ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author suggests that suppression and forgetfulness are as much a part of the seeking and the understanding of each of US as a human being, as what is remembered, what is highlighted, what is identified with. He adopts Daya Krishna's thinking in terms of civilizations, and discusses two films, Western (American) and Indian, as "representatives" of the two civilizations and the cultural materials they are made of. The films are Christopher Nolan's Memento (2000) and A. R. Murugadoss' Ghajini (2008). Ghajini is an intriguing movie, as it attempts to relocate Memento's narrative of a short-term memory loss, of a whole living-cycle ending every fifteen minutes, in India instead of America. However, cross-cultural translation is not just a matter of geographical and lingual substitution, in the present case Bombay in place of Los Angeles, and Hindi instead of English.
