Loosely because the theme, the characters and the premise is the same but the story line has been altered a bit to suit the Bollywood audience (which is actually not so good). 3 Idiots is loosely based on the novel by Chetan Bhagat, 5 Point Someone. It was that rebellious attitude to do the difference that has carried me through all these years.Īnyway, coming back to the movie. I cant explain the surprised look on the faces of our teachers back in our college when they learnt that two guys, one with average grades (Sanjeev) and one with non-mentionable grades (me) could do this. Although we didn’t win, it did receive a special mention in their record books (I suppose it is still there and has been researched by now). We ended up presenting some thing that caught even the IITians unaware, a most economical way of building the stone columns in a marshy land. After many futile attempts at trying to learn the already presented brain heavy papers on structural engineering, we decided to do some thing on our own. There was a contest at IIT, Chennai and we HAD to get selected and participate. I remember during my engineering days, me and my classmate Sanjeev were struggling to get a paper presentation topic. An attitude that has a capacity to challenge the ‘as is’ and invent, innovate or evolve into some thing more, some thing new and some thing better. And I believe, to be a knowledgeable person, some where within you need to have that rebellious attitude. A dialogue in the movie says, we should learn and study to become worthy and not to become successful. There is a difference between getting educated and becoming knowledgeable. 3 Idiots sufficiently manages to do that. It should take you on a journey of your own, within you.
I always believed that a movie should be a work of art. But like the other two, it not only makes you think, it makes you act as well. No, 3 Idiots doesn’t even have a slightest of resemblance with any of the two. I so much remembered my two other favourite movies in recent times, Rock On and Guru while watching the movie. This movie, although having a ‘bollywoodish’ touch to it, does strike a chord deep within. For this movie is sure to become one of the greatest hits in recent times.
One, writing and converting his immensely popular novel ‘5 point someone’ into a movie script and then choosing (or rather getting chosen by) Rajkumar Hirani to direct 3 Idiots. I’d personally like to thank Chetan Bhagat for the two sensible things he did since becoming ‘the popular guy’ in India amongst the youth.
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