{"id":628,"date":"2009-12-26T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2009\/12\/movie-review-3-idiots-2.html"},"modified":"2017-10-15T20:26:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T00:26:15","slug":"movie-review-3-idiots-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2009\/12\/movie-review-3-idiots-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review : 3 Idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"Rating<\/strong> : Above average (3.6\/5)<\/strong>
\nGenre<\/strong> : Comedy \/ Drama<\/strong>
\nYear<\/strong> : <\/strong>2009<\/strong>
\nRunning time : 2 hours 50 minutes<\/strong>
\nDirector<\/strong> : Rajkumar Hirani<\/strong>
\nCast : Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Boman Irani, Sharman Joshi, Madhavan, Mona Singh<\/strong>
\nKid rating<\/strong> : PG<\/strong>
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\nTHREE IDIOTS : A LIGHT ENTERTAINER<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c3 Idiots\u201d is a story about friendship, about friends, and what they mean to us. In that, it is similar to \u201cDil Chahta hai\u201d<\/strong><\/a>. But that\u2019s where the similarity ends. Because while DCH was a much loved, and delicately nuanced child of it\u2019s debuting director Farhan Akhtar, \u201c3 Idiots\u201d is a boisterous romp through the travails of life and love and camaraderie, from a director not known for his subtlety. Thus \u201cThree Idiots\u201d ends up being a wannabe soulful film, with the heart of Munnabhai (gold) and the spark of Aamir (old but not jaded).<\/p>\n

The film starts off with 2 Idiots, Farhan Qureshi (Madhavan) and Raju Rastogi (Sharman) setting out in search of the 3rd, Ranchhoddas Shamaldas Chanchad (Amir). As they travel, the film veers backwards and forwards into flashbacks, and we become privy to the three\u2019s friendship in Engineering College. Of the three only Rancho wants to study to learn, Farhan yearns to be a photographer, and Raju is burdened by the fear of not meeting parental expectations. To make college life more interesting, we also have the quirky Institute Director, Professor Viru Sahastrabuddhe (Boman Irani), and his lovely daughter Pia (Kareena). All good things however come to an end, and the friends must separate. Will they ever all be together again ?<\/p>\n

Amir<\/a> plays a college kid here, and while he\u2019s actually 40+ he does manage his character quite well. As Rancho he is an avid learner, with a rambunctious air and a straightforward manner of speaking. Madhavan and Sharman also do well as his devoted side-kicks. Kareena is fabulous as bespectacled Pia, and Boman Irani is quite the eccentric professor. The direction is adequate, the dialogues apt, and the music hum-able. This is also quite a unique story, and it is told pretty well, with the flashbacks well-woven with real-time.<\/p>\n

However, 3I can never actually make up it\u2019s mind about what it\u2019s trying to be. A comedy with \u201cintelligent\u201d leanings or a thoughtful, coming-of-age film with lapses of reality ? This film has both elements; it tries to weave a realistic story, but the story has some unbelievable events which take away from the film. Each film is different because of it\u2019s director, and while Hirani<\/a> is a talented director, and his films generally clean and classy, they tend to be a little short on character development, and concentrate more on eliciting the guffaws. This movie is no different; thus while it had the potential to be another \u201cDil Chahta hai\u201d, it doesn\u2019t quite get there.<\/p>\n

The characters in 3I are an interesting and varied bunch. Rancho is the one around whom the story turns, and his friends are no less. It is a pity then that these characters aren\u2019t fleshed out very well. 3I turns out to have way more story than buildup; it seems that we are thrown into the tumult of events, without being privy to important background information, which lessens the impact of the emotions being shown. Seemingly moving portrayals like that of Raju\u2019s poverty stricken family are reduced to caricatures. So when the director decides to milk the emotions that he chooses to, one is left a little underwhelmed and undecided as to whether these are \u201creal\u201d emotions or just other attempts at \u201ccomedy\u201d. This imbalance, some emotions underdone, and some just so pat that you doubt their genuineness, are the film\u2019s undoing.<\/p>\n

This still is an entertaining film, pulling it\u2019s weight because of it\u2019s cast, it\u2019s humor, it\u2019s good-heartedness and it\u2019s feel-good bonhomie. Aamir\u2019s star-power, Kareena\u2019s<\/a> geeky-girl oomph also work in it\u2019s favor. All that said, I will also say that \u201c3 Idiots\u201d didn\u2019t live upto my expectations, but if you are looking for nothing more than a light Friday night entertainer, this is well worth the money.<\/p>\n

\u201c3 Idiots\u201d is a fairly clean film kidwise, but does show lots of men in their underwear. It also has a lip-lock and some diagrammatic depictions of child-birth \u2013 nothing queasy (except maybe the use of the suction ?), but if you have curious children, they\u2019ll probably have questions, so be warned :-).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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