After watching the movie "3 IDIOTS", your reflections
on the 3 characters, which one would you choose?
It all started in the college days of three best
buddies: Farhan Qureshi, Raju Rastogi, and Rancchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad
“Rancho” at the Imperial College of Engineering, India. Farhan, is one of the
many college students who was forced to pursue his parent’s dream of becoming
an engineer. Rajuis a poor lad who strives hard to get good grades yet he still
gets low marks. He hopes to land a good job someday for the sake of his family;
while Rancho, the one who stands out among the crowd, studies engineering for his
passion of machines and devices. However, due to his different approach in
studying, Rancho incurs the wrath of the dean of college, Professor Viru “Virus”
Shahastrabuddhe. Rancho criticizes his professor’s style of teaching for
lacking enthusiasm and understanding in discussing their lessons; thus this
leads to a series of conflicts. In contrast, Virus’s favorite student, Chatur “Silencer”
Ramalingam, believes in memorizing over understanding in order to be a
successful engineer. Chatur is the typical student who studies without passion.
Things become more complicated when Rancho falls in love with Virus’s daughter,
Pia; a girl whom he met when he crashed a wedding party. At their senior year,
Chatur was humiliated for giving a ridiculous speech in front of everybody
because Rancho pulled a prank on him. Chatur found out and then he promised to
get revenge by insisting on becoming more successful than Rancho.
After ten years, Chatur, now a successful millionaire, is boastful that he has
surpassed Rancho and he was also looking forward to sealing a deal with a
famous scientist and prospective business associate named Phunsukh Wangdu.
Having lost contact with Rancho after graduation, Chatur, Farhanand Raju goes
on a journey to search for Rancho. On their adventure, they found out that the
Rancho they knew of was not the real Rancho. Rancchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad was
just a wealthy guy who made a deal with their best friend. The real Rancho
wanted the fake Rancho to earn a college degree for him by acting undercover as
him, the real Rancho. In exchange for this, the real Rancho will provide the
fake Rancho his tuition fees and his needs as long as he “gives” him a good educational
background. The real Rancho reveals that the fake Rancho is now a school
teacher in Ladakh. When Chatur found about this, he laughed to his pleasure and
mocks Rancho for becoming an ordinary school teacher despite of his grades. Raju,
Farhan, Chatur, and Pia goes to Rancho’s school. Pia and the fake Rancho
rekindles their love. Chatur hurriedly asks Rancho to sign on a “Declaration of
Defeat” document. When the fake Rancho’s friends ask for his real name, he
reveals that he is actually Phunsuk Wangdu. Chatur was horrified when he heard
of this; he swallows his pride and pleads his case to Phunsukh that he
establishes the business deal he was after.
I liked
the film. It is quite entertaining and at the same time educational especially
for the attitude of each student and their respective school educational system.
I would recommend
you to watch it if you have not already seen it. Over and over again, I have
seen other people believing in messages that actors in the movies deliver. If you are not able to properly judge the
message you are at a big loss. Just do not believe in what you would like to
believe. In my own point of view, the exclusive responsibility of a movie is to
interest people and not to just convey any messages. The perception of the
movie might try to thrust some awareness to the public. Such messages should
not be blindly believed. If you contemplate, our education system must radically
change; I would like to bring to your notification a lot of other things that
needs to be drastically rehabilitated. Our political system, work culture, humanity
and so many other things necessitate a radical change. You name it. Nothing is
really perfect in this world. Then again, there is no point simply bitching
about fragmented systems. As far as I know, people who surpassed the charts did
not just demitasse up things. They understood the ideas. They knew what they
were responsibility for. Here and there you could notice some students getting
good grades just by mugging up certain things. There is of course certain thing
that needs to be transformed in a distinctive engineering course. For instance,
in programming exam, the computer science students are asked to write, compile
and run one of the thirty programs they studied the whole semester. What is the
point if the programs do not change in the exams? I do not see a huge problem
in the college shown in the movie. The students that suffered were those that
did not like what they are doing. "And all of a sudden, here comes a
movie, which completely ridicules our education system and paints a rather
incorrect and drastically over exaggerated picture, and the so called educated
young crowd is adoring it and playing along with the theme, as if to ascertain
the facts. "It depends how you see
it. If you ask me, the movie does not mockery the Indian education system. The
movie is about an ideal and typical student who is supposed to be smarter than
everyone else including his instructors. Certain facts shown in the movie are
true. There are a lot of parents that think engineering is the only safe way
for their sons and daughters to pursue a good career. Especially the software
engineering course. Forcing children to study what don't like is nothing new, it
actually happens in reality. The extreme concern for son’s or daughter's career
predictions is a problem related to parental psychology. It will not help, if
you try to change the education system. I preserve Winston Churchill's
statement - "A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do". If you try to
chase a career in what you do best, chances are plentiful. But there is no
guarantee. The argument holds good for engineering too. If you pass out and get
an engineering degree, there is no guarantee you will get a profitable job.
