3 Idiots

Orientation

This film tells the story of the lives of three friends who studied at Imperial
College of Engineering. they are Farhan Qureshi, Raju Rastogi, and
Rancchoddas Shyamaldas Chanchad. While in college, they always hit
problems that force them to separate. but they are always able to resolve
the issue.

Interpretive Recount Summaries

Farhan Qureshi, Raju Rastogi, and Rancchoddas Shyamaldas Chanchad

"Rancho" are three engineering students who share a room in a hostel at the
Imperial College of Engineering "ICE". Farhan is studying engineering to
pursue his father's wishes over his own wish to become a wildlife
photographer. Raju is studying to raise his family's fortunes while Rancho,
driven by his passion for machines and devices, studies for sheer joy of it.
However, due to this different approach Rancho incurs the wrath of dean of
college, Professor Viru Sahastrabudhhe (ViruS). Rancho irritates lecturers
with his creative and unorthodox answers. He confronts ViruS after fellow
student Joy Lobo commits suicide. Joy had requested an extension on his
major project on compassionate ground, ViruS refused any extension.
Rancho denounces the dog-eat-dog, rat race mentality of the institution,
blaming it for Lobo's death.

ViruS labels Rancho and his friends as "idiots" and attempts on a number of
occasions break Rancho's friendship with Farhan and Raju. In contrast, ViruS’
favorite student is Chatur Ramalingam or "Silencer", (Omi Vaidya) whose
thinking is completely opposite from Racho who toes the line of the system,
believes in mindless memorizing over understanding, in order to reach his
goals of corporate and social status. On Teacher's Day Chatur is awarded the
honour of making a speech. Since Rancho is well aware of Chatur's nature
Rancho substitutes some of the speech paper with obscene words which has
been written by the librarian. As expected, Chatur mindlessly memorises the
speech, aided by his lack of understanding of Hindi. His speech becomes the
laughing stock of the audience, infuriating the authorities in the process.

Meanwhile, Rancho also falls in love with ViruS' medical student daughter Pia
(Kareena Kapoor) when he, Raju and Farhan crash her sister's wedding
banquet in order to get a free meal, in the process further infuriating ViruS.

Meanwhile, the three students continue to anger ViruS, although Rancho

continues to come first in every exam, while Chatur is always second, and
Farhan and Raju are consistently in the last two positions. The tensions come
to a head when the three friends, who are already drunk, break into ViruS's
house at night to allow Rancho to propose to Pia, and then urinate on a door
inside the compound before running away when ViruS senses intruders. The
next day, ViruS threatens to expel Raju unless he talks on the other two.
Unable to choose between betraying his friend or letting down his family,
Raju jumps out of the 3rd floor window, but after extensive care from Pia and
his roommates, awakes from a coma.

The experience has changed Farhan and Raju, and they adopt Rancho's
outlook. Farhan decides to pursue his love of photography, while Raju takes
an unexpected approach for an interview for a corporate job. Farhan
succeeds in convincing his father to allow him pursue his own dream and
Raju attends the interview in plaster and a wheelchair and gives a series of
non-conformal and frank answers, succeeding in the result. However, ViruS is
unsympathetic and vows to make the final exam as hard as possible so that
Raju is unable to graduate and will lose the job. Pia hears this and takes
ViruS's spare keys with her. She tells Rancho of the exam, and he and
Farhan break into ViruS's office and steals 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. After that Pia angrily confronts him,
denoucning him for the death of his son and Pia's brother. Pia reveals that
her brother was not killed in an accident but committed suicide in front of a
train leaving a letter because ViruS had forced him to pursue a career in
engineering over his love for literature.
At the same time Viru's pregnant elder daughter Mona goes into labour. A
heavy storm cuts all power and traffic, and Pia is still in self-imposed exile, so
she instructs Rancho to deliver the baby in the college common room via
VOIP, after Rancho restores power using car batteries and a power inverter
that Rancho had dreamed up and ViruS had mocked. Rancho, Farhan, Raju
together deliver the baby with the help of a cobbled-together Vacuum
extractor.

After the baby is apparently stillborn, Rancho resuscitates it. ViruS reconciles
with Rancho and his friends and awards the pen to Rancho which the
professor had been keeping for decades before finding a brilliant enough
student to gift it to and allows the three to appear their final exams.

Their story is framed as intermittent flashbacks from the present day, ten
years after Chatur vowed revenge on Rancho for embarrassing him at the
speech night and promised to become more successful than Rancho a
decade later. Having lost contact with Rancho, who disappeared during the
graduation party and went into seclusion, Raju and Farhan begin a journey to
find him. They are joined by Chatur, now a wealthy and successful
businessman, who joins them, brazenly confident that he has surpassed
Rancho and also looking to seal a deal with a famous scientist and
prospective business associate named Phunsukh Wangdu. When they find
Rancho's house in Shimla, they find a completely different Rancho . from him
they come to know that their friend was a destitute servant boy "Chhote"
who loved learning, while he, the real Rancho, disliked study, so the family
agreed to let the servant boy study in Rancho's place instead of labouring. In
return, the real Rancho would pocket the qualifications and after graduating,
the servant boy will cease all contact. The real Rancho reveals that Chhote is
now a school-teacher in Ladakh.

Evaluation
Raju and Farhan then find Pia, and take her from her wedding mandap. Then
they arrive in Rancho’s school. Pia and the fake Rancho rekindle their love,
while Chatur mocks Rancho the school teacher. He asks Rancho to sign on a
"Declaration of defeat" document. And sees that Rancho is using the pen
which ViruS had gifted him. Chatur snatches the pen from Rancho and starts
to move back. When Rancho's friends ask what his real name is, he reveals
that his real name is Phunsukh Wangdu and makes a phone call to Chatur as
Phunsukh Wangdu, to tell him that he will not be able to sign the deal with
him because Chatur had taken his pen. Chatur is horrified accepts his defeat
and pleads his case with Phunsukh to establish the business relationship he
was after.

Evaluative Sumation

I think this story is very good. not only an entertaining storyline, but also
because a lot of lessons can we draw from this film. After watching this
movie a lot of lessons that we get. first, we must not despair in facing any problem.
We must trust and believe that we can face all problems and through all the
challenges. Because, basically, God would not also write an ordeal to humans
beyond the ability of human beings themselves. Secondly, kta have to love learning.
We should always learn, wherever we are, whatever our age, and as difficult as any
challenge to do so. Because learning is so important. From the study we can have a
very valuable knowledge, even more precious than gold. The third we must trust
our close friends, and loyal to him, whatever happens we have to always be there to
help him. The fourth one should always calm to face any situation at hand. We must
be able to think clearly in the face of every problem and do not panic. The fourth we
should not cheat in any activities, because if we mean to cheat we do not believe in
the ability of ourselves, and if we cheat, we will not get maximum results. The fifth
one should not underestimate others and willing to listen to any suggestions from
others if it indeed be constructive. What we do not moleh sixth impose our will on
others without asking if she was willing and agree to our will. And finally we must
always be positive minded to live a life in this world and willing to help people who
need assistance with no strings attached.