Three Idiots

3 Idiots 3 Idiots is a movie that highlights different aspects of life. Education and it’s flawed system, strict parents who never ask what their kids want, dealing with relationships, and surviving life with friends. What I like most about this movie is how it tackles a very serious issue/matter in society and still keeps it light. I talk about the flawed education system where students are taught that in life if you’re not first, you don’t matter. And that grades are all that matter and learning is only secondary. In writing this paper I cannot help but relate the movie in real life situations. I think the movie successfully relates to its audience especially, I think, to those who are crossing the path between graduating from school and entering the real world. Many graduating students can relate to the anxieties that Farhan and Raju experience as engineering students; the fear of not having a decent job to sustain and help their respective families. I think this resonates especially to us students here in the Philippines where getting good grades means getting a good job. But our protagonist Rancho thinks otherwise. And it can be seen in the ICE or Imperial College of Engineering in the movie. The dreaded principal “Virus” and his iron hand rule over the place, puts great pressure on his students. And we see how Rancho is openly going against this issue that has been there ever since. We all live by the saying of the Great Holy Guru Ranchoddas Chanchad; do not chase success! Follow excellence and success will follow you with its pants down which as we see as the movie progressed, is quite true for Rancho. In contrast to his two buddies, Rancho loved learning about engineering, he studied because he wanted to learn, study and discover; an attitude many students don’t possess. He believed that blindly cramming and memorizing terms would lead students nowhere and that they should understand what these concepts are. A couple of examples are the class where Rancho