3 Idiots is a refreshingly good movie. In the last three-four years, good hindi movies have become as rare as Harbhajan Singh taking a wicket. That added to the joy of watching it.
But really, unlike most others, I found no reason to go ga-ga over the movie. A few points kept coming to my mind while and after watching the movie:
1. Why cast Aamir Khan in the lead role? Here's a guy, who twenty-one years ago arrived on the scene with Papa Kehte hai, playing a third year college student. The same guy, twenty-one years later, plays a first year engineering student! Thats not only hard to digest, but it also shows. Aamir Khan looks old, not 45 but definitely not 18! The same goes with Madhavan. Why couldn't younger guys be cast in these roles? Why do we not trust the younger generation of actors to deliver? I'm not a big fan of Ranbir Kapoor but he could have fit well in the lead role. Someone like Shreyas Talpade (the guy from Iqbal) would have been a great fit for Madhavan's role.
2. Why do bollywood film makers feel the need to make a movie three hour long? The movie could have been done and dusted with in two and a half hours. People, atleast I, would have gone home happier. All WAS well, until interval. But the plot was lost in the second half with the inclusion of a lot of unnecessary crap that included a lecture on "how to have babies delivered" and over use of "all is well" mantra. Un-realism in movies is fine. But when the extent goes as far as three college students helping get a baby delivered or for that matter two "techies" not being in touch with their close friend for five years in the internet era, it only makes you laugh in desperation.
3. There were so many repetitions from Munnabhai and Lage Raho: The same ragging stunts, only medical college replaced by engineering college, Asthana replaced by Virus and Jadu kee jhappi replaced by all is well. Sometimes, all this makes one feel that coming up with a hit bollywood movie isn't that difficult: Cast a famous actor, have jokes similar to previously hit movies and there you go.
Overall, the movie was good. But only considering the lot of totally crap movies that had come out in the last four-five months. During the interval, we were rating the movie as high as a 4.5/5. But the second half was no better than a 2.5/5. The rest is pure math.
