3 Idiots is one of the most enjoyable Indian movies of this decade. The director Rajkumar Hirani has shown us a bollywoodified yet marvelous view of the masterpiece – Five Point Someone from Chetan Bhagat.
Here are nine rock solid thoughts you may love to revisit from the movie’s perspective.
- Knowledge is just a dead thing without its timely application. (Salt water is good conductor of electricity)
- Do whatever gives you utmost enjoyment . Do what you can do effortlessly – if you don’t enjoy whatever you are doing right now; it’s the time to revisit your goals. (Farhan with a passion for photography drops engineering and opts in for assisting a world renowned wild life photographer)
- You need to know what you are doing. Doing without knowing leads to disasters.(Chatur’s Chamatkar speech)
- Common sense is so uncommon. (Definition of ‘machine’ and ‘book’ in the classroom)
- Thinking outside the box is not common but if applied properly it can lead to new innovations. (Baby’s delivery using vaccum cleaner)
- Don’t run after success; chase the excellence in whatever you are doing… and success will follow.(Phunsuk Wangadu!)
- Even if you win the rat race, you end up being a rat. (Virus’ encounter with Rancho)
- Degrees earned just by rote memorization are not valuable in real life but actual learning is.(400 patents by Phunsuk Wangadu compared to Chatur’s position)
- Keep your heart as your foolest friend. Tell him that ‘All izz well’ and things would start becoming well…in your perceived world at least! (many instances throughout the movie)
The best thing about 3 Idiot is, it feels like a real team effort than just to be an Aamir Khan centric movie. If you take out any character (even the character of millimeter!) and the effect would be dimmed. Watching 3 Idiots (again and again) is a rattling experience to learn how to live life powerfully and add some “meaning” to it.
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