More on Asin Thottumkal

Asin, one of the most prominent leading actresses of South Indian Cinema, is said to have signed two new films in Bollywood, even before her first Hindi film Ghajini opposite Aamir Khan hits the theatres.

Reports say that this Malayalee actress has agreed to star in Vipul Shah's London Dreams, in which she will be paired opposite Salman Khan. She has also signed a film to be directed by Priyadarshan opposite Akshay Kumar. However, official confirmation is yet to come. Meanwhile, rumors have it that the release date of Ghajini has changed from October 2 to a later day. Anyway, Asin has already turned one of the hottest newcomers with a couple of films with Bollywood big boys.

After a number of critically and commercially successful films, she received her second South Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in her second Tamil film, Ghajini in 2005. She played the lead female roles in two consecutive top grossers, Ghajini being her biggest commercial success to date.

Ghajini, the original Tamil film’s plot

Sanjay Ramaswamy (Surya) is a rich businessman who owns a cellular phone company named Air Voice and the events surrounding his relationship with Kalpana (Asin).

Kalpana, an ad model goes around telling her crew that she is the love interest of Sanjay. She does this in spite of her having never met him. She goes to the extent of giving an interview about her relationship to a popular magazine. Sanjay comes to hear about this through the media and wants to settle scores with her. On his way, he catches a fleeting glimpse of a young woman (who happens to be Kalpana) helping handicapped children to cross a street. It is love at first sight for Sanjay. He moves on to confront Kalpana at her advertisement studio. He is pleasantly surprised to realize that she is the same helpful woman he saw a while ago. He chooses to hide the fact from her that he is Sanjay, calling himself as Manohar. Kalpana eventually falls in love with him.

On a train to Mumbai, Kalpana saves a group of young girls from abuse by a group of goons led by Lakshman (Pradeep Rawat). Later the goons come to Kalpana's house for revenge. Incidentally, Sanjay arrives there and fights the goons, but during fight Kalpana is murdered. The irony is that Kalpana never knows that he is Sanjay. Lakshman then strikes the downcast Sanjay on his head severely with a metal rod. Sanjay survives the blow, but suffers from a lapse of memory. He cannot remember anything that happened more than 15 minutes back. He frequently has flashbacks of Kalpana's murder. He determines to take revenge on Kalpana's murderers. The rest of the story is about how Sanjay, along with a medical college student, Chitra (Nayantara), goes about finding Lakshman and his gang.