Watching 3 Idiots again....

To start with, this is not a 3I review. I had to start off my new blog with something, so i decided writing about what I felt when I watched the recent Hit of Hit films, 3Idiots..again on local television. I remember telling one of my friends that I didnt like the film...the reaction was like.."Are You Mad? its a Brilliant film yaar.."..another acquaintance was of the opinion that while Rang De Basanti was a film with nothing in it, 3 Idiots is the best film ever. I respect their opinions..they felt that way. May be I am really mad...because I did not like my favourite Chetan Bhagat story utterly distorted.. I did not enjoy the innovativeness of delivering a kid by a vacuum cleaner, and the supposedly stillborn infant delivering its first kick at the chanting of "all izz well"..in a supposedly realistic story about the education system..I did not like Farhan's father agreeing to his career decision in just 2 minutes' pleading, while my father never realized so in the whole of my almost quarter of a century lifetime. I did not enjoy the bride running away, YRF style. In short, barring a few sequences, I only kept ridiculing the way the storyline has been treated..a lot of scenes were so taken for granted...for example, the very kiddish romantic track between Rancho and Pia...was it just to incorporate a romantic song ?(again, a nicely sung song like zoobi doobi shot badly)...and the whole idea of the replacement of the actual ranchordas was disgustingly absurd, and only added to the length of the film...the narrative could have been more attractive had they stuck to the original storyline of 5 point Someone.
all said and done, i did really enjoy certain parts of the film. And topping the list is Omi Vaidya's portrayal of Silencer. This debutant really stole the spotlight from the established actors like Aamir, madhavan, Sharman and Kareena. Thus, every scene with a wickedly comical chatur Ramalingam aka silencer had me in splits. And though, being a part of the system itself, I cannot totally deny the "study for exams" legend, yet the underlying message of the film appealed to me "study for knowledge..and not merely for rat races of competitions..". My heart ached for poor Joy..sacrifice of a innovative young life, just because he could not meet a deadline. I really sympathized with Farhan..a victim of parental pressure leading to choice of a wrong path of life. Or Raju, who desperately needs a degree and a job to support his family(whose depiction as a 1950s bollywood flick was really funny). But the fraction of enjoyable parts is very few..as compared to what I expected from the Director of Lage Raho Munnabhai, The actor team of RDB. but my sincere claps to Mr. Omi Vaidya, and also the cinematographer..while the Behti hawa sa song is brilliant, as is the scenary of ladakh, the camera movements throughout the film aptly justified the correct mood of the respective scene..(Raju's house, for example). only how I wish that our editor (the director himself, i guess), could have done away with a few unnecessary relevant sequences, and concentrated on the main theme instead.The culmination of the film was really boring, predictable and irritating!

Lastly, next time, Mr director, please take care that a principal of the no 1 engineering college does not type letters while is laptop is on a Windows Standby Mode.

poor Chetan Bhagat!