over hyped, unbelievably ridiculous

Rating: 3/10 (27 September 2010)

Once in a while there comes a film that people, critics...everyone praise sky high....but when you watch the movie, you really wonder whether you saw the same movie as everyone else. 3 idiots is one of those movie.
The film begins well...but just turns into typical Bollywood movie where Hero is above God, jokes are lame and logic is thrown out of the window...and the window is shut, leaving no room for logic to enter back.
The story starts well with Chatur calling Farhan and Raju that "Rancho" has been found and the trio, along with Kareena, (who runs away from her wedding, when she finds that Rancho has been found) start a journey to meet him. Chatur is also keen to meet "Phunsuk Wangdu", his hero who has multiple patents in his name. During the journey starts the back story of how Rancho was exceptionally good in studies and always topped, always gave out of the box solutions, was wayyy above his teachers...etc. Back to present, when they finally meet Rancho after a gap of 10 years...they find that this Rancho has no resemblance to the Rancho they knew. Then later in the story they learn that Phunsukh Wangdu was the Rancho with them during College, earning a degree for the real Rancho, as Rancho.
Let me not dive deeper into the story, but let me sum up where the movie falters.
1. Aamir Khan's character is shown to be too larger than life...than what is actually possible....he is far more mature than teachers, more intelligent....and holds more than 100 patents?? REALLY?????
2. The movie is keen to criticize Chatur's character, who only mugs up to succeed in examinations. 10 yrs later he shown to have 1 patent in his name. Now let's get real....in a way, aren't they promoting "mug up to succeed"...coz getting even a single patent is not easy.
3. Kareena-Aamir love story - Aamir's char (Rancho) and Kareena's char(Pia) meet once during the wedding and later, when Raju's father gets a heart attack and they carry him to the hospital. Just these 2 incidents and Rancho and Pia are supposedly in 'love'. So deeply in love that Rancho stealthily visits her home at midnight to confess.
4. Can't take it either seriously nor with a light heart - The jokes in the movie are too lame to call it a funny movie and the seriousness of topics, such as suicides, pressure of education, etc is diluted by the cardboard characters and execution. Nothing seems realistic.
5. Too many WTF moments - There are just too many WTF moments that totally ruins the movie. Pia gets her father office room keys so that Rancho and his buddies can steal the question paper, when she learns that her father is planning set a very tough question paper to ensure that Raju fails.
6. The Chetan Bhagat episode - I can't believe the trio actually didn't even bother to give him a credit at beginning or just after the movie. I have read the book and seen the movie....and every major incident is used in the movie in one form as the other....such as lead falls for the professor's daughter, Raju's suicide attempt, Pia's brother's suicide, attempt to steal the question paper, Raju's family and lunch at his home (which is done very badly in the movie). It's just like you buy a dress from a designer, add your own elements and pass it of as your original. If you compare the book and the movie....the book is much better coz it conveys the boyish charms and their messed up brains (hence their action is believable). The movie is neither funny, nor serious, nor entertaining.