3 Idiots

I did watch 3 idiots recently. Recommended so highly by teammates,colleagues and friends alike, that when it was offered to me for free, I couldn’t say no. I have decided not to watch movies in theatres because wasting 200 rupees and 4 hours to watch something outright stupid didn’t appeal to me no more. But since this movie was offered for free and as media declared it to be bigger than even Sholay(not RGV’s Sholay), I did watch it.

And it was a 3 hours of torture. Right from the chiched events and jokes to the oft repeated Aamir Khan’s, I am so good at everything, stand left be quite dumbstruck about the taste of Indian junta. The question is are we left with fools only in this country? Har shaakh pe ullu baitha hai…

What did we celebrate in this movie?

1. Funsuk or Rancho or whatever that guy was named was so upbeat about what? Was he not a cheat in the first place? Shouldn’t all his 400(yes, he had 400 patents in 5 years, trust me) patents be scrapped and that guy be put in jail for being a ghost student. In a country where every ordinary medical or engineering seat is coveted, that guy snatched one seat for which 4000 appeared and kept preaching throughout the movie. Put him behind bars. Instead, he is called jahaan pahaan and what not.

2. What was that secne trying to prove where a senior who was pissing at this gate is electrocuted? I guess, he was so brilliant that he couldn’t wait to show that he knows a metal conducts electricity even if it meant a life lost. It’s dangerous, not smart but outright stupid. Because after that it is clear that seniors won’t stop at just killing you. Be it any college.

3. What did the movie promote – suicide? If your teachers ask you something which is perfectly legal and within the rules of college but falls outside the imaginary liberties you have taken, jump off the floor or hang yourself. No more fighting. Just kill yourself. Let me tell you guys, You will be the same person to your parents with or without a degree. Your life is least yours. Think about your parents before taking such a step. I guess, the director’s second movie was better in this sense. It told you to go down fighting. I believe Mr Khan has poked his super intelligence here.

4. Why does Mr Khan poke his nose in every girls affairs? If someone wants to marry Doctor Lector, let her do so. India is a free country. And why are his girls’ suitors so very weird that even a person with as low an IQ as Mr Khan’s can see it but not those girls, unless Mr Khan tells them.

5. Didn’t Mr Khan have even an iota of respect for his college when he changed the annual day script. It was not at all funny. Nowhere you will find a script with so many chamtkar words in it which when doctored supposedly made us roll out laughing. And where did your college stand in all this? A loser?

6. You enter your principal’s house at night – dead drunk. And barks a lot until the girls wake up, soaked in Rancho’s romantics. Well, I bet I will be in jail if I try something like this. But here the girl’s elder sister gets so overwhelmed by this that she right away asks her sister to kiss him. Just imagine what would she be like in her heydays.

7. Why does he tell his friends to change profession just before the finals? What was he doing all these years when he was so smart. Why wasted 3 seats, 3 years, lakhs of rupees and caused plenty of heartbreaks?

8. Why was Chatur portrayed a loser? What was wrong with him apart from his nasty habit of putting magazines just before the exam.

While I am writing this, I am wondering if I am the other idiot? The controversy was the a major factor behind the success of the movie and when I had seen the whole world involved in so called fighting over this movie, I had not paid any heed. But see, here I am – writing a full 1000+ words over the movie and doing what those guys want. Create more controversy. Will try to restrain myself in future.

Mr Khan has done a few good movies in past. Kayamat se Kayamat Tak was brilliant and Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar was terrific. But that was ages ago.

Today is his birthday. And above is his birthday present.

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