3 stars for 3 Idiots

Rating: 3/10 (28 January 2010)

The story had just one positive message (study because you enjoy it, not for a degree) and the rest of the movie was sloppily put together with lots clichés, very little character development and no great thought process.
My biggest problem with the movie was the number of suicides that were portrayed. Are we teaching our kids weakness, that if they face difficulties in life the way out is suicide???
Instead of showing will power strength when faced with difficulties, the movie went with over simplifications. Instead of telling "when the going gets tough, the tough get going" (The movie portrayed exactly the opposite, just to sensationalize and get raw emotional response from the audience, they used suicides). It is a very difficult even to try to understand why a person takes his life, what his emotional state must be, what his physiological balance must be.... and to over simplify the way they did in the movie is just plain irresponsible, sensationalism and poor poor poor story writing. Moreover the theme was repeated throughout the movie 3 times if I am not mistaken.
The difference is, in our movies we like to portray weakness as a virtue.... and that is with our society too. That is what the movie wanted to fight: The social weakness Cliché--Become an engineer or else everything in life will fail. They did fight that point, but justified character weakness, will power weakness.
The other point of the movie that bothered me was, are we trying to condone misbehavior. If we insult someone, are we not responsible for our actions? Should they be forgiven for misbehaving at someones house the way they did (peeing in front of the house, destroying property), just because they were drunk or whatever? Everyone is responsible for his actions and has to face the consequences. That is what justifies a civilized society from primitives. Forgiving misbehavior, is telling kids its okay to misbehave and steal. So what was so wrong when the professor showed them every action has consequences? He was trying to build character. But instead the movie glorifies the character weakness of the kids.
I know that Aamir khan tries to make movies with a socially conscious message, he is probably the only one who is trying in the industry. I wish he puts more thought into his movie next time cause he might be capable of making an intelligent movie, instead of falling short.