2008 was a year when quite a few newcomers made a mark in their very first film. Actors like Anushka, Asin, Adah and Prachi Desai made a thumping impression while Genelia D’Souza saw a revival in her career with ‘Jaane Tu Jaane Naa’. Katrina Kaif got her hits but there wasn’t a single performance that could make the cut into the Top-10 of the year while big guns like Priyanka Chopra, Aishwarya Rai, Bipasha Basu and Kajol continued to reign. Joginder Tuteja looks at some of the best performances by …

When Jiah Khan signed a big budget film opposite Aamir Khan, she was ecstatic. Aamir who was bowled over by her acting skills in her debut film had chosen her over Kangna Ranaut. Ayesha Takia and even Priyanka Chopra. She knew she had touched gold when she signed on Ghajini.
But Jiah was in for a very huge disappointment. Her big dreams have come crashing down as Aamir has kept her completely out of Ghajini’s promotions and publicity. In fact, rubbing salt on her wounds, Aamir is going berserk promoting Jiah’s …

NEW DELHI: No pain, no gain. The saying couldn’t be more true for Aamir Khan and the team that painstakingly sculpted those eight-pack-abs, snipped up four different hairstyles
and designed the actor’s varied looks in “Ghajini” that have become a rage among his fans.
“It took Aamir 13 months of workout, with a daily regime of about four hours, to achieve the next to impossible look for ‘Ghajini’,” Satyajit ‘Satya’ Chaurasia, who trained the actor for the film, told IANS.
“He used to get tired exercising and sometimes even used to shriek …

Not meant for the faint hearted
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Starring: Aamir Khan, introducing Asin, Jiah Ali Khan and Pradeep Rawat
Director: A.R. Murugadoss
Sanjay Singhania (Aamir) after being hit on head suffers from a short term memory loss. He cannot recollect anything beyond 15 minutes. He has various phone numbers and names tattooed on his body all hinting at one thing, seek revenge for the murder of his girlfriend, Kalpana (Asin). The only clue he has is the name that he remembers his dying girlfriend uttered in his ears – Ghajini. What …

Aamir Khan starrer Ghajini is touted as the big Christmas release, but it has a longer story to tell than is considered healthy for mutilplexes. The action-thriller’s playing time of three hours makes it the second-longest film of the year after Jodhaa Akbar, but the producer is unperturbed.
“It’s not the length. It’s the performance. You could have a really boring two-hour film. On the other hand you could’ve a really gripping film that’s three hours long,” producer Madhu Mantena, who also co-produced the super hit Tamil version of Ghajini with …

The buzz is that debutante Asin is very happy about her introductory Hindi track in the upcoming ‘Ghajini’ which has been tuned by A.R. Rahman.
Reportedly Asin’s introductory song in the Tamil original had become quite a rage too. Now she’s all set to get lucky with this one.
In the Hindi version the song has been shot by noted ad filmmaker Ravi Udhyavan with inputs from none other than perfectionist Aamir Khan.
Udhyavan had shot a few commercials with Aamir earlier and he did the song like a music video with an …