The three idiots show us what is wrong with our current system of education

Rating: 9/10 (2 January 2010)

Aal iz not welleducation system
Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra coupled with Aamir Khan have come out with an ingenious film. The film exposes the fact that the Indian Education System needs to be revamped and how well they do it. Picturized in trademark Hirani style, the film is a must watch for every student and parent. The current scenario where teachers feel that whatever has been taught in class is the only thing that the student needs to learn and a scientific or questioning mind is not welcome in the classrooms is shown in good humour. The student too gets conditioned to this rote learning or falling in line syndrome for earning favours from the teachers. The setting is in a premier engineering college of the country ICE where three students are thrown into the situation because their parents wanted them to do so. This is so true of innumerable students who are just following their parents diktat in opting for engineering. Madhavan wants to get into wildlife photography but is forced into ICE. Sharman has to do it because he has to succeed and support his family which is struggling for survival with an ailing father and a working mother and an unmarried sister of marriageable age.Aamir Khan is the odd man out in the trio with a penchant for technology and a sharp and questioning mind. But these threesome are found unfit by the college director (Boman Irani) . In the leadership of Aamir Khan they thwart the college's efforts to punish their waywardness but to no avail . By the time they reach the final year there are two groups – one the studious , loyal types and the other is the threesome who are mischievous and non-conforming. Time and again they pester the college authorities with their pranks .Aamir is not the serious study variety but is successful in topping the exams . This point drives home the issue that if you have the passion you can do it – you don't need to cram.After being rustigated from college, Boman changes his heart and takes them back because their ingenuity saves his daughter as they help her deliver her child in extraordinary circumstances and with the help of Kareena , who is a doctor and also Boman's daughter. Aamir disappears after his college only to be traced by his friends in what is the ultimate goal of his passion. The gags, jokes, ragging scenes, classroom sequences, romantic scenes, gatecrashing into marriages and all such bits in the movie are so realistic that all of us would have done the same in the colleges. Aamir is superb and looks the college student. He fails to surprise because each time he surpasses himself and has the uncanny knack of choosing the right films.Madhavan and Sharman support him to the hilt as true friends who are ready to crashland flights, gag car owners and ditch the college authorities to support each other. The light-heartedness is there but there are some touching family scenes too which makes the movie one of the best in recent times. Raju Hirani proves to be a master storyteller again. Swanand Kirkire's lyrics are youthful and meaningful. Shantanu Moitra's music is adequate but is the only mediocre thing in an otherwise brilliant film.Boman is his usual hilarious with grey shades . Kareena is beautiful .