Movie 3 Idiots review - A different movie from what was sold

It was called the most awaited movie of the year. And why? Amir Khan was at work. Everyone knows him as perfectionist. In last ten years he had acted brilliantly in almost each movie. When the movie is said to be based on the best selling novel, Five point someone, it was deemed to be good. Except when I saw this movie I was disappointed and I am going to tell you why. Many of you might not agree with me, you can leave your comments below.

The fundamental problem of the film was that the director did not know how to tell a story - a story that is different from Munnabhai. Movie was supposed to be a attack, criticism, of the Indian education system needed to be realistic when it was dealing with a real subject. This did not happen even in the first scene. Madhavan aka Farhan Quereshi stopped flight by enacting a heart attack. Is it real? This scene needed? Answer to both the questions is NO. No engineering graduate, in fact anyone with sensible head, would do anything like. And if does, airlines and other security authorities would arrest immediately for the damage or as a suspected terrorist. Second, why this all needed? Why Farhan had to behave like circuit of Munnabhai? Why not show a simple scene where Farhan was in the queue and he got the call and rest of the thing follows. or something else but more realistic and pragmatic. A scene should tell the story. Story need not be told by shouting at full volume.

Where does the movie criticize the education system? Movie was all about criticizing a professor ViruS, Boman Irani. He was the villain in the movie. All the evils, suicides were happening because of him. What was the message in this scene where a student commit suicide? It was not the system that does not extension to project submission rather a professor. In any university there are deadlines, if someone misses the deadline, there is no chance of getting degree in time. It is as simple as that.

On contrary, I found that the system was shown as functioning very well. Rancho was forced to leave the classes and all the time thinking different from the university system was getting the highest marks. A student, Chatur Ramalingham, who was relying on the bookish knowledge was punished and came second. This simply indicates there was no fault in the system. It was the lazy students, who were offering extra prayers and milk to God, who were getting less marks.

The whole problem of the current education system is that is suppresses holistic development of the students and make them machine who cannot imagine but only reproduce. In the movie it was opposite. Rancho who was having fun was rewarded by university as well.

The most disturbing and disgusting scene of the movie was the baby delivery by a vacuum cleaner. Where on earth, vacuum cleaner can be used for this purpose? It is a dirty non-hygienic thing. How can someone think of pushing the vacuum cleaner's pipe in a pregnant woman's private part? Is this laughable? Definitely not. Woman are not a machine. Baby delivery is neither fun nor so easy as they showed. Director should watch "Nine month" movie to learn how to show delivery scene with humor. India, a country full of superstitions and mad men, cannot afford if someone learn baby delivery from this movie and tries something similar. Will they take any responsibility for that?

Indian engineering colleges are already suffering from the ragging. There have been suicide in the colleges. This movie was glorifying ragging. Movie should have shown how the new students feel terrified and psychological pressure rather than so many students with their trousers down and Amir Khan acting as a Hero. It should have been shown as a bad thing rather than a fun. Movie failed to raise any awareness about ragging.

Biggest disappointment was Amir Khan himself in this movie. I admired him in Lagaan, Rang de basanti, Tare Zameen par because he allowed everyone to play their roles. He was one of the artists in the movie and the artist in the movie. This movie was about one guy only. Farhan and Raju were behaving like gays. One stopped the plane and the other was without his trouser on the street to meet their friend Rancho. I am sure even gay would not behave like this crazy.

It was an average entertainer with all the scenes copied from Munnabhai - part 3 and less humor. One should not watch this movie with great expectation because it fails on almost pre-release marketing promises.