i have just walked out of the cinema n im dying to record my judgment on "3 idiots".
"The film goes by name, it's idiotic".trust me,if not read on.( read on, even if you do... you will know why)
to start with, the film drew "inspiration" from "five point some one" , a novel of its kind by chetan bhagat.
the novel:
for those who are not acquainted with the novel, here is an insight to it. (hey, i wish i could rhapsodize the entire novel for you. but you know i can't. for master pieces can be made only once.) it's a story of 3 idiots who make their way to IIT Delhi, Hari,Ryan and Raju(I don't remember the name of this character from the novel,so used the name from the film).
ryan is impeccable.born affluent, bored of usual system of education and bereft of parental attention,he loves machines more than books.
hari, "FATSO" is a usual happy go lucky.this character of the novel to which chetan is personally associated with, is a usual teenager from a middle class family.not to mention ,hari is stumped by the charisma of Ryan right on their first day of their ragging.
raju is more or less the same raju as you see in the movie. this guy is born in to a family bitten by poverty and is dying to "make it big" in life for his family.
prof cherian is HOD of the mechanical engineering dept, a martinet. you can imagine him as AB in mohabbatein.
now the story. the 3 guys become good friends and do all possible mess in the campus. they boze, bunk the classes, copy assignments, .. name it.you must read the novel to experience this. in short "they break the rules"
all the three dud in the exams with a cgpa of 5.dejected raju leaves the group after the first year to join a league of crammers, only to join them back after an year.
anecdotes of campus hangouts pass by.at the end of third year the three of them boze every day, screwing up each semester. hari falls in love with cherian's daughter. and one day,he is caught by cherian red-handed screwing his daughter. the drama reaches a peak when the group is indicted of burgling the semester's test paper and hari lies to have received the "keys of the office from cherian's daughter" in front of the faculty, on being threatened of rustication.
neha, unhappy about the calumny, breaks up with hari. the friends are suspended for a semester. it takes 2 months to recoup for the defeated raju, after he jumps off the ninth floor of the building (in to a pool).
the group finally makes their way out of this ramble and patches up for the lost semester by working under a professor who understands the psyche of students well.
at the end, raju and hari settle down in corporates while ryan prefers to stay back in iiT to work out an intern under the prof.
the movie:
the film was meant to be about 3 idiots and not two. . now, c'mon you can't be five pointer by topping a class.
aamir has snatched every positive trait from each character of the novel and knitted his own. he plays a ryan,that's understandable at first gaze.but then he messes with HOD , flirts with his daughter.
damn man, this was hari's job, i mean madhavan was meant to fall for kareena.hey, hey .. but its not that the movie downplays the crux of the novel, its just the unnecessary apotheosis of aamir khan that makes me decry.
what on earth makes the director of the movie call a guy who tops every semester, has innovative streak and stands out to become the best student of the institute 'an idiot'? "laugh at you, hirani". i suppose the college was co-ed and no co-ed college allows a student to bathe bare in open air. that's disgusting. :)
put that a side. let's say he was called an idiot for his bohemian attitude and messing up with the profs.
the film would have been at least an acceptable package if it would have been wound up by three quarters of the total length. protagonist does an obstetrician with a vacuum cleaner... woo ooh ha ha.. height of 'idiocy' . the title seemed apt now. i guess this makes sense in times of such emergency but the director drags it up to a ridiculous length and "all is well" baby kicks are wacky...... enough i thought.
and finally the phuksukh episode, came as a special package adding woes to the already prolonged film. it just came as an embarrassment that
despite all such flaws, i say its a good movie.........eeks i make a u turn to my interpretation now.. here is why i do that, its becoz of aamir. a man nearing 40s manages to look like a teenager. can you imagine? yes he does and he did it well, per se. though he dons all possible positive aspects, he carries them off with ease and the hollowness created in other characters of the play has been carefully filled up.for example, madhavan is diverted from the main track ,as a guy disinterested in engineering and some one aspiring to be a wild life photographer. to wind up the movie is a hilarious package with certain drag-ons but on the whole is worth to watch.
go for it.
