3 Idiots - Wogma Readers Reviews

it would have been better to stick to the book

its a movie that can watched again and again its just wow! awsom, specially aamir khan in the last scence with the intectuality that me kept with him in the movie

This movie is really something, I mean Mr Hirani goes all out to ensure that "goodness" is neatly packaged in commercial terms and then doled out to the audience!!!
Man, he really tries hard, starting with the messages being repeated time and time again, the idiot genius with the heart of gold, Mr Khan trying hard to look 20 with his eye widening technique and tongue sticking out, not to mention his hands in pockets body language and scuffed up hair!!
Madhavan is the only decent chap in the bunch, in terms of acting. And is Mr Hirani making fun of the "great suffering Indian family" of Mr Rustogi, which of course the multiplex goers do not hail from? What with the movie watchers being cool dudes from rich khandaans??? Or was that a tongue in cheek reference to the melodrama of good old Hindi cinema? Or was it just a laboured plot point to make the suicide jump convincing???
And which hostel ever had such squeaky clean toilets??? And such a Director like poor Mr Virus, whose insistence on engineering leads his only son to commit suicide and one daughter to take up medicine ( possibly in revenge?)

This whole film in its attempt to send out a message of hope and feel good, desperately avoids any engagement with the reality of the education system, including the elite educational institutions. It is all fun and games, love and affection, harmless pranks and attempts at revolution, all of which are in the end as completely gimmicky and as fake as the film itself,which tries to be cool and send out a subversive message in the most simplistic terms and ends up being part of the same commercial system that the director advocates one should not follow!! Ha, ha.

You want to see a film on the education system in this country, get hold of Pradip Kishen's long neglected
In which Annie gives it to those Ones, based on life in the School of Architecture in Delhi, I think. His partner Arundhati Roy acts in it.

The role of Virus is quite similar to that film, there you had the inimitable Roshan Seth playing the Parsi director who repeatedly fails Anand ( annie) in the viva, till a strategem hatched by annie's friends results in annie clearing the viva finally!!! And yes SRK is there too!!
Bollywood seems to have adapted the formula of Hollywood, throw in the star, a slick production effort masking the absence of a real plot, and couch it all up as a social message, and rake in the moolah!!!
And yes, you have the very same cool dudes and their families running to see the film and then nodding their heads and saying "yes, we need a change, we must follow our hearts, and not success and income, and laptops and blah blah...""
Then who will visit the very same multiplexes??? With no income??? And shell out Rs 200 to watch Three Idiots???

"Idiots" made 100 crores in 4 days!!! or …."IDIOTS" is being made out of 100 crore Indians....... where is the math and who is doing the math???? Do the math yourselves…This means in one day movie is making Rs 25 crores....... HOW MANY TICKETS NEED TO BE SOLD IN ONE DAY TO MAKE Rs25 Crores?????..... how many halls are there in India for Hindi cinema???/and what is their sitting capacity... Even if the movie is being screened round the clock still selling tickets worth 25 crores doesn't add upto!!!!!! ……Movie is average... But everyone SHOULD LEARN and APPRECIATE the great MARKeting TALENT of AAMIR Khan on “””” HOW to CREATE "HYPE" for your product””””.......to ENHANCE its SALES... He is great at it

SUPERB FILM FOR THE YOUNGSTARS

I simply liked the film
don't care of negative reviews
the best entertainer and also a good message

made a idiot out of myself and watched the movie today. Dumbest of the flicks I seen in a while.

Boman deserves a better ranking than you gave him.

Your reviews are good, but your parental guidance is inadequate and inaccurate. 3-idiots is peppered with dialogues about "balatkar" yet you have no reference to that. The movie is good, but let the parents have complete info and then decide whether they want their kids to watch.

I fully agree with the Nitty-Gritty that you have compiled. Here are a few of my observations:
1) Why should a Chachad of Gujarat have an estate in Shimla and not in Surat or Baroda?
2) Why did an obviously successful Phunsuk Wangdoo not get in touch with Pia and wait for his chums to get the two together after a gap of 10 long years, especially when he already had won over Virus?
3) Why did Madhavan’s character had to be named Farhan, when they were to show him drinking later? Was it done with the sly intention of inviting the ire of Islamic fundamentalists, so that if the initial box office response was not encouraging, this controversy would create the necessary viewer interest? And in event of the controversy, they would have coolly dubbed ‘Farhan” as ‘Rohan”.
4) Why did the zip of Rancho’s pant have to go up and down to explain his concept of machine; the zip could well have been that of his jacket.
5) How come 10 years down the line, it is Chatur who remembers 5th September, while the extra- chatur Rancho doesn’t?

Adding to what Anurag Anand has written above:

You are right. Your points are valid and one can find more loopholes. My biggest concern is that 10 years is a long period. In real life, no girl would wait for that long for Rancho.

The rest is all well. Peace!

All is well! I must start with this 3 magical words after watching 3 idiots. One of its kind and probably one of the best movies from bollywood. Enjoyed it a lot!

Awesome movie..great review @meetu!!
@Anurag..Excellent points! I have a feeling Chatur's (Silencer) character was based on you :)

has 2 b one of bollywuds best films ever...hirani n aamir r d greatest things 2 hv happnd 2 bollywood

Absolute social messenger movie amir khan simply great.

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