2. Movie Review : 3 Idiots
Introduction :
3 Idiots is a bollywood comedy-drama film edited and directed by Rajkumar
Hirani and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The film is constructed by Vinod
Chopra Film production. Casted by Amir Khan, R.Madhavan, Sharman Joshi,
Boman Irani, Kareena Kapoor and more. The story of the movie is loosely
adapted from the novel ‘Five Point Someone’ by Chetan Bhagat. The story in the
film mainly happens at famous engineering college of India named Imperial
College of Engineering. It is the highest grossing bollywood film for all time. It is
also the first Indian movie which is officially released on youtube.
3. Plot :
The film begins with the entry of three students named Raju Rastogi, Farhan
Qureshi, Ranchoddas Shyamaldas Chanchad who share a room in a hostel at the
Imperial College of Engineering, one of the best colleges in India. Then they face
mandatory ragging session in hostel by senior student. Rancho handle the situation
very smartly. Rancho always believes in his heart and likes to study experimentally.
He always tells his friends not to learn by memory, to learn by heart and
experimentally. On the other hand, Chatur always keeps himself busy with study
from book . So, his class performance is better than Rancho.
4. Chatur studies only for better grade and better future but Rancho studies to
earn knowledge and give something to people. The dean of Imperial College
of Engineering Professor Viru Shahastrabuddhe called by short name ‘Virus’
always tries to put pressure to his students and tells them to study hard for
better grade and build up their career. From this view, Chatur becomes the
favourite student of Virus. Virus tells Ranchos’ friend to keep distance from
Rancho but his attempts become fail to do this. Virus labels Rancho and his
friends as ‘idots’ . Ranchos’ friend Farhan is studying engineering to pursue
his fathers’ wishes instead of his own wish to become a wildlife photographer
and Raju is studying to raise his familys’ fortunes.
5. Rancho tells them to evaluate his own passion to gain success in life. Then
Farhan and Raju tell Rancho to propose Virus daughter Pia. They go to Virus
house and make fun. Virus see Raju and call him office next day. The next day,
Virus threatens to expel Raju unless he squeals on Rancho. Raju can’t handle this
situation and jumps from third floor. Rancho and Farhan try their best to recover
Raju. Raju takes an unexpected approach for an interview for a corporate job and
Farhan decides to pursue his love of photography.
When Raju confirmed his job, Virus decided to make the final exam as hard as
possible so that Raju is unable to graduate. Pia can’t take it easy. So, pia steal
Viruss’ office key and give that to Rancho. Virus get this matter and expel Rancho
with his friends. In the meanwhile, Pias’ elder sister and daughter of Virus Mona
who is pregnant goes into labour.
6. A heavy storm cuts all power and traffic. Then she instructs Rancho to deliver the
baby in the college common room via VOIP. When the baby born, it doesn’t make any
sound of cry. Then Rancho resuscitates the baby.After that, Virus realizes his mistake
and gives the ‘Astronaut Pen’, the symbol of excellence to Rancho. He also allows
them to seat for final exam. Their story is framed as intermittent flashbacks from the
present day, ten years after Chatur promised to become more successful than
Rancho. But, Rancho make a distance with his friends after final exam where he
becomes the student of year. Ten years later, Farhan and Raju with Chatur find their
friend Rancho as a scientist where his real name is Phunsukh Wangdu. Actually,
Chaturs’ business company is under contract with scientist Wangdu. Then Chatur
realize his fault and ends the movie.
7. Themes :
The movie represents a real story of our society. The main theme of the movie is
“learn anything by heart to achieve highest level of the goal”. There is also focuses
on our ordinary education system. In the movie, Imperial College of Engineering
follow a poor education system. For this reason students of that college try to
achieve better grade learning their lesson by only memorizing. The symbol of
memorizing without understanding represent by Chatur who has a good career but
the symbol of memorizing by heart and experiment represent by Rancho who
achieves the highest position of career. This is the theme of the movie.
8. Characters :
The most important role and main character was played by Amir Khan as Rancho
He completed his graduation from Imperial College of Engineering and make a
distance from his friends. Then their friends find Rancho who was intelligent and
had brilliant methods to be successful and content in life. He fought against the
wrong system of teaching and was often punished for this. But finally he achieved
the highest level of success and became a scientist. R. Madhavan was played as
Farhan Qureshi who was Ranchos’ friend.
9. He was the narrator of the movie and Ranchos’ friend. According to his fathers’
wish he admitted in engineering college instead of became a wildlife
photographer. But finally he realized about his passion and became a wildlife
photographer. Sharman Joshi was played as Raju Rastogi who was Ranchos’
another friend. He came from a poor family and he wanted to be an engineer to
improve their condition. Boman Irani was played as Dr. Viru Sahasrabuddhe
better known as “Virus” who was the director of the college. He was strict and rude
in his character. He was highly competitive too. He put huge pressure to achieve
better to his student to get better career.
10. Omi Vaidya played the role as Chatur Ramalingram better known as “Silencer”.
He always used to keep busy with study to get better grade. So, he was the ideal
student from Virus view. Kareena Kapoor played the minor role as Pia
Shasrabuddhe who was Virus’ younger daughter. Rahul Kumar played the role as
Man Mohan better known as “Millimeter” who was the servant of college hostel.
Other characters were played such as Mona Singh as Mona Shasrabuddhe,
Sanjay Lafont as Suhas Tandon, Javed Jaffrey as the real Ranchoddas Shyamaldas
Chanchad and many more.
11. Structure :
The movie followed a regular predictable storyline. This a comedy-drama type film.
CINEMATOGRAPHY Every person behind the camera gives his/her best to this film.
Specially director Hirani does a magnificent job by representing this story perfectly.
This movie is shooted in India. C. K. Muraleedharan’s cinematographer is awesome.
Shantanu Moitra’s music may sound plain ordinary to ears, but when viewed on
screen, the score is just perfect. This credit also goes to choreographer Avit Dias.
12. Language and Dialogue :
The language of the movie is Hindi. Dialogue of the movie is directed by Hirani and
Joshi that is also perfect and interesting . All artists try to give their best voice and
facial expression. LESSON We can learn many things from this movie such as
passion, education system, study style etc. The moral would be “Discover yourself
and learn anything by heart to achieve highest level of the goal”.
13. Conclusion :
At last from my perspective I would like to say this movie is emotional,
entertaining, enlightening. The film has tremendous youth appeal and feel-good
factor to work in a big way. So, everyone should watch this movie.
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