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3 Idiots to me was a movie which left me confused. Did I really like it or not, was what I was wondering as I stepped out of the theater. And I think the very fact that I was giving it a thought proved that at least it wasn’t ‘great’ for me. I nowhere felt the same way as I had felt when I had walked out after watching “MunnaBhai 2″. Yes it had moments where I laughed and giggled through the movie and I wasnt bored at any point of time – but I guess that’s about it.

The movie has a good message which makes one think twice about the rote based Indian education system (which BTW struck the perfect chord with me as this is something that I keep wonderng when I think about A’s education and schooling). But I thought this message was not strongly put forward – enough to hit you hard. I related to it cause I am in that phase where I myself think about it all the time but had that not been the case I wouldn’t be hit so hard. The example where Aamir Khan takes over a class and leads them to scramble through their books without stopping to think for technical words that dont exist – was not that appealing to me. On the other hand the campus suicide does pain you a bit. V related to it even more given that the entire shooting was done in IIM B and the campus had seen a  suicide even in his batch.

The whole ‘munnabhaising of the engineer Rancho’ went a lil overboard I thought – I mean carrying out the delivery of a baby on the TT table using car batteries, vaccuum cleaners and a webcam and then the baby crying only after listening to ‘All is well’ was making it a little too dramatic. Many parts of this movie did not feel real and I think to deliver a message – it needed to have some realism and conviction in it. The romance angle of Kareena and Aamir was just so not required.

Aamir’s success in life and how he achieved it even though he stayed in India which is so deep rooted in the rote education system was something that was missing for me – I wanted some insight into how he made it big and how he defied the norms. Yeah it is shown that he was immensely successful at the end of it – but my point was convince me that it was because of his learning methodology and not just only his IQ which used to make him solve 10th grade problems when he was in the 6th grade…convince me that it is easy to get a job in India as it was for Raju who had no grades to show off but just a confident smile and honesty. What if he had not got that job – what about his family? I thought the movie went a lil dreamy and not ‘real’ and was not convincing enough at the end.

Performance wise – Sharman was the best, he is adorable as Raju. Rest to me did not look like 20 something year old engineer students. Yes performance is one thing but come on you gotta look that age also. All said and done this movie has its moments when it touches you. I had a tear in my eye when Aamir tries it hard to control his tears when he sees both his friends come out successful, when Sharman hugs Aamir telling him “main darr gaya tha” when the latter saves his dad’s life. There are of course funny moments especially in the first half of the movie.

All in all its of course a good movie, a watchable one..fun and with a good message but maybe the expectations were a little higher than what it could deliver for me.

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