3 IDIOTS

Long time since I have seen a movie in theater (I know, so unlikely of me), blame it on the disappointing 2009 for Bollywood. Watching 3 Idiots makes me believe that the future is definitely bright. 3 Idiots is a movie questioning the very way kids are being raised in our country, where your father decides what you would become as a grown up the moment you are born. 3 Idiots is a movie questioning the entire education system in our country where students are taught how to get good grades rather than being taught how to learn. In Rancho's words, we are trained, not educated. Sounds heavy stuff. Before you take any decision, just remember the director, Raju Hirani, the man who gave us Gandhigiri.

The movie starts with Madhavan's Farhan, getting a call inside an Air India aircraft, which is about to take off and he brilliantly makes the plane halt, takes a cab meant for someone else, and reaches Sharman's Raju's house and picks him up without pants. Such hurry to meet Rancho. Who is Rancho? The story goes in flashback to show us Aamir's Rancho, who enters Imperial College of Engineering (ICE), while the ragging is going on and you hear the buzz word "aal izz well". This scene shows Rancho, putting some basic laws of Physics to practice, that to in 10 seconds. You now know Rancho is brilliant and unlike Chatur, he believes in learning than memorizing.

The story proceeds and Rancho at every step questions the education system, sharing his views like, subjects should be taught in simple language that everyone understands instead of sticking to the book, grading system creates divide and discrimination, teaching should be used to educate people not train them etc. and all this he does without being melodramatic (remember the way Hirani taught gandhigiri). Rancho takes his two roommates Raju and Farhan along and teaches them a different way of looking at life, where you don't need money to study, you need a uniform. In this process Rancho meet's Pia, ICE's director VIRUS Buddhe's daughter and sings Jubie Dubie in a dream sequence.

I could write so much about the movie, about each and every scene in the movie, because every scene was so relevant to the story that none of the scenes made you feel disinterested. The scene I found most touching is the one where Lobo, commits suicide after singing "give me some sunshine, give me some rain, give me another chance I wanna grow up once again" and his body hanging to the ceiling of his room is discovered by his own invention.

Overall what makes the movie so awesome is that I could relate and feel for each and every character, at times it looked like some scenes are picked up from my life. We are talking about our IIT days and our IIT professors after the movie, that was the brilliance of the 3 Idiots, Aamir, Raju and Vidhu.

To all who don't know it already, the story of 3 Idiots is not "Five Point Someone", the premise is taken from the book, but the script is very different from the book and that is what you expect from Raju Hirani and Abhijat Joshi, who have give us the finest of the stories of recent times. This is what happens when creative people take inspiration from something, they make it their own. The dialogs are brilliant and very college student like, to give you an idea, some samples, "jab apna koi dost fail hota hai to dukh hota hai, but jab dost top karta hai tab dukh jyada hota hai.", "life is a race, if you don't run fast, you will be like a broken anda.", "meri wife ko nahi, uske peeche bangle to dekho idiots, 3.5 million dollars". Acting department is full of competent actors like Aamir, Boman, Madhavan, Sharman all of them have done justice to their roles and touch your heart with their performances. Kareena Kapoor makes her presence felt in a role smaller than other four leading characters. Chatur is also brilliant, don't know the name of the actor. Shantanu Moitra's music and Swanand Kirkire's lyrics are well suited for the movie. Drive to Laddakh from Delhi via Shimla and Manali is brilliantly shot and captures the beauty of these location very well.

There is so much to write, I think it would be better if you go and watch the movie yourself and do yourself a favour. I would go with 9.5 out of 10 for 3 Idiots.

What BIG BOSS 3 has that 1 and 2 didn't?

So, after two successful seasons BIG BOSS is back with TRITIYA. While seasons one and two had more or less similar dynamics the only differences were anchors and the contestants. This time again these two factors are obviously different, but there is something more to tritiya that 1 and 2 did not have to offer.

Since BIG BOSS is all about group dynamics, what better than put a married couple in the house. Yes, this time it's Tanaz and Bakhtiyar together in the BIG BOSS's house. (I personally think they have lost their identity as individuals and are identified only as couple. They are together always. Talk about inseparable.)

You got Rakhi is season 1 and season 3 brings you Rakhi ki ma (yes, that is how she is identified). Now you know from where Rakhi got her undoubted faith in Jesus and her dancing skills.

You also got KRK. Yes, KRK is unique and cannot go unnoticed. In his own words, "KRK itna chhota star nahi hai ki itni jaldi eliminate ho jaye." I only have one doubt, they spend so many crores for the show and 2 paise ki akal lagana bhul gaye. You have to SMS KAM to save KRK and not KRK. wtf, ye KRK ke khilaf bahut badi sajish hai.

Last but not the least, you have got Rohit. There are 6 boys, 6 girls and 1 Rohit in the house. You would not have imagined people getting cinfused between which bedroom to choose in the previous two seasons.

So guys.. ENJOY...

Giving attention where it is not required.

It's been 4 years I have started my professional life. I have learned a lot many things in these years and am still learning and hope to keep on doing the same in coming years. Whenever I am at loggerheads with any of my colleagues for some reason or the other, I get really agitated and I overreact at times, and every time my boss tells me, "you are giving him/her more attention than he/she deserves."

I think Indian media is also suffering from this syndrome. They are concentrating most of the their attention where it is least required. Recently word Bombay was used instead of Mumbai in a movie and some good for nothing people have protested against the same and lead the director to apologize to their so called leader, and this news took 1/4 of the front page of Times of India, the most read English daily in our country.

If you had to name the most covered people by Indian media, they would probably be Rakhi Sawant, Raj Thackeray, Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, M S Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Gandhi and recently joining the band wagon is Shashi Tharoor, for all the wrong reasons. In case of Shashi Tharoor, the reason he is covered so much is because he keeps on giving free news through twitter.

I wish our media also learns what I am trying to learn i.e. not waste your attention where it is not required.