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.
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.
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Rancho is always been the choice character since he is the lead star...
ReplyDeleteThis movie really gives us great motivation to strive for excellence! If there's a will, there's a way. :)
ReplyDeleteGood reflection!
3 Idiots will always remain in my heart, I so love this movie. Nice review Niel.
ReplyDeletei also like the movie 3 idiots. all is well :))
ReplyDeleteRancho's quote.. “Pursue excellence, and success will follow”.. is indeed very memorable and inspiring.. :)
ReplyDeleteI like this movie ... " College is not a Pressure Cooker " :)
ReplyDeleteyes! put everything in your work so that you will be contented and succeed.
ReplyDeleteone of the movies that would really motivate anyone on the field they personally choose and love as long as they do their best.. ALL IS WELL
ReplyDeleteall is well. and this is well said. :) (y)
ReplyDeletethis movie reminds how important your life is.
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