3 idiots: "Golmaal" dignified. Review on 3 Idiots

I saw a movie called "Golmaal" which had everything like its name suggests - Golmaal due to its absolutely wacky characters and there deeds. These characters change in a dramatic turn. Very interesting and a really good comedy. And then I saw another movie in which there was serious Dean, again Boman Irani - the film was - "Munna Bhai MBBS". Then I watched a very good Aamir Khan film - In fact I like Aamir Khan a lot - this film is called "Tare zameen par". This film had some serious people, rather teachers who were serious about life and they were for the plot and were for the main character. This was a serious film.

Now I watched a film called 3 idiots. This film has three funny characters instead of the four in Golmaal who can do everything wacky, funny and awkward but this time they are more sophisicated and instead stop flights, threaten to drain ashes and lift a female from the marriage ceremony in "Dil hai ke maanta nahin" way and take her in a Volvo. However, they can also pee in front of the Director's residence and go out without their pants! They can tie the crazy person (Chatur) and dump him in the rear side of the Volvo. They can also leave home for one hour and decide to proceed to go to Shimla without collecting pants from your home (Isn't that a little too unrealistic)! These boys can even help deliver a child using a vacuum cleaner even though they don't know anything about kissing. Are you liking this description? Good.

You can keep liking and liking and having fun. And in a funny manner we learn that we must do what we like. So far so good. But I want to put forth the following. Number one. Top engg colleges dont ask you to memorize and they build concepts. Exam question papers cannot be got through by memorizing - impossible. If you dont know how it works, you will not be able to solve the numerical which will be unique and cannot be mugged up. The picture of the engineering college is put in an inaccurate way at best.

Number two. and the image of the second rank student in the class (Chatur) has been wrongly portrayed.

Number three. Aamir Khan, we want you in some other role. I know you can do such roles very good. Why don't you do something else.I will expect more accuracy from the perfectionist called Aamir Khan. I like his movies and my favourite is "Dil hai ke maanta nahin."

Number four. Where is Kareena Kapoor?

Number six. HOW can a final year engineering student do the job of the midwife? Should I cry or laugh.

Number Seven. Did the hero receive the astronaught pen because he helped deliver the dean's grandson? Should he not have got it for some better achievement in Science or Engineering?

Number Eight. The film is fragmented and pieces are loosely joined with so many loopholes.

The film is good - it can keep you seat belted throughout the three hours - mainly due to its wacky, funny nature. But this is something which the starcast (Aamir + Sherman + etc) has always been doing and can always do. But the message should not have to across to you at the expense of a bright student (Chatur) and a dean! Let me tell you that second ranking students of good engg colleges are serious guys and not memorizers. Further instead of building and elaborating further on the message, the film simply begs - " Bhagwan ke naam par wo kar le jo tu chahta hai baba" - the actors doing the begging. The new superhero, Aamir Khan , does not know kissing, but has four hundred patents to his credit and lives in anonymity! He can also make an inverter (oops - could it be something else?), a helicopter (I like this) and, can even help deliver a baby. He would rather have done a role similar to that in "Tare zameen par" and have put a more serious image of an engineering college. I want a more realistic superhero and a film with a plot and also the message should have come more seriously.

The movie could have put the message in a better way, but it sums up simply as a masala movie which sends the message across loosely.

Best regards

A viewer