Although Khan emerges as the star of the film, Madhavan and Joshi have performed their roles with conviction. He even delivers a baby on a snooker table and walks away after that, with tears in his eyes. Khan, who is known to be passionately involved with every film he takes up, lends Rancho a studied cool and all-knowing air which gets annoying towards the end. Hirani’s demarcation of these two worlds is too simplistic to be true. On the other side of the argument is the college, or the establishment, which is symbolized by Professor Viru Sahastrabudhhe, or Virus (Boman Irani)-a quirky man with a lisp, who is brazenly undemocratic and Naziesque.
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Free spirited geniuses can have their tragic flaws too, which can make them even more interesting than they are. Right from the moment Khan appears on screen, he is doing something or saying something that evoke either awe or jealousy. The vehicle is Rancho, who is a philosopher, self-help guru, science genius, man of the world, loyal friend and do-gooder all rolled into one. But the script, written by Hirani and Abhijat Joshi, hammers it in. At some point in our school and college days, all of us have felt boxed in wished the pernicious physics professor was a little more human. The message of the film, which is that our education system is antithetical to free thought and knowledge, is an easy one to relate to. The ragging sequences, some moments between Rancho and his girlfriend Pia (Kareena Kapoor, vibrant and glamorous in spectacles), drunken conversations of the three friends on the hostel terrace, pranks on the resident nerd (predictably a Tamil)-some of them look effortless and spontaneous, but any discerning film lover would know that the director has worked very closely with actors before filming. Hirani has indeed captured some moments with the right emotional punch. The audience at the press screening, which also consisted of people who were not from the media, were in splits throughout (some even applauded). There are some genuinely funny scenes and moments. 3 Idiots is loud, overwritten and melodramatic. They were ambitious scripts that demanded risks. The Munnabhai films were not only “feel good", which tend to typify most commercially successful Hindi films, they weaved in the larger messages of the script into the story seamlessly. The story of three friends who meet in college does not smack of the quintessential Hirani touch-simple, but layered funny, but poignant and original, but universal. Hirani has written and directed the Munnabhai films, two of the most seminal films of this decade. My own anticipation revolved around the director, for a film is ultimately his vision-with or without stars. Khan’s promotional tour across India, in disguise, grabbed headlines. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi, as well as Kareena Kapoor in the lead roles. It is an anticipated film, with Aamir Khan and two other very good actors, R. The germ of this campus film is Chetan Bhagat’s best-selling book Five Point Someone, but Hirani and his co-writer has altered many situations and added twists in the plot to make it suitable for cinema.