Inspired from Chetan Bhagat’s ‘Five Point Someone’, ‘3 idiots’ is a heartwarming tale woven around three friends and the frailties which ail India’s education system. Farhan Qureshi (R. Madhavan) and Raju Rastogi (Sharman Joshi) get on a journey to find their long lost friend, Rancho or Rancchoddas Shyamaldas Chanchad (Aamir Khan). Right from the first year at ICE, he was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as dean Viru Sahastrabudhhe aka ViruS (Boman Irani) would have it, an idiot. He was the Patch Adams of one of the most prestigious Engineering College, a non-conformist; always in the pursuit of excellence and not success; defying rules; inventing the unthinkable and always listening to his heart's calling. Contrary to everything what Sahastrabuddhe preached at his premium institute.
ViruS’ model students looked more like Chatur (Omi), a geek, who could cram every possible tome on this planet and would do anything to kill the competition. So, you see the Idiots’ triumvirate having the run-ins with the princi, time and again and as if that wasn’t sufficient to invoke his wrath, Rancho falls for his daughter Pia (Kareena Kapoor). Now, the dean is out to make Rancho's life miserable but much to his chagrin Rancho tops his class, year after year, even confounding his pals. You can’t help but laugh when Farhan narrates his experience as , “We learnt an important lesson, when your friend fails an examination, you feel bad. But when he tops it, you feel worse." In their journey to find Rancho, they encounter a long forgotten bet, a wedding they crash, and a funeral that goes impossibly out of control. Despite some not-so-believable adventures of threesome, like helping a woman to deliver a child in the campus with the help of their ‘engineering skills', 3 Idiots is a laugh-riot that talks about the most important of human pursuits- the journey towards the self.
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