The document provides an overview of the Bollywood film '3 Idiots,' directed by Rajkumar Hirani, which follows three engineering students navigating their academic and personal lives at the Imperial College of Engineering. The story emphasizes the importance of pursuing one's passion over societal expectations and critiques the traditional education system that prioritizes rote learning. The film's main themes include friendship, self-discovery, and the significance of understanding knowledge to achieve true success.

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“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.

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PLOT
The film begins with the entry of three students named Raju Rastogi, Farhan Qureshi,
Ranchoddas Shymaldas 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.
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.
Rancho tells them to evaluate his own passion to gain success in life. Then Farhan and Raju tell

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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. 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.

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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.

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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. He was the narrator of the
movie and Ranchos’ friend. According to his fathers’ wish he admitted in engineering college
instead of became a wild life photographer. But finally he realized about his passion and became
a wild life 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 Shasraduddhe 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.

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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 Ranchhodas Shyamaldas Chanchad and many more.

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STRUCTURE
The movie followed a regular predictable story line. This a comedy-drama type film.
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Every person behind the camera gives his/her best to this film. Specially director Hiarani does a
magnificent job by representing this story perfectly. This movie is shoted in India. C. K.
Muraleedharans’ cinematography 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.

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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”.

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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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