Aditya Shevade

3 Idiots – Mixture of Highs and Lows

3 Idiots

On Thursday, 24th of December 2009, I received a call from my friend regarding this movie. He had somehow managed to lay his hands on the tickets of the premier show of 3 Idiots, the much hyped movie starring Amir Khan and crew (as usual, almost everyone else has a role much less important than his own). Having nothing better to do, I went to the movie with them.

3 Idiots is a surprisingly good movie. All the talk about the similarities with 5 Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat proved to be stretched so much that Young would have had an heart attack. The movie bears some resemblance with the book, but is nothing like it most of the times. The disparities were very much welcome. Contrary to popular public opinion, I don’t like the book very much. Plus one to 3 Idiots. Plus one to Rajkumar Hirani for writing a story with brilliant dialogs and quick witty humor.

For all those who have not and have read the book, 3 Idiots is a story of 3 college students and their lives on the campus. How they tackle the (very) unpredictable nature of college life and how some of them reach new heights while others fall apart in the process.

The biggest plus point of the movie is the acting. Entire crew is very good. R Madhavan is solid as usual (I still don’t get how and why he failed to receive proper recognition as mainstream actor in bollywood). His emotions are very strong in the movie. Sharman Joshi has delivered a solid performance. Boman Irani is funny as usual (though he overdoes it many times). The most surprising package is Kareena Kapoor. I hate her performances in most of her roles. This one suits her perfectly. Yet, if you take away Amir Khan from this movie, it sort of falls apart. He sort of brings the performances together.

Another thing I like about the movie are the songs. The songs are catchy. One more reason, I like the songs is because of Sonu Niigaam. He has sung ¾ songs if I remember correctly. The music videos are nice as well. The lyrics are also good if not legendary. Songs will never be all time greats, they won’t end up in any golden collection also, but for the moment, they are good songs and that sells.

The funny situations, the dialogs, the setting of the movie and the performance… everything is very good except for the end. As usual, a bollywood movie is incomplete without some over exaggerated drama at the end. This movie does not stop at one drama though. It goes on for 4 of them. I will not reveal them here just for the sake of avoiding spoilers. One thing for sure though, the movie lost almost entire impact during last 15 minutes for me.  Overall, the movie left a good impression on me except for last 15 minutes.

Movie Rating, 3/5.

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