Let's leave the advantage cases out of reckoning for now. Getting suicide ideas
from movies is not new, is it? If you try to blame movies for showing suicides and
crimes there cannot be any entertainment. The engineering students are supposed
be adults and have the ability to judge a movie. That was all about the movie.
Well in this film I realize and familiarize some lines that the characters in
the movie delivered. First of this is "Whatever the problem in life is… just say to yourself 'Aal Izz Well'. This will
not solve your problems but it will give the courage to face it.” Another thing
is “Do something you love.” – This is the lesson I learned from the movie. If
you do something you really love and persevere in learning it, you will surely
become successful; as long as you offer it to God. Do not be scared in being
different. Ignore other’s opinions and value your own. If you let yourself to
be influenced by other’s decisions, you will become like everyone else – a
normal, ordinary, plain person. Deciding on doing something you dislike for
your whole life would most probably give you regret; doing this is similar to
being a robot. A robot just does what it’s designed to do. It is not asked what
it wants to do because it is just an “it”, a thing. We are not robots to be ordered
what to do! Least of us were lucky to be given an opportunity to pursue our
dream; so we should make our own choice and pursue our own dreams. I like also
the line there in the movie, it says "Chase Excellence and success will follow"
this was the line of Rancho that really struck me most. Truly, when you do
this, if you will chase excellence you will really excel in your own and of
course many opportunities ahead and truly success will follow you. Unlike if
you done it in the other way around you will probably fail because if you chase
only success but you are not that highly competitive and excellent enough then
possibly success will not be in your way. “Life is not about getting marks,
grades but chasing your dreams"
These are the golden rules which 3 IDIOTS teaches you in a very light and
entertaining way. The movie makes you laugh and in the process you learn many
golden rules which can alter your life in a big manner. “Never try to be
successful, pursue excellence.” When you pursue excellence then you are also
pursuing success. “Success is the bye product and the result.” Of course,
obviously as they said that when you become successful it means that you really
do the right thing in your life and do what you really want to do with your
life and be beneficial to others. “Excellence always creates success and it is
a process of continual improvement.” True that after you graduate from school
you will stop studying but instead you are continuing to develop more self and
never be contented to what you only know but me flexible enough so that you
will not be just in a specific field but you can say to yourself that you can
do something more than what you expect for. “Never run after success.” It is
obviously that many people say that they want to graduate eventually so that
they can get a job and have money and be successful. For me, it is not right to
have this mindset in our selves because when you have this kind of mindset what
happens is it will be happening the other way around. Instead of becoming a
successful person instead you will become a greedy and selfish person. A person
that only think of oneself and not thinking of what are the possible things
that you can contribute to the society and to help other people. “Let it happen
automatically in life.” Well, this line has the coordination of what the bible
says that you should let God do what He plans us to do. For short, “Thy will be
done.” Because if you let it happen to your life then you can say to yourself
that you are contented to what you have for the reason that God controls your
life and no other else. “Freedom to Life – Life is beautiful.” Truly that life
is beautiful. This line implies that what the movie shows to us that one
student in the Imperial College committed suicide; I am referring to Mr. Lobo,
the hopefully graduating student if he will pass his project to Virus. What I want
to say is Life is a gift from God. So, why does ruined it by committing
suicide. It is not right that since you are hopeless you will eventually commit
suicide. But I will not blame Mr. Lobo if that what happens in his life in the
movie. Yet, it will bear nothing good with that situation. So, in order to
prevent this kind of situation, always seek God in your life. God is always
with us. No matter how hopeless we are He is there for us 24/7 in our life. “Don’t
die before the actual death. Live every moment to the fullest as if today is
the last day. Life is the gifted to humankind to live. Live and live happily
towards happiness.” This line is such a meaningful one because it dictates on
what should be the right thing to be done, in our life naturally we have ups
and downs yet it does not end there. Life has more things to come in our way. We
should not ruin it by in just a single problem or trial we are already
hopeless. We should give importance to what God has given us. It is free, our
life is free, only thing to do is nurture it, develop it, give significance to
it. Live it as what God has commanded to us and do His plan for our life. Be
