THE THREE IDIOTS

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In the movie, there are many things you could learn from it. The importance of
Friendship, Education, Passion, Excellence. These are the major things you need to learn to
be able to past schooling. You need a good friend that you could rely on when problem
occurs. A good education that teach you all the things that you needed to know as a student. A
passion for the thing that you are doing to be able to achieve what you are striving for without
hesitation. You need excellence in everything you do, you need to excel on the task that are
given at you and bring best out of you. With all the present of all these things schooling is
nothing to be afraid of. As what the movie always tell us. AAL IZZ WELL (Alls well).
Do not be afraid on what you do for there is always an answer in every problems.
On Friendship. Rancho considers a friend as a mans greatest treasure. There were a
couple of scenes in the movie where he put his friends needs before his needs. Like a true
friend, he would go out of his way to help his friends and his friends families, even if this
could endanger his life. Despite his super bubbly nature, he touched his friends in a very deep
way, it made Farhan and Raju cry. It made me cry as well. And I bet if you watched the
movie, it made you cry too. He taught Farjan to pursue his real passion in Wildlife
photography and Raju to face his fear of failure.
On Success.
Follow excellence and success will chase you.
Make your passion your profession.
Study with all your heart, not just for grades.
Study to be accomplished, not affluent.
These were some of Ranchos favorite lines, which he lived by. Rancho always tops
the exams. When asked by his friend Farhan how come he always excels, Ranchos answer
was simple, I love engineering. Its my passion. He further said, Follow your talent. Quit
Engineering. Marry photography. This was because Farhan was so good at Wildlife
Photography, yet, hes taking up Engineering because it was his parents dream for him to
become an Engineer. Raju then asked Rancho how come he doesnt excel even if he studies
hard. Rancho said, Because youre a coward. Scared of the future. With such fear of
tomorrow, howll you live today? Howll you focus in your studies? Go live your life.
Rancho said it very well, his words pierced my heart. So true. And so I decided to adopt his
mantra Follow excellence and success will chase you. Every day, I am taking baby steps
towards making that a reality.
On Education. As opposed to Chatur, his competitor, Rancho studied for the love of
it. In fact, he didnt see Chatur as his competitor. He questioned the educational system. On

his start in college he was ask define to define machine and we define it in a simple words the
prof was not happy with it. But when Chatur explained it in a more complicated and bookish
way of explaining he was glad of it and told Rancho that is how you define words and then
Rancho confronted his professor but the professor was mad and scolded rancho ask him to
leave the room. As Rancho was about to leave he said to the professor that he forgot
something. As the professor was curious for what we had left he ask Rancho for it. And
Rancho answered in complicated way or bookish way just like how Chatur defined machine.
As the professor was confuse on what Rancho is talking he ask what is it and Rancho said
Books. As he said this the professor said why didnt he told it earlier in simpler way he said
he tried it when explaining about machine. And the professor was furious that he shouted to
Rancho to leave the room and he was not allowed to enter the professors discussion again.
This just prove how bad the education system is. Rancho once said that the system highlights
grades and jobs instead of ideas and inventions. This made Prof. Virus furious. There was a
scene when Prof. Virus dragged Rancho to an ongoing class and put him on the spot. Rancho
was in front of his classmates and two professors, all anticipating his move. He looked at the
big book the class prof was using, and he wrote two words in the blackboard. Then he gave
everyone 30 seconds to define the words. No one was able to answer. Then Rancho said,
When you were asked to define the two words, were you excited, curious? Thrilled
that youll learn something new? No. You all got into frantic race.
Whats the use of such methods even if you come first? Will your knowledge increase?
No. Just the pressure. This is college, not a pressure cooker.
Again, this made Prof. Virus really mad. He challenged Rancho to define the two words.
Rancho was such a clever. He said, I just invented the words. I was not trying to teach
Engineering. I was teaching you how to teach.
Rancho believes that by changing the educational system, we can change the world.
He manifested this in his own special way as shown in the latter part of the movie. Rancho
also questioned the grading system. He said that grades create a divide A Graders =
Masters and C graders = Slaves. He said this because after the term, their class would have a
class picture and those who excel would sit in front and those who have the lowest grades sit
at the back.
I share Ranchos view on education. This was one of the many reasons why I was
glued to the movie. Indeed, learning should be exciting and inspiring! Though Ranchos ways
and beliefs were unconventional and he was always scolded by Prof. Virus, his passion and
his good nature were so vibrant, Prof. Virus gave the pen to Rancho towards the end of the
term. Even Chatur who competed wildly against Rancho bowed down to him towards the end
of the movie.
Follow your passion: Very often we deceive ourselves by giving in to the demands of
the people around us, rather than following what our minds dictate. We go by the set

standards of the society and ignore our real passion. This results in dual loss. We end up
becoming mediocre professionals in the field that we enter and on the other hand the field
which happens to be our real passion, loses a potential talent. A person who has a passion for
cooking walks into an engineering college and ends up becoming a mediocre engineer, while
the hospitality industry loses a good chef. Pursuing ones passion is not easy. Well encounter
so many setbacks. Always remember, when a problem bugs you, put your hand in your heart
and say All is well.
Strive for Excellence: We tend to define certain parameters of success by looking at
the people who are deemed to be successful in life. We then channelize all our energies in
chasing this perceived notion of success, instead of focussing on excellence in our respective
fields of operation. I have seen many good technologists shifting gears to chase the goal of
becoming a manager by doing people management. The end result is that we lose a good
technologist and get a bad people manager. If the same technologist would have focussed on
developing his skills in technology, he would probably have become an indispensable entity
in the organization and which in turn would have made him successful. As Rancho says,
strive for excellence and success will chase you.
Conclusion: The movie teaches as the importance of friendship and education. To be
able to succeed in life we need to have a bestfriends or an important people in our life that we
could lean on. And most of all education. But not an only a mere education, education that we
could be proud of. Because we love what we are doing. If we love technology so we better
strive for an education that would teach us more about technology. If we love cooking then
we should follow our passion and strive for excellence in doing it. Once we achieve this
excellence then we could tell to ourselves that we have live a better life. In our life we always
have this end goal that we want to become SUCCESSFUL this is what we always wanted.
So to be able to reach this end goal we should strive our best follow what we are passionate
about. And do not be afraid to commit mistakes for what the movie always tell us ALLS
WELL, no matter what the problem would be everything would be all right if we are
passionate on what we are doing then we would excel in any problems. Just like how other
successful persons are. For they are passionate on what they do they always excel on what
they do. No problems can stop them. ALLS WELL