3 Idiots Reflection

3 Idiots Reflection

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After watching the movie “3 IDIOTS”, your reflections of the 3 characters, which one would you choose?

            The movie was indeed very inspiring, especially for us college students who are struggling in our studies. The movie that I've watched is the best example of a movie that exerts motivation to every student who is striving hard to reach their goals in life and even though I watched it many times I am still not tired of watching every single scene of the movie. The film has the right mixture of laughter, drama, and lectures in life or shall I call it enlightenment of thoughts, a very great movie indeed because most of us could really relate what the movie is trying to portray it is simply because we commonly experience it in our daily lives it is so practical and yet very unpredictable. The movie brought many realizations to me, very simple situations, happenings, or even things in life that I myself couldn’t explain well. The movie shook me meanings that every person can relate to the actual activities that we are doing every day that we couldn’t even think of in the first place, because of the simplicity of those things we often forget its true meaning. The movie “3 Idiots” enlightened me on some really simple but so much inspiring thoughts in life, it taught me about passion and how to be strong and courageous to achieve your goals in life. The quote “Pursue excellence and success will follow”, really arouse my motivation in struggling the roads in life, this really motivated me to do more and more so that I could achieve my goals.  
The movie itself is talking about how students handle the different challenges and difficulties that they face when the hard and very stressful parts comes upon their study especially that they were studying in a school that has a very high standard of teaching and that is known to be the school for the best and competitive graduates. This is a story of life struggles, dream fulfillment, a little bit taste of love, overcoming the challenges in life and the true and unfathomable friendship of three people, particularly the three students Farhan Qureshi, Raju Rastogi and Ranchhoddas Shamaldas Chhanchad. The story of the movie is about the three engineering freshmen that were given the chance to study in a famous school of engineering in India. These three engineering students met because they share the same room in the residence of Imperial College of Engineering. The same to the students that have passed that studied in the Imperial College of Engineering, they have also their own purpose of why they did studied in Imperial College of Engineering. Farhan chose engineering because of his father’s wish so that he can support his family needs even though his ambition is opposite to what his father desire for him, In reality Farhan wants to become a wildlife photographer, to capture the beauty of animals’ life and on how they dwell with the great and perfect touch of creation of God the Nature.  Raju on the other hand wants to graduate to the Imperial College of Engineering so that he can help his family to escape from poverty. And Rancho studies in the Imperial College of Engineering because of his simple passion in machines and devices. Rancho is a wealthy genius who studies for the sheer joy of it. However, Rancho's true passion is for knowledge itself and taking apart and building machines rather than the conventional obsession of the other students with exam ranks. Because of this different approach, Rancho incurred the wrath of the dean of the college, Professor Viru Sahastrabudhhe (ViruS) (Boman Irani). Rancho irritates his lecturers by giving creative and uncommon or unorthodox answers to his questions unlike the other students who solely rely on books. 

            Rancho is also a very intelligent person; even you cannot tell that when you first saw him because of his personality didn’t fit to his looks. Your first impression would probably be wrong, but when you start getting to know him better you can tell that he has a good personality. Rancho can improvise many things so that he can solve the different problems that he faces. He is also a very humble person because he always stays on his ground even though he has the talent that can help many people to have a better living. And since he is an intelligent person, he was made to be a substitute for the real Ranchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad to go to the Imperial College of Engineering. His real name was Phunsukh Wangdu and he was only a servant of the family of Ranchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad. The real Rancho was sent by his father to London to hide his true identity until Phunsukh Wangdu will finish his studies in the Imperial College of Engineering. Phunsukh  Wangdu attains the highest grade from the other engineering students in the Imperial College of Engineering. The movie also says that when he was in his early age particularly in his sixth grade he was starting to teach other subjects that are being taught in higher levels and one of the faculties in his school was amazed when he was solving a numerical problem of the tenth grade. Frankly I am amazed by the character of Rancho because he studied for how many years to earn a degree in engineering for the sake of having the fun of learning things and not just the fact to earn credits for himself as an engineer.

If I have the opportunity to choose which character I would like, I would probably really choose Rancho because he has great passion in life to help people when they need a person to rely on. He is a happy person that any individual could not even tell if he has a problem or not. He’s the type of person that doesn’t want to see his friends suffer, be lonely, afraid or even lose hopes in achieving what they want. Rancho believes that success in engineering is not achieved by memorizing definitions given by instruments that records, analyze, summarize, organize, debate and explain information; that are illustrated, non- illustrated, hard bound paperback, jacketed, non-jacketed with foreword, introduction, table of contents, index, that are intended for enlightenment, understanding, enrichment, enhancement and education of the human brain through the sensory route of vision, sometimes touch- “textbooks” or professor, but by understanding it and applying the concepts that he has acquired from what they have took up. Like the one scene in the movie when Chatur “Silencer” Ramalingan delivered a speech to introduce their guest in a certain event in their school, Rancho and Farhan change the speech to a little bit nasty speech. Chatur is known as a student that is very good in memorizing every detail that the textbooks have written and he didn’t even understand the meaning of those words that he commits to his memory. So when Chatur delivered the speech, he wondered why the guest and Professor Viru got mad to him. The character that Ranchu portrayed is very unorthodox but is very effective in trying to display the essence of good moral values and great lessons in life. There are many good characteristics that Rancho has, he is very helpful person, he is a very caring person, he is a very loving person, and he is a very intelligent person. Many adores Rancho even his friends Farhan and Raju because he has an exquisite talent, unique principles in life and a very strong passion in life that only him can have. 

