rating is +0.5 points above the India average of 6.4/10.

Among India Action productions specifically: #146 of 637 (top 23%).

Production Details

Primary CountryIndia
Original LanguageTamil
Production CompaniesSri Saravanaa Creaations
Runtime3h 2m
Release DateOctober 14, 2005
IMDbtt0449951