3 Idiots

3 Idiots is a 2009 Hindi-language Indian coming-of-age comedy drama film directed by Rajkumar Hirani (who also serves as a writer alongside Abhijat Joshi) and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra through his Vinod Chopra Films company, it is a film adaptation of the 2004 novel Five Point Someone by Indian author Chetan Bhagat.

Plot
Two friends embark on a quest for a lost buddy. On this journey, they encounter a long forgotten bet, a wedding they must crash, and a funeral that goes impossibly out of control. As they make their way through the perilous landscape, another journey begins: their inner journey through memory lane and the story of their friend--the irrepressible free-thinker Rancho, who in his unique way, touched and changed their lives. It’s a story of their hostel days that swings between Rancho’s romance with the spirited Pia, and his clash with an oppressive mentor, Viru Sahastrabudhhe. And then one day, suddenly, Rancho is gone.

Why It's Not Idiotic

 * 1) The idea of a group of friends stuck in college with a strict collage director is a very interesting and original idea.
 * 2) The acting from the cast is absolutely stunning, especially Aamir Khan's performance as Ranchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad, who surprisingly acts like a real intelligent student while Boman Irani's performance as Dr. Viru Sahastrabuddhe is just as better, as he pulls off a very Mancini vibe and even realistically behaves like what would a strict collage director.
 * 3) Some of the humor is quite funny, like the scene where Rancho creates an equipment to electrocute the man behind the hazing ritual and the scene where Viru freaks out over his shaved mustache.
 * 4) The soundtrack by Shantanu Moitra, while not the best, is pretty enjoyable and fun to listen to, the same also goes for the songs such as "All izz Well", "Zoobi Doobi", "Give Me Some Sunshine" and most famously, "Behti Hawa Sa Tha Woh".
 * 5) Some of the scenes are very emotional such as the scene where the gang gets rusticated after being discovered by Virus for finding the real paper and the scene where Raju commits suicide by falling off Virus' windows.
 * 6) It does a good job at realistically depicting how collages are in real life, such as pushing someone to do a different job than the one the person intended to which can make that person commit suicide as a result.
 * 7) Spoilers: The shocking plot twist where it turns out that the unnamed man they found at a funeral was actually the real Rancho whose father had adopted a servant child to take his son's name due to the child's love in studying.
 * 8) It received a Tamil remake called Nanban, which was surprisingly a lot better than the film and was even considered to be more faithful to the book.

Idiotic Qualities

 * 1) Virus, the film's antagonist, is an extremely unlikeable character as he was responsible for many of the students suicide, in fact, he even did this to his own son, which is very heartless, even for a college director.
 * 2) * To make matters worse, when Raju committed suicide, he tried to pass it off as something random, which is a very heartless thing to do, especially since Raju's family is facing poverty of all things.
 * 3) ** And when Rancho was caught for stealing the paper, Virus beats the hell out of him by using his umbrella, keep in mind that the paper was made by Virus in an attempt to make Raju fail.
 * 4) It does overuse the product placement factor, as it uses products such as Airtel, Lamborghini, Air India, Guinness World Records, Velcro, Sony, Samsung and Chrome.
 * 5) Sadly, the film isn't safe from toilet humor, as it contains two scenes where a character (including Chatur) gets their penis electricuted by having their urine being interacted with an equipment that Rancho has created, and then there's the infamous "Silencer" running gag, where Chatur Ramalingam, a Ugandan-Indian, farts a lot because of his smart pills, and when criticized, he then denies so and blames it on Raju, which caused him to earn the nickname as a result.
 * 6) Some of the moments in the film can be downright disturbing to some viewers.
 * 7) * The urine-electrocution scenes, while somewhat funny and deserving, are pretty creepy when you think about it, especially since in the first one, a very horrific scream plays, which is quite out of place even for a Indian film and to a lesser extent, the part where Chatur gets one can be this due to the moaning, which sounds like he got attacked by some sort of a murderer, even though Chatur was kind of a jerk to Raju and Farhan.
 * 8) * The part where Joy committed suicide at the end of the "All Izz Well" segment is very unexpected due to the fact that the song is mostly happy-toned, although it did made sense due to the scene that happened eariler.
 * 9) While the soundtrack is good, it's pretty average at best, as it sounds like rejected Mario music and to a lesser extent, stock music.
 * 10) The Mexican remake, named 3 Idiotas, which was released in 2017, was a huge disgrace to the film and ruined what made it great by changing a lot of scenes.
 * 11) While the cinematography is decent, the color palette used for the film looks incredibly dull, as it causes the film to have a rather washed out feel, and at times, the color palette can make the visual effects stand out, such as the scene where Phunsukh shows his students on controlling a toy plane

