3 Idiots
| 3 Idiots | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Rajkumar Hirani |
| Produced by | Vidhu Vinod Chopra |
| Screenplay by | Abhijat Joshi Rajkumar Hirani Vidhu Vinod Chopra |
| Story by | Abhijat Joshi Rajkumar Hirani |
| Based on | Five Point Someone – What not to do at IIT! by Chetan Bhagat |
| Narrated by | R. Madhavan |
| Starring | Aamir Khan Kareena Kapoor R. Madhavan Sharman Joshi Boman Irani Omi Vaidya Mona Singh Parikshit Sahni |
| Music by | Shantanu Moitra |
| Cinematography | C. K. Muraleedharan |
| Editing by | Ranjeet Bahadur Rajkumar Hirani |
| Distributed by | Vinod Chopra Productions |
| Release date(s) | 25 December 2009 |
| Running time | 164 Minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget |  35 crore (US$7.81 million)[1] |
| Gross revenue | 339 crore (US$75.6 million)[2] |
3 Idiots (Hindi: थ्री इडीयट्स) is a 2009 Indian comedy film directed by Rajkumar Hirani, with a screenplay by Abhijat Joshi, and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. It was loosely adapted from the novel Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat. 3 Idiots stars Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Kareena Kapoor, Omi Vaidya, Parikshit Sahni and Boman Irani.
Upon release, the film broke all opening box office records in India. It was the highest-grossing film in its opening weekend in India and has the highest opening day collections for a Bollywood film. It also has the record for highest net collections in the first week for a Bollywood film. Within 10 days of its release, the film crossed the 1 billion mark in India and became the first film of 2009 to do so. The film also created a new box office record for a release in the last quarter of a year (October to December), breaking the previous record set by Ghajini. It is also the highest-grossing film to be released in the second half of the year (July to December), breaking the previous record also held by Ghajini. This was broken later by the 2010 Tamil science fiction film Enthiran.[3]
1 billion mark in India and became the first film of 2009 to do so. The film also created a new box office record for a release in the last quarter of a year (October to December), breaking the previous record set by Ghajini. It is also the highest-grossing film to be released in the second half of the year (July to December), breaking the previous record also held by Ghajini. This was broken later by the 2010 Tamil science fiction film Enthiran.[3]3 Idiots has become the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time in India,[4] breaking the previous record set by Ghajini which also starred Aamir Khan. The film set a box office record for the Indian film industry, grossing 339 crore worldwide.[2] It was expected to be the first Indian film to be officially released on YouTube, within 12 weeks of releasing in theaters on 25 March 2010, but never got released.[5] The film also went on to win many awards, winning six Filmfare Awards including best film and best director, ten Star Screen Awards and sixteen IIFA awards.
339 crore worldwide.[2] It was expected to be the first Indian film to be officially released on YouTube, within 12 weeks of releasing in theaters on 25 March 2010, but never got released.[5] The film also went on to win many awards, winning six Filmfare Awards including best film and best director, ten Star Screen Awards and sixteen IIFA awards.The film also uses real inventions by little known people in India's backyards. The brains behind the innovations were Remya Jose, a student from Kerala, who created the exercise-bicycle/washing-machine, Mohammad Idris, a barber from Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh, who invented a bicycle-powered horse clipper, and Jahangir Painter, a painter from Maharashtra, who made the scooter-powered flour mill.[6] The film is scheduled to be remade as Nanban in Tamil cinema.
Farhan Qureshi (R. Madhavan), Raju Rastogi (Sharman Joshi), and Rancchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad "Rancho" (Aamir Khan) are three engineering students who share a room in a hostel at the Imperial College of Engineering (ICE). Farhan is studying engineering to pursue his father's wishes over his own wish — to become a wildlife photographer. Raju is studying to raise his family's fortunes while Rancho, driven by his passion for machines and devices, studies for joy of it. However, due to this different approach Rancho incurs the wrath of dean of college, Professor Viru "Virus" Shahastrabuddhe (Boman Irani). Virus labels Rancho and his friends as "idiots" and attempts on a number of occasions to break up Rancho's friendship with Farhan and Raju. In contrast, Virus' favorite student, Chatur "Silencer" Ramalingam, (Omi Vaidya) believes in mindless memorizing over understanding, in order to reach his goals of corporate and social status. Meanwhile, Rancho also falls in love with Virus' medical student daughter Pia (Kareena Kapoor) when he, Raju and Farhan crash her sister's wedding banquet in order to get a free meal, in the process further infuriating Virus.
