3 idiots released almost one month ago and I happened to watch it only this week. My friends were shocked it took me this long to watch the movie. Should I even mention how shocked they were when I told them I did not like the movie?
I had a lot of expectations from the movie. Aamir Khan did excellent marketing to hype the movie and “word of mouth” worked very well for the movie. People around kept saying the movie was “excellent, brilliant, thought provoking”. But honestly did you need Aamir Khan to tell you “Follow your dreams?”, if that was you meant by thought provoking. I agree this country has a madness about engineering,at least the place I come from. I know people who study engineering hating every minute of those 4 years. I have heard of people who skip a year to re write the IIT entrance test.But if we all knew what we wanted to do and did what we wanted to, wont we all be successful(in our own definitions of success)?.
In Tamil Nadu itself there are 500 odd engineering colleges. AP stands second with 431 colleges, Delhi has 89. Roughly, around 4 lakh engineers graduate every year in India. How many of them do you think are doing engineering because it is their passion? I know so many mechanical engineers working with the IT companies. I know people whose ambition is engineering but they don’t mind any field of engineering as long as it is from reputed colleges.Evey year the counseling scene is like some fish market. I remember my dad’s friend frantically calling him up and giving updates about sold out seats( quite literally as well) when he went with his daughter. I accept engineers are brilliant and wanted all around the world but don’t we romanticize too much? Almost to the extent of putting down other professions and courses. I felt offended when a professor in the movie said” If you want it easy, go to an Arts college”. WTF! This is the problem in the country, we see nothing beyond engineering, not much.
OK I realised I did not mention why I did not like the movie. It had it’s funny parts but got very preachy. The message reached but we knew it before we watched the movie. Aal Izz well was a little annoying. Aamir khan acted like a retarded kid in his attempt to be a college student though I must accept he did a fairly good job. The movie did not endorse suicide but 3 suicide cases in one movie? A little overdose and misleading. We all watch movies knowing it is not real but that pregnancy scene was beyond what my imagination could take-BIZARRE. I would give the movie 5 on 10( not that my ratings matter).
January 18, 2010 at 1:24 pm |
Nice post! But I must add that movies are meant to over emphasize to an extent for the message it conveys to reach all audience! I agree that the child birth scene was a bit too much! If people can put up with 60 yr old “college student” and “angry young man” types and their antics in Indian Cinema, they can accept this as well!! Bottom line…. if we can watch Vikram flying around the ceiling for the first 10 minutes in a movie, we have enough threshold to put up with the small negatives and look at the bigger “picture”(pun intended)
January 18, 2010 at 1:46 pm |
I agree. Vikram did not go around telling people what is right and wrong, the message was just delivered with the plot( but no reason to like the movie. I thought it was piece of crap especially after seeing him in Anniyan).Here Aamir Khan acted like a wise student who knew everything.If he had been portrayed as just an intellectual student who like everybody else cursed the system, the message would still reach. But Rancho being this know it all wise student whose only aim was to help others and teach the teachers did not work with me. I have never seen a student like that, so it lost it’s charm of being the story we all relate to.
January 18, 2010 at 1:55 pm |
Rancho is not the guy we need to relate to. he is just a messenger and in the end the prof says that Rancho is not always right (astronauts can’t use pencils in space-symbolic of him not being right always!))
January 18, 2010 at 3:24 pm |
soapala irukalamo?
January 18, 2010 at 4:51 pm |
The fact the people are dicussing this movie itself is a big success for Aamir.
January 18, 2010 at 5:10 pm |
@Unc: Lol, have you watched it?
January 20, 2010 at 2:56 am |
Actually not yet. I just finished my “call sheet”. ha ha ha!!. So I will catch up now