Critical Reception
3 Idiots received widespread critical acclaim from both critics and audiences alike with praise for it's realistic depiction of collages and the performances of Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi as the main protagonists, on Rotten Tomatoes, it is the only Indian film to have a rating of 100% with an average score of 7.10/10 and the audience score receiving a 93% rating, on Metacritic the film has a critic score of 67 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews" while the audience score is a 8.2/10, indicating "universal acclaim".

Box Office
The film's worldwide lifetime gross was ₹4.59 billion (US$90 million), making it the highest-grossing Indian film at the time before Dangal took over in 2016. The film was listed in Guinness World Records for the record of highest box office film gross for a Bollywood film. As of 2020, the collections are equivalent to ₹9.8 billion (US$130 million), adjusted to inflation. The success of the film attributed to the content and the extensive pre-release promotions, which led to an increase in the huge number of footfalls.

The film created the highest collection record for paid previews with ₹27.5 million that time, which was broken by Chennai Express (2013). In its four-day first weekend, the film netted ₹380 million (equivalent to ₹810 million or US$11 million in 2020), and broke the record held by Ghajini (Aamir's previous film) for the first weekend collections. By the first week, the film netted ₹790 million (equivalent to ₹1.7 billion or US$22 million in 2020), again breaking the box office record held by Ghajini. 3 Idiots had nett grossed ₹560 million (equivalent to ₹1.2 billion or US$16 million in 2020) in its second week, ₹303 million (equivalent to ₹650 million or US$8.6 million in 2020) during the third week, ₹160 million (equivalent to ₹340 million or US$4.5 million in 2020) in its fourth week and ₹97.5 million (equivalent to ₹210 million or US$2.8 million in 2020) in fifth to make a total of ₹2.02 billion (equivalent to ₹4.3 billion or US$57 million in 2020) in five weeks. 3 Idiots, thereby became the first Indian film ever to collect this huge amount, hence established the ₹2 billion (US$27 million) Club. Its final domestic gross in India was ₹2.73 billion (equivalent to ₹5.8 billion or US$77 million in 2020).

Trivia

 * This is the only Indian film to be distributed in the United States by 20th Century Fox under the Home Entertainment logo.
 * A controversy occured when Chetan Bhagat filed a copyright claim on the director comparing the film to his novel "Five Point Someone".
 * This film is notable for it's social impact on attitudes to education in India, as well as education in other Asian countries such as China.
 * As of 2017, 3 Idiots has been ranked China's 12th favourite film of all time according to ratings on popular Chinese film review site Douban, with only one domestic Chinese film (Farewell My Concubine) ranked higher.
 * Currently, the director, Rajkumar Hirani made plans for the film to be remade in different countries, such as China and the United States, with the Chinese version being produced by Stephen Chow, and the American version being placed on hold.
 * As of 2017, there are only two remakes of the film, one being the Tamil remake Nanban and the other being the Mexican remake 3 Idiotas.
 * In Britain, Avatar was overtaken by the film, thus being the first foreign and Indian film to do so.
 * Omi Vaidya is the only actor who is not Indian to play as an Indian character in the film.

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