Comments on: “The Three Idiots” and I

By: santoshojha

santoshojha — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:22:39 +0000

I agree with you, the similarities between the book and the play are far too many for Sri Bhagat to get relegated to the fine print rolling credits at the end of the film.

By: Atul

Atul — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:59:38 +0000

The movie is based on Chetan Bhagat’s “Five point someone” and in the novel, the character of Rancho was not a genius as he has been depicted in the movie.

The movie was too over the top in many places. Personally I liked the novel better.

Instead of claiming that “The three Idiots” was not based on the novel, the movie makers should have been gracious enough to admit that. I watched the movie, and I found that it was very much based on the novel. In addition, they had added many new characters, situations etc in the movie to cater to the general movie goers.

By: Prasad Naik

Prasad Naik — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:01:05 +0000

Hi Boss,
I happened to read your blog after a long time, precisely a year & the last piece I had read was on The Kite Festivities at Ahmedabad.
3 Idiots is my favourite & I couldn’t resist posting my comments.
I agree that the character or Rancho is larger than life…but that’s what movie heroes have to be …in this case maybe to drive home the point of ‘doing what you enjoy & enjoying what you do’…Guess we also have small parallels in real life too & the evidence to that is the toppers for your very own college…toppers or no toppers in colllege…..at the end of the day I am sure that everyone is enjoying what they are doing & doing what they are enjoying in life now….so Alll issss Wellll !!!

By: sunil bendale

sunil bendale — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:10:47 +0000

dear Ojhaji,
keen reader of your blog,i,hardly commented on your writing,except when i have opinion of my own.

here i am confused betn respiration n perspiration.
i feel both are involuntary actions though later one could be a side effect.
are we talking about MOVIE or real life ?

if i have to be a critic of the movie then ,sorry !

since you have involved real life here,then let me say that, it hardly make difference in pursueing any educational philosophy,
most of the people pursue engineering ,knowingly or unknowingly,because so called intelligent people pursue it and/or it is the most developed logic.

in science two plus two is always four,whereas in movies it could be five.Science being a perfect logic,
help us develope not only machines but our way of thinking.
now why not all guys in IITs are intelligent is a matter of research !

Anshu is right when he says that “asking question require knowledge in DEPTH.”

so,

“3 idiot” is a movie
dont know if actors acted well !
if cenematography is done well !
if picturisation is done well !
if it is edited well !

if…………..
if related people made huge money or not !

dont know if intelligent people are carried away by it or not !

By: anshu tandon

anshu tandon — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:28:57 +0000

A commercial film has to deal in hyperbole to be successful. Hence most of the aspects are pardonable. But I seek attention of all those who have excelled in studies
1 The single common cause for delivering excellent results at school & college level is hard work.
2 At all levels a few things have to learnt by rote, there is no alternative. One cannot do calculus by first principle all the time.
3 Under grad levels are primarily for acquiring knowledge of the subject & not for research.
4 There was enough encouragement to those asking questions. However we have to introspect and identify that asking questions requires even greater knowledge of the subject and hence even more time needs to be invested.
So Rancho is a myth, good enough for setting records on box office. But let it not denigrate a system that turns out one of the finest technologists of the world.
And Subhash Genius is 99 % perspiration and very few people besides Einstein, Feynman, A R Rahman, Viswanathan & Tendulkar qualify as genius in recent past.