Ghajini (2005) happens to be a milestone film in Suriya’s career, introducing him to the Telugu audience for the first time, courtesy Allu Aravind who dubbed it into Telugu. Like the Tamil version, the Telugu dubbed version too was a major success at the box office. And Suriya never looked back in Telugu, with every Tamil film of his simultaneously getting a dubbed release in the two Telugu states.
And now after nearly 19 years, Allu Aravind is considering making a sequel to the film. Suriya confirmed the development in his interaction with a Mumbai-based news portal while promoting his next month release, Kanguva. “After a long time, Allu Aravind garu came up with the idea of Ghajini 2. And he said, ‘Will that be possible?’ I said, ‘Definitely sir. We can think about it’. Talk started and it’s in process,” the actor said.
Speculations are rife that Allu Aravind and Madhu Mantena are keen on making the sequel possible, with an intention to shoot it in Tamil and Hindi simultaneously. While Suriya will lead the Tamil version, the Hindi version will be top-lined by Aamir Khan. It appears that AR Murugadoss, who had done the Tamil version and later went on to remake it in Hindi with Aamir, is keen on working on both versions simultaneously.
In Ghajini, which was inspired from Christopher Nolan’s Memento, a once eminent businessman develops anterograde amnesia due to a head injury he sustains while attempting to save his fiancée Kalpana from getting murdered by a gangster. After that, he sets out to avenge her murder with the aid of photographs from an instant camera and permanent tattoos on his body.
