Review of 3 Idiots - more than a review.

Review of 3 Idiots - more than a review.

Prologue- Just a couple of days back I happened to read an article on how 2 kids aged about 11 years died committing suicide as they could not beat the demands set on them.

Cry, Baby Bunting,
Daddy's gone a hunting
to fetch a little rabbit skin,
To wrap the Baby Bunting in.
Cry, Baby Bunting.

Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been?
I've been to London to look at the Queen.
Pussy cat, pussy cat, what did you there?
I frightened a little mouse under her chair.

Three blind mice. Three blind mice.
See how they run. See how they run.
They all ran after the farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife.
Did you ever see such a thing in your life
As three blind mice?

Jack & Jill went up the hill,
To fetch a pile of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the king’s horses and king’s men,
Could not put Humpty Dumpty together again

Have you ever imagined how we were brought up learning wicked rhymes, Yes I say wicked because look at the words used in these rhymes, they are fantastic in giving a proper rhyme like wall-fall, wife-knife etc but what do they convey? I am sorry I look at it this way; we are teaching the so called future generation about “hunting rabbit skin, frightening, carving knives, cutting off tails, falling from the hill, telling lies”, does they sound any ethical ?.

Luckily we just knew to mug and never really went in depth to understand why these rhymes were taught to us? And today I came to know the exact meaning of ‘mug’ –attack, assault; rob J J ... Fortunately our generation had at least 2-4 kids in a family and this helped us escaping micro supervision while studying. But now these rhymes are imparted into their brains by showing actions to the kids like falling down from the hill, laughing after lying J etc.

Now in the so called Y-gen, kids of age 4 to 5 years are growing up in acute speed, whether it’s a most complicated mobile phone or child lock in cars, they know how to operate and at times they end up taking training sessions for the grown ups. Parents competing with the kids ensure that they are not left behind in training the kids to face the corrupt competitive world. They train the kids as if they are preparing them to take an entrance exam for IIT or an IIM or may be sending them along with chandrayaana for a moon mission.

This is the pedestal subject matter of the movie 3 Idiots, deals with our Indian education system, pressure implied on kids/teens, setting up huge expectations and the decision making of the younger generation. It also ensures to pass away an important message to curb the most lethal act in one’s life -Suicide.

Film starts on a different note and one would never realize it may give you a serious message as it progresses, Yes the movie starts with showing a young man stopping the operating flight and almost hijacking a taxi, showing 3 million sperms as they compete to hit the target..and a ragging scene displaying different colors of inner wears of juniors requesting their seniors to accept it has a gift “Jahapana e tofa kabool karo”….

3 Idiots is limply inspired by Chetan Bhagat’s novel Five Point Someone (FPS). The story is of three friends Farhan Quereshi (Maddy), Raju Rastogi (Sharman) and Ranchordas Shamaldas Chanchad (Rancho-Aamir) who study at Imperial Engineering College. Rancho is a rebel and believes that acquiring knowledge is not just about the usual education one receives. He influences Raju and Farhan to follow his subversive ways much to the disappointment of Viru Sahastrabudhhe, alias Virus (Boman Irani), the director of the college and also the father of Pia (Kareena Kapoor). Pia is youngest the youngest daughter of Virus and an aspiring doctor

Raju hates the thoughts of Rancho and believes that he has to follow the likes of Chatur Ramalingam (Omi Vaidya) to take care of his ailing father and his unmarried sister. Raju departs with Rancho & Farhan and join hands with the silencer-Chatur to become his room mate. Chatur is a character which we all have seen in college days and he is no different, a studios guy and believes only in impressing lecturers. True to his character, Rancho alters the speech of Chatur to get back Raju, where he alters words like chamtakar to balatkar etc…The speech is express amusement and leaves with aches in your abdomen. Excerpts of speech “Utthamum dadhdadaath paadam - Madhyam paadam thuchuk chuk - Ghanisthah thud thudi paadam - Surr surri praan gatakam”

Film takes off well and never deviates from the plot- Two friends in search of their friend The movie is told in alternating series of flashbacks and present day sequences. The performance of all the actors Aamir, Maddy, Sharman and Kareena are mind blowing but Omi and Boman steals the show with their incredible performances. The comic timing of all the actors is superb and deserves ‘pat on back’ for Raju Hirani for proving that he is the unassailable king of comedy films with a serious message –Educate don’t train.

Combo of Raju Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra of Munna Bhai fame yet again delivers the paramount movie with lightened emotions and a beautiful message-yet a laugh riot.
Screenplay -Abhijat Joshi and Rajkumar Hirani
Soundtrack is composed by Shantanu Moitra with lyrics penned by Swanand Kirkire.

PS: Did I miss about fungsuk wangdu’s character? Go watch it yourself to know more.
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Thanks,
Prasanna Muzumdar
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