            He is also a very generous and caring person and I think this is his main characteristic. He is willing to help people as much as he can and as long as he can. There are many scenes in the movie that shows how helpful he is to the people around him. Like when he saw that certain student, Joy Lobo who wants to become a successful engineer and seeing that what he builds was only rejected by Professor who’s always been so terrible to engineering students- Professor Viru and only went to trash, it made him so intimidated and totally down. And when he didn’t see the student in sight he silently pick up the device that the student invented and he innovate it. But when he was going to show it to the student, it was already late, he gave up his own life. That was dreadful!

            He helps also the father of Raju to go to hospital because when Pia said that the father of Raju is in critical condition and it will be too late if they will call an ambulance. So, Rancho made a decision and used the scooter of Pia to deliver the father of Raju to the hospital. And even though there is an exam that will be conducted in the next day, he stays in the hospital and sympathized to the father of Raju until they know that the father of Raju is okay. Rancho also helps the daughter of Professor Viru even though Professor Viru is very angry to him and was very mean to him always and was always trying to make his school life worse and difficult. It is also the time when it has a flash flood in the Imperial College of Engineering and coincidentally the daughter of Professor Viru has a feeling that she was delivering her baby but they can’t go to the hospital because of the natural calamity. So, Rancho made a decision that he will going to make a solution so that the baby will survive from the death. He communicates to the other daughter of Professor Viru, Pia because she was a doctor. Because of lack of materials, they become resourceful; they find a vacuum cleaner and a pressure regulator so that it will control the pressure that the vacuum cleaner exerts. Because of the technique that they use, the baby survives. Ranchu displayed a very good character of someone that has leadership in these parts of the movie. Professor Viru was very happy and was very emotional in that moment and he was very proud of Rancho and Rancho receives the pen which the professor had been keeping for decades before finding a student brilliant enough to gift it to.He says that he will only give it to the right person that he was something to be proud of. He also helps Farhan to succeed his own ambitionto become a wildlife photographer. He passes all the photos that Farhan took to a person that Farhan idolized. He didn’t even ask the permission of Farhan to send all the photos to the famous wildlife photographer in Europe. Farhan was very glad to hear from Rancho that he was invited to go to Europe so that he can practice his skills to become a professional wildlife photographer. Even though Farhan passed all the examinations he withdraws his course so that he can achieve his dream and be with his favorite wildlife photographer.

            Rancho has also an optimistic personality, because he always thinks positively. He always encourages his friends that there are always solutions to their problems. He even helps them to solve a certain problem that they are facing ignoring the difficulty of the problems. He is also a goal oriented person because despite of his own personality he always thinks that when finish his studies he can help other people. And he can think any solution so that he can achieve the goal that he wants. The experience has changed Farhan and Raju dramatically, and they adopted Rancho's views and principles in life. Farhan decides to pursue his love of photography, while Raju takes an unexpected approach for an interview for a corporate job. He attends in plaster and a wheelchair and gives a series of non-conformal and frank answers and made himself stand above others because of his attitude. However, ViruS is unsympathetic and and a sore loser, he then vows to make the final exam as hard as possible so that Raju would unable to graduate in college. Threatened by Rancho's talent and free spirit, ViruS labels him an "idiot" and attempts on a number of occasions to destroy his friendship with Farhan and Raju, warning them and their parents to steer clear of Rancho. In contrast, ViruS model student is Chatur Ramalingam or "Silencer", (Omi Vaidya) who sees a high rank at the prestigious college as his ticket to higher social status, corporate power, and therefore wealth. Chatur conforms to the expectations of the system. Rancho humiliates Chatur, who is awarded the honor of making a speech at an award ceremony, by substituting obscenities into the text, which has been written by the librarian. As expected, Chatur mindlessly memorizes the speech, without noticing that anything is amiss, partly aided by his lack of knowledge on Hindi. His speech becomes the laughing stock of the audience, infuriating the authorities in the process.. Pia hears him and angrily confronts him, and when ViruS gives the same ruthless reply he commonly gives to his students, she denounces him in the same way that Rancho did over the suicide of Lobo. Pia then reveals that Viru's son, her brother was not killed in an accident but committed suicide in front of a train and left a letter because ViruS had forced him to pursue a career in engineering over his love for literature and to Pia that was not a suicide instead a murder unknowingly made by his father; ViruS always mentioned that he unsympathetically failed his son on the ICE entrance exams over and over to every new intake of ICE students. After this, Pia walks out on the family home, and takes ViruS's spare keys with her. She tells Rancho of the exam, and he and Farhan break into ViruS's office and stole the exam and give it to Raju, who with his new-found attitude, is unconcerned with the prospect of failing, and refuses to cheat and throws the paper away. However, ViruS catches the trio and expels them on the spot.

Happiness will be the result of your sweat and blood sacrificed that backs to success. Happiness is one of the most sought after goals in life. Sometimes we even tend to chase some things because we think that it can make us happy. To maintain a successful life and to achieve ultimate happiness always be thankful for what you have reached, share what you have to those who are empty handed. Make a healthy relationship with your friends and families, enemies will always a hindrance to your success. Above all praise and be glorifying the Lord God for what He has given you leads you to success. Because in God, Aal iiz well.

If a certain goal is really important and you really desire for it, you need motivation to keep you in the path of success, just pursue excellence and success will follow.

“Pursue excellence, and success will follow”, is a very memorable quote from the movie that really marked my mind. You can’t accomplish anything if you can’t put your heart on your work and with working where your heart truly lays you can achieve excellence and greatness in your work because you are happy of what you do. This movie helped a lot in making me understand the attitude and the principles in life that might actually help me in achieving my goals and being excellent of what I love doing. This also inspires me to be a better student and a better person in order to have a better and a happy life.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Idiots

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1187043/quotes