Cast: Aamir Khan, Sharman Joshi, R. Madhavan, Boman Irani & Kareena Kapoor Music: Shanatanu Moitra
Writers: Rajkumar Hirani & Abhijat Joshi
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Duration: 2 hrs, 48 mins.
From the director of the super hit Munna Bhai series, comes another extraordinarily outstanding movie – 3 Idiots. Yes, who can forget the talented and wonderful director Rajkumar Hirani who has two back to back hits to his credit, Munna Bhai M.B.B.S and Lagey Raho Munna Bhai. This is a clean hatrick from him because 3 Idiots will surely go on to be his third successful super-duper hit in a row. There’s not an iota of doubt about that.
3 Idiots is loosely based on writer Chetan Bhagat’s bestseller novel Five Point Someone- The story about three friends who meet in a highly esteemed engineering college of the country, they become room mates, then become the best of friends and always go through many ups & downs that happen in the course of their college life.
The story starts with two friends or should I say two idiots, i.e. Raju (Sharman Joshi) and Farhan (R. Madhavan) who are on a journey in search of their third friend/buddy rather the third idiot Ranchoddas Shyamaldas Chanchad aka Rancho (Aamir Khan) who is in Shimla as informed by their ex class mate Chatur Ramalingam aka Silencer (Omi Vaidya). That special friend of them whom they haven’t seen or heard about since the day they graduated from their college five years ago. The movie goes into flashback starting from their first day in the college and the funny incident in which they (as juniors) are being ragged by their seniors. Raju & Farhan see Rancho for the first time then. Co-incidentally he is also their room mate. Soon they realize that Rancho is a very lively guy who knows how to enjoy life and also make others enjoy it thoroughly. He loves to think and do things that are out of the box. Always has an almost impromptu answer or solution to any kind of a question or a problem and deals with it in an amusing style of his own. The Director of their college Prof. Viru Sahastrabuddhe (Boman Irani) is kind of a psychotic person who blindly believes in his own saying- that life is a race and one should always be first in it, in order to be successful. Raju wanted to be an engineer only to get a decent job and support his poor family that comprised of his mother, his paralyzed father and an unmarried sister. Farhan who always wanted to be a wildlife photographer was forced to do engineering due to pressure from his family. On the other hand, Rancho was the rare kind who wanted to do it only for the love of it.
The first half of the story is quite a roller coaster ride with lot of funny and hilarious incidents but also a pitiable one where the three of them face the suicide of one of their senior students. It also has instances where-in Rancho directly expresses his anguish with regard to the existing education system and the grading method in practice. He also gets to meet Pia (Kareena Kapoor) a doctor-in-progress who is the daughter of their college Director whom he almost rescues her from getting engaged with a silly rich guy. The first half of the story just before the interval ends in a shocker where Raju and Farhan discover that shockingly Ranchordas is a person with another identity but with all the degrees and certificates that actually belonged to Rancho.
The second half of the story again takes us into the flashback showing some serious incidents like the failed suicide attempt by Raju and his recovery from the multiple fractures. Rancho gives Farhan the confidence to convince his parents that his dream is to become an ace photographer and not an engineer, the confidence to Raju to face the interview and get his job. He also gets beaten up by the director for stealing the final exam papers from his staff room which he does for helping his Raju pass his exams. Rancho also manages to help Pia’s elder sister deliver her child on a Ping-Pong table in their campus with some support from Pia who's on the web cam. Rancho leaves the college on the last day after their convocation without returning back in anybody’s life. Relating and connecting to the present mode of the story, Raju and Farhan go on to kidnap Pia from her own marriage in order to get her married to Rancho, whom she loves, when they finally find him in Ladakh (where he actually is). They story as is expected to be, ends on a happy note with the two idiots Raju and Farhan finding the third i.e. Rancho and Pia finding her love. All of them united again after the long gap. As it is said, ‘aal izz well’ that ends well.
The movie has some superb acting by Boman Irani as the director of the college and Omi, a debutant who enacts the character of Silencer. Though Kareena did not have much longer role, she was impressive in her work. Sharman and Madhavan can definitely count this as one of their best career performances. What do I say about Mr. Prefectionist Aamir Khan. Even in a multi-starrer film, he manages to make us feel that he is omni present. He’s undoubtedly the backbone of the movie, the soul of 3 Idiots and truly gets into the skin of the character almost effortlessly.
The dialogues are outstanding especially the sequence in which Rancho muddles up with Silencer’s Teacher’s Day speech is truly hilarious. If Rajkumar Hirani gave us some really wonderful one-liners like “Jaadu ki jhappi” and “Gandhigiri” in the past, them this time he coins another wonderful one as in “Aal izz well” that is used in the movie in many occasions. Music by Shanatanu Moitra is awesome with “Aal izz Well” already becoming a youth anthem and topping the charts, credit to Swanand Kirkire for his amazing lyrics.
A free advice to all of you – please don’t miss to watch 3 Idiots at any cost. It has all the ingredients in it that’s required for it to be a blockbuster hit. Also, not often in your life you get to see a story on celluloid, which manages to touch both your mind and heart and also influence you strongly, in a very positive way. It drives one message very clearly - "Chase Excellence. Success will follow."
Aamir, you really make our film industry proud. Keep rocking!!
Rating: ****3/4
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