3 idiots – Part I

This is not a movie review, just my instant reactions. This post may also not be well written, as are my other posts. All characters are represented by their real life names. (Viz. AK will mean Amir Khan)

As most of the movie starring AK that goes along well with a narration or rewinding the past, 3 idiots also started in the present, collating traces from past and knitting them well to keep the audience guessing. What is new this time? AK who is 44, already looks 22 in the promo, what now?

The movie tries to focus on the morale that routine style of teaching will not help face struggle in life. Scoring high marks neither. It also seemed to carry forward the dialogue from TZP, “Race hi jeetna hai to ghode paida karo insaan nahi”. It contained good sense of humor as well but sometimes the humor got carried away with silly and unrealistic act. The plot to get RM out of the plane seemed purely Bollywood-ish. BI was a hit again. Great body language as always with some similarity in syllable switch by SK (Charlie) in Kaminey. Money and Breast, Miracle and Rape, were made synonyms to make the audience laugh, was not bad. "Find and replace" feature of a word editor was projected which I also use it very often. Objective of using it is different though. The scooter seemed good enough to carry 3 people; paralyzed ones seemed to be mocked upon. It did not seemed sensible from a person who talks revolution in college to behave the way it was portrayed in SJ’s home. If you want to see comic in those situations than its OK. The BW theme was not bad though. The intermission was a great suspense. So what was it? A Ghost ?? Nay!! This is not a ghost movie!! I bet, it made people return early from the lavatory and popcorn stalls. No unzipping and unwinding of your pants to show your bum, also if you lose the bet. Ha ha...

Drinking and proposing was good addition to the movie, both turn by turn. By AK and then by KK. The giggling in between, the flick of eye, the twist of lips has become trademark of any AK movie. The name given to AK’s character both the fake name (I mean the real name of JJ in the movie), and the so called real name “Wangdu” was also interesting as it had been when he was DJ in RDB, Nikumbh in TZP. Chotu’s real name as recited by the Jealous guy reminded me of Padosan, when KK (Kishor Kumar) used to call SD – Bangdu.

The research joke (pen for space) seemed silly and momentarily reduced the heights of content quality at the beginning as it is a very common joke. But when BI reasoned it while presenting the pen to AK, contrary to the use of pencil, made the joke hilarious. The conductivity of salt water was not new, as it is acclaimed practice in many colleges in India (especially engineering). But this time it was used by the fresher which is otherwise in reality. Also interesting was no revenge kind of thing was shown by the seniors. But it is not necessary that there is always a revenge scene. The suicide(s) and the suicide attempt were good addition to support the morale of the story.

Lyrics by Swanand Kirkire were great and the vocals too. Listening to the songs, Give Me Sunshine, Zoobi Zoobi, and Jaane Nahi Denge with the context of the movie made the songs much much better.

AK made the helicopter work, was pretty genius. But no any instances was there which showed them working for their final year project. One may think, hey!! Now this is not happening. You can’t incorporate every detail. The use of web cam, the vacuum pump as suction, the battery for the inverter, the barometer, seemed a bit OTT (Over The Top) and cheap climax comedy kind of thing, provided the flooded scenario. Don’t know about this, but real doctors can comment on the use of vacuum pump. Instant short circuit using a reasonably long wire by the kids in the duration of a pee also seemed unrealistic towards the end. No worries, I got it. Like teacher like student. It was OK in the beginning, when AK made the guy to end up in short circuit as it was a long count. And in duration of 5-6 years 400 patents (I guess I heard it right) was also a staggering numbers. But who cares what is patent here, isn’t it?

Electricity was off. What to do? I thought why not write something on the movie you watched 1 hour before. After Lagaan, I watch every AK movie in theaters, with the notion of innovation and exuberance of well scripted context. So, thought “Ek Post To Banta Hai”, hence this post. So, I end up my post saying: 3 idiots is a good movie but will not end up saying “wow”, “wow” and “wow”. This movie may have a turnover of 100 crores in 4 days, no worries, that’s good and I am not making any hype about this fact. But I will always rate DCH, TZP, RDB higher than this one. Many seems reluctant to compare AK, but who says he cannot be compared with himself??

3 idiots – Part II will also be posted soon. Have patience… Keep chipping into my blog... C Ya...

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