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| director = Santhosh P. Jayakumar

| producer = K. E. Gnanavel Raja

| writer = Santhosh P. Jayakumar

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| starring = Arya
Sayyeshaa

| music = Balamurali Balu

| cinematography = Ballu

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| runtime = 137 minutes

| country = India

| language = Tamil

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'Ghajinikanth' is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Santhosh P. Jayakumar and produced by K.E.Gnanavel Raja. The movie stars Arya and Sayyeshaa in the lead roles. It is a remake of the 2015 Telugu film 'Bhale Bhale Magadivoy.' The music for the film is composed by Balamurali Balu. Soon after the film's release, lead actors Arya and Sayyeshaa got married.

Plot



The protagonist, Rajinikanth (Arya), was born in a theatre screening 'Dharmathin Thalaivan', and like one of Rajinikanth's characters in that film, has a forgetful nature. The film doffs its hat at the older film by introducing its protagonist in underwear as he has forgotten to wear pants. This condition of Rajini is a constant source of embarrassment to his parents Ramanathan (Aadukalam Naren) and Lakshmi (Uma Padmanabhan), as they cannot find a suitable match for him. One prospective girl's father Sathyamoorthy (Sampath Raj) insults Rajini because of this. As fate would have it, Rajini ends up falling in love with Sathyamoorthy's daughter Vandhana (Sayyeshaa), but she is unaware of Rajini's forgetfulness. How long can Rajini continue with this facade, especially with Ajay (Lijeesh), a cop who wants to marry Vandhana and is trying to expose him?

Cast



*Arya as Rajinikanth Ramanathan aka Ghajinikanth, the amnesiac protagonist who falls in love with Vandhana

*Sayyeshaa as Vandhana Sathyamoorthy, Rajini's girlfriend who is unaware of his forgetfulness

*Aadukalam Naren as Ramanathan, Rajini's father

*Uma as Lakshmi Ramanathan, Rajini's mother

*Sampath Raj as Sathyamoorthy, Vandhana's father

*Lijeesh as Inspector Ajay, a cop who wants to marry Vandhana

*Rajendran as Rajini's friend

*Karunakaran as Karuna

*Kaali Venkat as Uthaman

*Delhi Ganesh as Rajini's grandfather

*Sulakshana as Rajini's grandmother

*Madhan Bob as Rajini's boss

*Manobala as Kamal Vishwanathan

*K. Sivasankar as Mohan's father

*Venkat Subha as broker

*Linga as policeman

*Rahul Thatha as area friend

*Neelima Rani as Gayathri, Vandhana's sister-in-law

*K. S. G. Venkatesh as Gayathri's father

*Dubbing Janaki as Kamal's mother

*Jangiri Madhumitha as Mrs. Uthaman

*Sheela as Gayathri's mother

*Rekha Suresh as Mrs. Kamal Vishwanathan

*Hema Rajkumar

*Karnaa Radha as shopkeeper

*Baba Bhaskar in a special appearance

Production



In October 2015, a Tamil remake of the Telugu film 'Bhale Bhale Magadivoy' (2015) with G. V. Prakash Kumar as the protagonist was announced, but never came to fruition. In late November 2017, Studio Green announced that they would collaborate with filmmaker Santhosh P. Jayakumar for a comedy film starring Arya and Sayyeshaa in the lead roles. Titled 'Ghajinikanth', the film was revealed to be a remake of 'Bhale Bhale Magadivoy', and the first look poster had Arya in an ethnic attire resembling a character portrayed by Rajinikanth in the 1988 film, 'Dharmathin Thalaivan'. The title is a portmanteau of the words "Ghajini" and "Rajinikanth", and was titled so because of the forgetful nature of Rajinikanth's character in 'Dharmathin Thalaivan' and Suriya's character in 'Ghajini' (2005). The shoot began with a song sequence shot in Thailand, before the team completed scenes in Chennai. Santhosh was directing this alongside another film 'Iruttu Araiyil Murattu Kuththu' (2018). Shooting ended in 39 days.

Soundtrack



The soundtrack was composed by Balamurali Balu.

Release



Production budget of the film was valued at 8 crore excluding Arya's salary. The satellite rights of the film were sold to STAR Vijay.

Critical reception

'Indian Express' wrote "There are several ways to keep the viewer engaged - it could be through the story, its characters, the writing or the filmmaking. Sadly, Ghajinikanth doesn't tick any of the boxes." 'Times of India' wrote "Despite the film offering great scope for comedy, Ghajinikanth is entertaining only in places." 'Sify' called it "Family-friendly comedy entertainer" and wrote "Overall, Ghajinikanth is a time pass entertainer and you will enjoy watching it with family and friends!"

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