3 Idiots

Cast : Amir khan, Amir Khan, Amir Khan, Boman Irani

Rating : 3/5

Genre: Comedy

Verdict: Above average film, one time watch, Good but by no means a masterpiece

With 1000's of films based on doctor's lives and medical studies, here is a change with setting in an Engineering College. At-last vastly out numbered engineers found some thing, at least something to relate to! It starts with a highlight of the film, i.e. "Toiletesque Humor". Freshers getting ragged by the seniors in the ECI engineering college. They are stripped to their under garments and paraded! There comes our main character i.e. Rancchoddas Shyamaldas Chanchad A.K.A Rancho.( Amir ) who is a son of a millionaire.  He refuses to bow before the ragging seniors and electrocutes a senior in a fast ingenious way while the senior starts peeing on his door! Peeing is a favorite pastime here and Not in a subtle way!

Can you guess who is the principal of the college? Well, its is Boman Irani , the Virus. He has acted, very well! One can take a man out of theater but not the theater out of man! He is strict, as usual. and hard to bend. Rancho irritates him to the core with his wild but meaningful  theories on teaching and learning.

Rancho befriends two sidekicks...literally sidekicks, Farhan Qurashi( Madhavan) a wannabe Photographer and Raju Rastogi (Sharman Joshi ). Both of them have a limited role of a being Rancho's sidekicks. Farhan's Family is a middle class family which supports him in his study by doing lot of sacrifice. Same is with Raju's family only thing is that he is poor. His father is comically paralyzed and his mom is a typical B&W mom, reminding Raju the current price of okra (Rs.12 / Kg) each time.
Rancho is an intelligent guy (kinda like Goodwill in Goodwill Hunting). He has a motto that "YOU SHOULD ALWAYS DO WHAT EVER YOU LIKE". He helps people out of their mess!

 There is also a Murthy look alike nerd who has a screwed up Hindi. He is a guy who is typical Mugup! He learns everything without understanding. He hates Rancho! Rancho screws him up by replacing chamatkaar (Magic) with Balatkaar (Rape..in subtitles given as screwed!). ..and imagine the rest

There is a very good scene when their 1st Yr results come out. Raju and Farhan come last...they do not find Rancho's name and assume that he has flunked! The become sad for him. But soon they come to know that he has topped the results!!! They become SADDER!!



There is a wedding going on and the three decide to feast free in the wedding.

They go out in a marriage as gatecrashers to find the "lovely" Pia ( Kareena Kapoor). She has a fiance who is just a rich jerk! Rancho just makes her realize that HE not the one. It turns out that this wedding was Pia's sister's Wedding (Mona Singh) and Pia is Virus' daughter!!! Shocking !!! Is it? Wait till you hear this.  Pia is a DOCTOR!!!! Aaaahhhhh! Kareena is the last person on earth who can even be passed off as a doctor! Kambakth IshQ! Pia drives a cute little scooty with a cute little helmet and cute little spects! How cute!!! All three of the gatecrashers get discovered and thrown out! Meanwhile Raju's father gets a stroke of somekind and with no ambulance services ,Rancho gets hold of Pia and her scooty and saves Raju's Father. Pia becomes his friend.

Rancho makes Raju, Farhan and US realise why we fail in some thing. We fail because we dont like what we are doing...So TRUE! Rancho helps Mona singh deliver her baby using his own invented inverter and vacuum pump (DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME)...and becomes virus' friend

At the end of Engineering Rancho dissappears! Raju , Farhan and the Murthy look-alike go on a mission to search and discover his real name WANGDU..and he lives in Ladkh and is inventer of more than 400 patented items! They pull Pia out of her wedding and bring her to ladakh...thats it!

Positives:
1. Humor is good. Students are able to relate themselves to the movie. Each class has a bunch of nerds, back benchers,flunkers...
2. Amir Khan is the centerfold. He is the movie. He, even though above 40, can be passed-off ( though not easily) as a 20 yr student!
3. First of its kind mainstream movie in which the forbidden humor is used. Kinda like American Teen movies. At last Indian teens will know where a baby comes from :)
Negatives:
1. All the movie revolves around him. Others have acted well but its pure one man show!
2. The humor is over cliched and is used from some joke books and forward emails! E.g. Starting of induction motor, American astronauts using hi-tech pens....
3. Its too long...it should have been 15-20 mins shorter.
4. Bowman Irani's character seems to be unpalatable!

Over all a good movie...one time watch...better than many other films. I am now waiting for Salman Khans Veer to come out!