Directed by Rajkumar Hirani
Produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Written by Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijit Joshi
Starring Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Kareena Kapoor, Boman Irani
Music by Shantanu Moitra
Running time believe me, you would not care!

There are times when your heart feels different. You get to know when you are extremely low or you are extremely high, for me to get to that state, especially to be happy, I need to have a damn good reason. Believe me guys, just 15 minutes into the movie, I was ecstatic and how?

To be very frank, I thought 3-idiots would be a flop or may be at the very best would be an average flick, I quite did not like how Aamir rolled his eyes and acted, it all seemed a bit too much to bear when I saw the commercials and I hardly had any hopes when I booked my tickets and now here I am struggling to  find words to describe my feelings even after some 12 hours after watching the movie.

Now what makes the movie so great? The answer is simple, you could relate to it! I mean when you see the characters on the screen you instantly know what is the director saying; the director plays the musician, knowing exactly what notes to play so that they resonate deep with in your heart. The witty dialog, amazingly tight screenplay, the camera angles chosen, the music everything syncs so amazingly well that for sometime I could not believe my self!

First things first, the movie is not five point someone, it is just loosely based on it, at the most some 10%, I actually did not know this, which is why I was in for a pleasant surprise. Not because that I did not like the book or something, I was expecting something to be happening and it did not and voila! I was impressed instantly and how?

I will tell you why? To be very frank you will not see anything new for most part of the movie. Apart from the criticism on the Indian education system there is no other point to be made, in fact that is the only point to be made. Obviously, we will see students committing suicides and all such stuff, you know it is nothing new, but here is where screenplay and direction come into picture. In a normal Hindi movie, this would have been over done or mishandled, but in here you get to feel with characters, yes you do, you do not cry or something, you just feel for them, along with them;  now this is what I call brlliancy in execution.

You would also see a relation to the previous movie of Hirani, there is a mapping to jaadi ki zhappi, there are a few scenes involving hospitals and brain dead patients etc. but you would not simply mind! I do not why, but you would not mind it, all the similarities would be lost in some witty dialog. But then I say the dialogs or at least the jokes are not new either, but the way they were executed top class, flawless!

The next section that fared brilliantly is the characters and characterization. It is difficult for for a forty five year old to play a twenty something old college goer. This is one of my biggest apprehensions before going to movie, but ten minutes into the movie I felt like giving standing ovation to Amir. Man this man is awesome and how? Amir Khan kills you with his looks, a few days ago I was reading about the sense of wonder that we lose as we grow up, when you see Amir you feel that you are seeing Amir Khan twenty years ago, he just looks so like college going lad, period.

Take for example, there is a scene where Boman drags Amir from his office to a lecture room, the expressions that Amir put forth are really heart warming, it is so like a student who is being reprimanded but did not understand what his wrong was. Similar expressions were extracted from Arman Joshi when Boman informs him about his rustication.

Another worry I had was Kareena. This young lady would not leave a stone unturned to over act and I was really worried about bearing her screen presence. But the director did an excellent job here again, I would not explain any further.

Music was par excellence. The tunes were average in isolation but worked brilliantly for me in sync with the picture. Especially the song zoobie zoobie; this song which is supposed to be outcome of an ecstatic mood would leave you as ecstatic, the visuals would not let you think anything but ecstasy and then there is another song after a character commits suicide, the tune, the lyrics they all fit so amazingly well into the situation, full marks to the director again!

What else do you want guys? Amazing screenplay, great dialogs, music that is an integral part of the movie, awesome characterization and an ecstatic feeling as walk out of the movie hall, I could not have asked for more! I rate the movie a *****.

3 idiots would undoubtedly be among the best pictures made in this decade, I say this without an iota of doubt. And Amir, take a bow. Hirani take three bows!

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