Movie Review:

Three Idiots

Submitted by: Andrei Calabano Submitted to: Mr. Bethel Ramos

Farhan Qureshi, Raju Rastogi and Ranchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad "Rancho" are three engineering students who share a room in the residence of Imperial College of Engineering (ICE). Farhan is studying engineering to pursue his father's wishes over his own wish to become a wildlife photographer. Raju is studying to raise his family's fortunes and get them out of poverty. On the other hand, Rancho studies for his simple passion in machines and devices. Rancho believes that success in studying is not achieved by solely memorizing definitions given by textbooks or professors, but by understanding and applying the concepts. He believes that one should follow excellence, not success, as success will come itself if excellence is followed. However, this different approach is sneered upon by the faculties, including the dean of the college, Professor Viru "Virus" Sahastrabudhhe. In contrast, Virus' favorite student, Chatur "Silencer" Ramalingam, believes in mindless memorizing over understanding, in order to reach his goals of corporate and social status. Meanwhile, Rancho falls in love with Virus' medical student daughter Pia when he, Raju and Farhan accidentally crash her sister's wedding banquet to obtain a free meal, which infuriates Virus. Virus labels Rancho and his friends as "idiots" and continually attempts to break Rancho's friendship with Farhan and Raju. Things further escalate when the three friends drunkenly break into Virus's house one night to allow Rancho to confess his love to Pia, and urinate on the front door before fleeing. The next day, Virus threatens to rusticate Raju unless he squeals on Rancho. Not wanting to betray his friend or let down his family, Raju attempts suicide and ends up paralyzed. Following his recovery, Raju discards his fear of the future. Encouraged by Rancho, both Raju and Farhan gain courage to do what they were afraid to do before. Raju takes a frank approach in an interview for a corporate job, while Farhan convinces his parents to allow him to pursue his love of wildlife photography, both successful in their endeavors.

When Virus discovers that Raju successfully obtained a job offer, he conspires to prevent him from getting the job by creating an exam paper so tough that will deliberately fail Raju. When Pia learns of his plan, she helps Rancho and Farhan by providing them with the keys to her father's office. However, Virus catches them and expels them on the spot. Pia angrily confronts him, revealing that his son, Pia's brother, committed suicide when he could not get into ICE, like Virus demanded, even though he had no interest in engineering and instead wished to be a writer. At the same time, Pia's pregnant older sister Mona goes into labor. A heavy rainstorm cuts all power and floods the streets, making it impossible for the ambulance to reach Mona, and Pia is stuck at her hospital, where she had fled. Rancho, Farhan and Raju come to the rescue, along with other students from ICE. Over phone and webcam, Pia instructs Rancho to deliver the baby via VOIP. After the baby is apparently , Rancho resuscitates the baby by leading the students in saying "All is well". Virus reconciles with Rancho and his friends, and allows them to stay for their final exams. Their story is framed as intermittent from the present day, ten years after Chatur bet that he'd become more successful than Rancho. Having lost contact with Rancho, who disappeared during the graduation party and went into seclusion, after five years, Raju and Farhan begin a journey to find him. They are joined by Chatur, now a wealthy and successful professional in the USA, who is looking to seal a deal with a famous scientist and prospective business associate named Phunsukh Wangdu. When they find Rancho's house in Shimla, they find a completely different man: the real Rancho. From him, they come to know that their friend was a destitute servant boy "Chhote" who loved learning, while he, the real Rancho, disliked study. After seeing the boy's intelligence, the family agreed to let the servant boy study in Rancho's place instead of laboring. In return, the real Rancho would pocket his qualifications and after graduating, the servant boy will cease all contact. The real Rancho reveals that Chhote is now a schoolteacher in Ladakh. At the same time, they find out that, without Rancho, Pia decided to marry the same price-obsessed banker that Rancho initially talked her into dumping, and they go to rescue her from the wedding. Raju and Farhan find Pia and arrive at Ranchos school. Pia and the fake Rancho rekindle their love, while Chatur mocks Rancho for becoming a lowly schoolteacher. He asks Rancho to sign a "Declaration of Defeat" document. When Rancho's friends ask what his real name is, he reveals that he is actually Phunsukh Wangdu himself. Chatur finds out

about this and is horrified; he accepts his defeat and pleads his case with Phunsukh to establish the business relationship he was after.

Questions:

Why do you think is the movie entitled " three idiots".

I think it is entitled Three Idiots because the main characters in the movie are the students that many people thought that are idiots, but they are just not being Bookish about their lessons.

2. Which among the characters is your favorite? Explain your answers.

Rancho is my favorite Character in the story because he is thinking wisely about the situation he is into.

3.What lesson did you learn about being a student?

I learned that being a student is not just about getting facts inside any book, its about giving your own idea and making things more easier to understand.

4. Explain how teachers are portrayed in the story. How do you think a teacher is?
Teachers are portrayed to those not applying their own knowledge and experience on teaching but instead they are just depending on their books as if books have no mistakes.

5. What is the movie's view about a person's education?

The movie states that any student can choose their desired course, like one of the main characters that shifted to photography. The movie also states that education does not depend on books but instead on your own capabilities and not making things more complicated.

6. Explain the line "all is well".

The line All is Well motivates people not to give up even in times of problem, it makes us think that everything has reasons and everything has solutions.

7. What important lesson did you learn about friendship?

I learned that friendship does not depend on their differences, even though one is different, the other should still accept him as a friend.

8. The characters in the story showed true care and concern for their families. How do you show your love to your family?
I always obey the rules inside the house, I make my family happy in times of problems and specially give them love.

9. Explain all the important life lessons you learned from the movie.
I learned that we cant take life easy, but we can make it easy and always finding solutions for our problems