Aah…Three Idiots! Not exactly a story of idiots. Raju (Sharman Joshi) and Farhan (R. Madhavan) might look like idiots at the beginning, but the philosophy of Rancho (Amir Khan) give their idiocy a comedic look. The story shows the lives of engineering college students who have been taught by their parents and teachers that life is a race, those who can’t run fast will be trampled by the world. Reminds me of the serpentine lines of “aspiring” students who just get done with their high schools and gear up to get into medical and engineering schools back in Nepal. After nothing else works, a lot of them end up going abroad. Seriously, how many of these students really want to be engineers and doctors?
Rajkumar Hirani, the creator of the much-acclaimed Munna Bhai series, brings this rib-tickling comedy with his own and Abhijat Joshi’s screenplay who also wrote the screenplay for Munna Bhai. Hirani himself couldn’t get into engineering or medical college and ended up listening to his heart-making films. This might have inspired to make this film where he repeatedly gives the message “follow your heart, follow your heart” through shrewd Rancho. The film mixes philosophy and engineering to give a message to the student populace. “Be photographers, filmmakers, politicians, businessmen but be passionate. “ The film also shows how family financial problems can affect the lives of the children who end up taking subjects that don’t interest them at all. Some even quit through suicides. Along with that, the film slams the Nepali and Indian education system for which students are just “machines,” rather than beings. The teachers bestow a lot of lot of stress to students, but no engineer has ever made a machine to gauge this stress. I remember the class requirements of a lot of colleges, especially in liberal arts colleges, which have to be taken by every student in order to graduate. Pity on my biology major college friends for whom politics, ancient Greek history or catholic studies don’t make sense but they are to be taken.
Rancho’s first encounter with Raju and Farhan shows his cunning character while responding the ragging culture of the senior students to the freshman in Indian and Nepali colleges. Then the audience goes on a roller coaster ride of emotions -- at times about to sob and at times praising the shrewdness of Rancho and chortle. The film gets a turn when Rancho turns out to be going to college for someone else not for being graduating but for knowledge. It seems Rancho has been influenced by Socrates’ theory of specialization, but not exactly talking about his ideal society.
The story, told in flashback by Raju and Farhan, has some idiot scenes like the delivery of the baby using the vacuum machine built by Rancho in no time; however, it embraces no boring scenes or dialogues and keeps the audience glued back in their seats. The plot also shows the reality of some teachers whose classes are founded by definitions rather than the applicability of the study material, whose meager salary makes them to ride bike to come to college to teach and who are ill-treated by their students for their nature. Just like the shrewd dialogues of Munna Bhai, Hirani brings yet another heart touching film, this time with another well-known actor Amir Khan, and his evergreen risible plot.
All in all, the movie is Aal Izz Well just like Rancho's mantra. Released on the day of Christmas, the movie has no relationship with that. But I would like to say this loud although I’m not a philosopher--If you don’t listen to your heart now, after decades when you’ll be looking at the stars, you will realize that you did a mistake for you weren’t courageous enough to speak out your heart now. So follow your heart. The world gives no second chance, you know.
Aah... an idyllic film.
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