aware that we are His creation and not just simply a person who live in this
world. More things to be do in life. Enjoy it as long as we are living. Other meaningful
thing that this movie teaches me that “Passion leads to Excellence.” When your
hobby becomes your profession, then passion becomes your profession. You will
be able to lead up to excellence in life. Satisfaction, joy, pleasure and love
will be the outcome of the passion. Following your passion for years, you will
surely become somebody one day. “Learning is very simple – Never stop” Truly,
we should be humble and learn every day in life. Teachers do fail, learners
never fail. Learning is never complicate or difficult. Learning is always
possible whatever rule you apply. One negative that we cannot prevent
especially when we are a student or even at work “Pressure at head” Naturally, I
believe that when we are in pressure we will know our true strength and
abilities because in pressure we are molded and our skills will be visible to
us, we do not expect that we can do this and that. So, let us be thankful that
when we are in pressure because we will discover our true strengths. Current
education system is developing pressure on students head. University intelligence
is useful and making some impact in the life, but it cannot be at the cost of
life. “Life is management of emotions and not optimization of intelligence.” Memory
and regular study have definite value and it always helps you in leading a
life. You are able to survive even if you can make some mark in the path of the
life. With artificial intelligence, you can survive and win but you cannot
prove yourself genius. Therefore, in this process genius dies in you. “Necessity
is mother of invention”. Necessity creates pressure and forces you to invent
something or to make it happen or to use your potentiality. Aamir Khan in this
film, 3 Idiots, is able to prove in the film by using vacuum pump at the last
moment. “Simplicity in life” Being happy and contented with your life as well
as doing what God plans us to do is what makes it simple yet blessed. Life is
need base never want base. Desires have no end. Simplicity is way of life and
Indian culture highly stresses on simple living and high thinking, and this is
the way of life: “Legs down to earth and eyes looking beyond the sky”. An Industrial
Leadership, Dean of the institute in 3 Idiots is showing very typical leadership.
He has his own principles, values and ideology and he leads the whole institute
accordingly. This is an example of current institutional leadership. In the present
scenario, most of the institutes are fixed in a block or Squarish thinking. “Trust
your partner.” This scenario is showed in the movie especially the time when
both Rancho’s friend Raju and Fahran become hopeless when they had both
problems. In Raju’s part he commit to jump off to the building since he do not
want to leave Rancho as what Mr. Virus commanded him yet Raju recover to that
situation through the help of Rancho. Other one, in Fahran’s part he had a
hopeless situation on how he would say to his father that he do not want
engineering instead wildlife photography also Rancho helped him to give
encouragement and finally he convinced his father to follow his passion in
photography. Lastly, Love is time and space free. In this movie, it proves that
love can overcome all the negative things in life. It makes life easier and
happy live. There is a part there in the movie that Rancho makes Mr. Virus’
heart soft. During the giving birth of Mr. Virus’ daughter, that time it shows
that Rancho is really intelligent because that time he do his best just to
successfully give birth to Mr. Virus’ daughter despite of the problem that the
electricity loss and so Rancho came to rescue and let Pia discuss with him in the
computer since Pia is a doctor. So both Rancho and Pia help each other in order
to make that baby live. As what expected Rancho successfully give birth to the
child. Another instance, in this movie Rancho has love for Pia, even though he
know that the father of Pia is Rancho’s number one enemy in this movie. Yet rancho
did not hesitate to show his love but instead he shows it even though that Pia’s
dad, Mr. Virus, will be angry and the number one will not approve to their love
affair. But instead Rancho shows to Mr. Virus that he is worthy for his daughter
Pia and he knows that he will love Pia all of his life. And I know Pia is even
also in love with Rancho because of his attitude which is very opposite to what
her father was. One time in the movie, Pia is to be married with the guy whom he
does not love. Thank God, Fahran and Raju are there to rescue Pia from a being
married to a guy who is just an opposite of Rancho. So, she decided to escape
from that wedding and help the two best friends of Rancho to find him.
Obviously, they had a hard time to find Rancho yet in the end. They finally
found Rancho in a school which he has built up. A school which are composed of
students who are just like Rancho, having a passion for studying and learning
things in a different kind of educational system not like what Mr. Virus had do
to them. Finally, I believe that Love really makes the world easier to live
with and can destroy the entire negative that this life have.
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