Why 3 Idiots is my favorite movie?

"Whatever the problem in life is... just say to yourself 'Aal Izz Well', this won’t solve your problems but it will give the courage to face it.."

"Chase Excellence and success will follow"

" Life is not about getting marks, grades but chasing your dreams"

These are the golden rules which 3 IDIOTS taught me as I was watching this movie. These are just some of the famous lines in this hilarious yet very inspiring movie that anyone can surely relate their selves into it, especially those college students out there. This movie made me laugh and in the process I learned many golden rules which I can use as my motivation in my college life.

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Here’s a brief summary of the movie which I would like to share to you.

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3 Idiots is a 2009 Indian coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Rajkumar Hirani, stars Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Omi Vaidya, Parikshit Sahni and Boman Irani.

3 IDIOTS Official Trailer

Farhan Qureshi (R. Madhavan), Raju Rastogi (Sharman Joshi) and Ranchhordas Shyamaldas Chanchad (Aamir Khan) are three students who share a room in the residence of the fictional Imperial College of Engineering (ICE). Farhan is studying engineering to pursue his father's wishes, over his own passion for wildlife photography. Raju is studying to get his family out of poverty. On the other hand, Ranchho studies for his simple passion in machines. Rancho believes that one should follow excellence, not success, as success will take care of itself if excellence is followed.

Farhan Qureshi: forced by his father to take engineering, but photography is what he really wanted.

Ranchhordas Shyamaldas Chanchad: He's the great man in this movie who played a very serious role in the life of his two friends.

Raju Rastogi: A god-fearing boy that depends his life to his charms and rituals but then turned away from it. How he was changed? Watch the movie, it's great!

Dr. Virus. Have the guts to watch how he screwed them all.

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However, this different approach is sneered upon by the college director, Dr. Viru "Virus" Sahastrabuddhe (Boman Irani). Virus's favourite student, Chatur Ramalingam (Omi Vaidya), known by the ICE community as "Silencer", believes in mindless memorizing over understanding in order to reach his goals of corporate status. Raju, who is initially annoyed by Rancho's methods, moves in with Chatur, where he fares worse. In order to impress Virus on Teachers' Day, Chatur, writes a speech in pure Hindi which he will memorize to deliver on stage but Rancho had secretly changed a few words. When Chatur was delivering the speech, it became so ridicule that it pissed of Dr. Virus and the other heads. Highly insulted and driven to vengeance, he swears retaliation and bets that he will become more successful with his methods than Rancho.

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Here's the scene when Dr. Virus was introduce in the movie and how Rancho throw out his wit to him with a question that he didn't even dare to answer.

Here's how Chatur made his very intelligent yet ridiculous speech.

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This story is framed as intermittent flashbacks from the present day, ten years after Chatur vowed that he'd become more successful than Rancho. Chatur, who now boasts of his wealth and his bright career with an American company, is eager to rub it in Rancho's face. Raju and Farhan have tried to find Rancho for five years with no results. With Chatur's help, they travel to the Chhanchad estate in Shimla, where they find a completely different man: the real Ranchhoddas Chhanchad (Jaaved Jaffrey). Breaking in to the estate after the real Rancho's father's funeral service, they coerce him into revealing the truth. The real Rancho tells them that their friend was an orphaned servant boy called Chhote who loved learning, unlike the real him. After seeing Chhote's intelligence, Rancho's father arranged for the servant boy to go to college and earn a degree in Rancho's name with the real Rancho going to London for college too. After he reveals that he would pocket the qualifications and the benefits thereof while their friend would cut contact with the world to start a new life after earning a degree, he says that he is now a schoolteacher in Ladakh.

Here's a sample how Rancho saved his friends and made me laugh hard.

This is how teaching must be done, the Rancho's way of teaching life.

This clip shows how Rancho did really affect and change the life of Farhan and Raju, very inspirational.

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On the way, the three rescue Pia from an unhappy wedding, over Chatur's objections. He wants to get the trip finished quickly, because he is in a hurry to seal a business deal with Phunsukh Wangdu, a world-class scientist with hundreds of patents. In Ladakh, Raju and Farhan find the schoolchildren working with gadgets that are obviously inspired by Rancho/Chhote's ingenuity, and learn from an old acquaintance MM that their friend has all of Farhan's photography/research books, reads Raju's engineering blog every day, and kept Pia's helmet. The three friends reunite and Pia and Rancho/Chhote rekindle their love, while Chatur mocks his rival and makes him sign a "declaration of defeat". When Rancho/Chhote reveals his true name, Phunsukh Wangdu, a mortified Chatur accepts his own defeat and pleads with Phunsukh to forgive him and accept his company's contract. Phunsukh, Pia, Farhan and Raju run laughing into the distance as Chatur begs him to sign the contract and save Chatur's job.

Here is the last minutes of the movie that proved Chatur is still the biggest looser of them all.

Pia: Virus' daughter, ought to marry a 'price tag' man according to Rancho, but ended up marrying one of the Idiots. Want to know who was that idiot? I'm telling you, watch it or else you will going to miss half of your life. I'm not kidding.

When everything else seems to be falling out of their places, don't panic, remember what these 3 idiots taught you, just shout...

ALL IS WELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just want to thank these sites from where I took my movie plot, the pictures and the videos: Wikipedia.com, Google images, Youtube.com, THANK YOU.

BY: Robert B. Dinopol