Plot
Things further escalate when the three friends, who are already drunk, break into Virus' house at night to allow Rancho to propose to Pia, and then urinate on a door inside the compound before running away. The next day, Virus threatens to expel Raju unless he squeals on Rancho. Not wanting to betray his friend or let down his family, Raju jumps out of the third floor window and ends up in a coma. Following his recovery, Raju takes an unexpected approach for an interview for a corporate job whilst Farhan decides to pursue his love of photography. The two friends succeed with their tasks and this further enfuriates Virus, causing him to come up with a plan that will jeopardize Raju's job. During this process, Pia overhears this and decides to help Rancho and Farhan by providing them with the keys to her father's office. However, Virus catches them and expels them on the spot. After that Pia angrily confronts him, revealing that his son, Pia's brother, committed suicide when he could not get into ICE, like Virus wanted him to. At the same time Viru's pregnant elder daughter Mona (Mona Singh) goes into labour. A heavy storm cuts all power and traffic, and Pia is in self-imposed exile because of her revealing of her brother's actions. She instructs Rancho to deliver the baby in the college common room via VOIP. After the baby is apparently stillborn, Rancho resuscitates the baby. Virus reconciles with Rancho and his friends, and allows the trio to stay for their final exams.
Their story is framed as intermittent flashbacks from the present day, ten years after Chatur promised to become more successful than Rancho. Having lost contact with Rancho, who disappeared during the graduation party and went into seclusion, Raju and Farhan begin a journey to find him. They are joined by Chatur, now a wealthy and successful businessman, who joins them, brazenly confident that he has surpassed Rancho and also looking to seal a deal with a famous scientist and prospective business associate named Phunsukh Wangdu. When they find Rancho's house inShimla, they find a completely different Rancho (Jaaved Jaffrey). From him they come to know that their friend was a destitute servant boy "Chhote" who loved learning, while he, the real Rancho, disliked study. The family agreed to let the servant boy study in Rancho's place instead of labouring. In return, the real Rancho would pocket the qualifications and after graduating, the servant boy will cease all contact. The real Rancho reveals that Chhote is now a school-teacher in Ladakh.
Raju and Farhan find Pia and arrive in Rancho’s school. Pia and the fake Rancho rekindle their love, while Chatur mocks Rancho for becoming a school teacher. He asks Rancho to sign on a "Declaration of defeat" document. When Rancho's friends ask for his real name is, he reveals that he is actually Phunsukh Wangdu himself. Chatur finds out about this and is horrified; he accepts his defeat and pleads his case with Phunsukh to establish the business relationship he was after.
Cast
- Aamir Khan as Ranchoddas "Rancho" Shamaldas Chanchad / Phunsukh Wangdu
- Kareena Kapoor as Pia Sahastrabuddhe
- R. Madhavan as Farhan Qureshi
- Sharman Joshi as Raju Rastogi
- Boman Irani as Viru Sahastrabuddhe (Virus)
- Omi Vaidya as Chatur Ramalingam (Silencer)
- Parikshit Sahni as Mr. Qureshi
- Javed Jaffrey as Ranchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad
- Mona Singh as Mona Sahastrabuddhe (Pia's sister)
- Sanjay Lafont as Suhas
- Rahul Kumar as Millimeter
- Amardeep Jha as Mrs. Rastogi
- Farida Dadi as Mrs. Qureshi
- Jayant Kripalani as Interviewer
- Arun Bali as Shamaldas Chanchad
- Ali Fazal as Joy Lobo
Production
Filming
The shoot of the film with the supporting characters began on 28 July 2008. Hirani and his team left in late August for the shoot with the principal cast. The film was shot in Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai,Ladakh, Chail and Shimla. Aamir and rest of the cast began shooting in early September. Hirani planned to wrap up the film by December.[7] The first scene was shot in an aircraft with Madhavan. From Mumbai, the crew and cast comprising Aamir and Kareena went to Ladakh for a 20-day schedule.[8] The shooting also took place at the Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore for 33 days as a part of the second schedule of production.[9]
According to Rajkumar Hirani, the biggest joke while filming was that he was called the most idiotic director, as he had asked the heroine of the film to gain weight and the heroes to lose weight.[10]
Release
Box office
The film grossed roughly 269,50,00,000 in India and a further 69,98,00,000 in the overseas markets, taking its total worldwide gross to 339,48,00,000. Box Office India declared the film an "All time blockbuster".[11]
269,50,00,000 in India and a further 69,98,00,000 in the overseas markets, taking its total worldwide gross to 339,48,00,000. Box Office India declared the film an "All time blockbuster".[11]India
3 Idiots broke all box office records upon release. In its four-day first weekend, the film netted 380 million, and broke the record held by Ghajini for the first weekend collections. By the first week, the film netted 790.5 million, again breaking the box office record held by Ghajini. At the end of its theatrical run in India, it broke all box office records for Indian box office collections, and is the first Bollywood film to cross the 2 billion mark in India itself. Currently, it is the highest-grossing Bollywood film according to net collections, earning 2.024 billion (US$ 44,720,996).
