“Three Idiots” is a comedy-drama Hindi film directed by Rajkumar Hirani and produced by Vidhu Vindo Chopra based on the novel Five Point Someone written by Chetan Bhagat. It was released on 2009 and was considered as the second highest grossing Bollywood film of all time.
It is a story about three aspiring engineers namely Ranchoddas “Rancho” Chanchad, Raju Rastogi and Fahran Qureshi who met in the Imperial College of Engineering, one of the finest colleges in India, where their friendship started. Rancho is an extremely talented student who has a passion for learning and his different perspective on things has incurred the wrath of the director of the college, Prof. Viru “Virus” Sahastrabudhhe, and one of the most grade conscious student, Chatur “Silencer” Ramalingam. The plot revolves around how Rancho made a huge difference in the lives of his friends, Raju and Fahran, and other characters through his beliefs and wit. These changes in their lives lead to their success and happiness. The movie is all about love, family and the pursuit of happiness.
The film captures the interest of the audience because the screenplay is realistic. It is mostly about students’ life and anyone could relate to this because everyone have experienced or are experiencing being a student. The characters in the film also exhibits characteristics and personalities of people in reality. For example, Fahran represents the students who only chose their course because their parents told them to. Also, we can compare most of the students to Chatur who pressures themselves to study to get high grades, to get a degree, and to have a career in the future. On the other hand, Rancho showed the characteristics of an ideal student who study because of their passion for learning. The setting, costumes, and props are also appropriate and these helped in making the movie realistic as if it really happened in the present time.
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