380 million, and broke the record held by Ghajini for the first weekend collections. By the first week, the film netted 790.5 million, again breaking the box office record held by Ghajini. At the end of its theatrical run in India, it broke all box office records for Indian box office collections, and is the first Bollywood film to cross the 2 billion mark in India itself. Currently, it is the highest-grossing Bollywood film according to net collections, earning 2.024 billion (US$ 44,720,996).Overseas
3 Idiots is the second highest-grossing Indian film in overseas markets after My Name is Khan.[12] It set record collections for Indian-made films in territories such as USA,[4] Australia, Fiji and some African territories,[citation needed] but performed comparatively underwhelmingly in the UK. In the United States, the film earned $6.5 million since its opening.[4][13] Overall, it is currently the secondhighest-grossing film in overseas markets. It has collected US$ 15.50 million (INR 72 crores) since its opening.[12]
Critical reception
3 Idiots received generally positive reviews. Subhash K. Jha (film critic and author of The Essential Guide to Bollywood) states: "It's not that 3 Idiots is a flawless work of art. But it is a vital, inspiring and life-revising work of contemporary art with some heart imbued into every part. In a country where students are driven to suicide by their impossible curriculum, 3 Idiots provides hope. Maybe cinema can't save lives. But cinema, sure as hell, can make you feel life is worth living. 3 Idiots does just that, and much more. The director takes the definition of entertainment into directions of social comment without assuming that he knows best."[14] Nikhat Kazmi of the Times of India gave it four and a half stars and suggests that, "The film is a laugh riot, despite being high on fundas [...] Hirani carries forward his simplistic `humanism alone works' philosophy of the Lage Raho Munna Bhai series in 3 Idiots too, making it a warm and vivacious signature tune to 2009. The second half of the film does falter in parts, specially the child birth sequence, but it doesn't take long for the film to jump back on track." [15] Mayank Shekhar of the Hindustan Times gave the film three and a half out of four stars and comments that "this is the sort of movie you’ll take home with a smile and a song on your lips." [16] Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave 3 Idiots four and a half out of five stars and states: "On the whole, 3 Idiots easily ranks amongst Aamir, Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra's finest films. Do yourself and your family a favour: Watch 3 Idiots. It's emotional, it's entertaining, it's enlightening. The film has tremendous youth appeal and feel-good factor to work in a big way." [17] Kaveree Bamzai of India Today gave 3 Idiots five stars and argues that "it's a lovely story, of a man from nowhere who wanted to learn, told like a fairy tale, with the secret heart carrying its coded message of setting all of us free." [18] Harish. V from Behindwoods.com gave a score of 3.5 out of 5 and said "AAL IZZ SUPERBB."[19]
Other critics gave the film a mixed review. Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave the film three out of five stars and states: "Going home after watching 3 Idiots I felt like I'd just been to my favorite restaurant only to be a tad under-whelmed by their signature dish. It was a satisfying meal, don't get me wrong, but not the best meal I'd been expecting." [20] Raja Sen of Rediff gave the film two out of five stars and states: "Rajkumar Hirani's one of the directors of the decade, a man with immense talent and a knack for storytelling. On his debut, he hit a hundred. With his second, he hit a triple century. This time, he fishes outside the offstump, tries to play shots borrowed from other batters, and hits and misses to provide a patchy, 32*-type innings. It's okay, boss, *chalta hai*. Even Sachin has an off day, and we still have great hope." [21] This film is going to be remade in Tamil.[22]
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