3 Idiots
iView Author: Santosh Kumar.T.K (U.S.A)
EMAIL: santydolby [at] gmail [dot] com
Title: 3 Idiots
Rarely have I seen such a film poster with so much simplicity yet with so much to say, visually at least!
Is it the colors, is it the font, is it the guy’s close hair cut or is it the t-shirt in its multiple folds?
or is it the name right at the bottom?
If only the film lives up to the promise.
I am reminded of the some of the most beautiful words I had come across, and something which I have believed in, and said in my own style quite often.
1. Purists/elitists read book.
2. Purists/elitists love book and praise book.
3. Purists/elitists find that common man too likes book.
4. Purists/elitists hate that common man likes book.
5. Purists/elitists hate book.
6. Purists/elitists pan movie based on book.
This could be applied to so many films, so many phenomena, and so many ideas. One has to just look around. Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone-What not to do at IIT, and Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code are some of the examples I could quote off hand. They might not be literary classics by any means, nor did they pretend ever to be but somewhere the mass popularity they garnered made the critics/purists/elitists resolve not to touch them by a proverbial barge pole later!!
I hope Raju Hirani does an encore and the movie has the Chopra/Hirani watermark. We do not want critics/purists/elitists telling us what to consume or rather what is fit to be. So long as a fare is entertaining and in the process makes some moolah, no harm. I reckon Chopra/Hirani duo with their core team is strong enough to have a firm belief in their ideology. For all the acerbic reactions he draws with his megalomania, Chopra and VVC along with Screwvala’s UTV are the true torch bearers of quality cinema in times to come in Bollywood. OK, may be add the Sippys, Ramesh/Rohan to that. If they make simplistic stuff which sets the BO on a fire, not necessarily an inferno, none should have a problem. If they set an unusually large number of tongues talking, let the purists not desert the gems crying, “shallow”, “superficial”.
Not taking anything away from their geniuses, I believe the cult status of a lot of Aziz Mirza’s movies, or Kundah Shah’s cinema is largely due to the fact that they were not exactly mass consumed products. I wonder if the modest JBDY would have the elitists laud it so much if it had been a blockbuster! Rakeysh Mehra’s Aks(2001) got labelled ahead of the times, but when he churned a less hostile Rang De Basanti (2006) it was called shallow. The same critics/elitists who went ga ga over it in the initial phase later washed their hands off the project because may be they wanted new stuff to cling on to. May be move on. Why? Because by now the entire world had woken up to the little genius of Rakeysh Mehra.
Holy shit! What else could explain the battering that was meted out to Guru (2007) which may be made more than all of the previous Mani Ratnam’s last 3 outings in the North (I am no Amod Mehra, or Mirani here)? But Dil Se of 1998 is a classic for reasons obvious now. It is so much about revenue here as it is about popularity (though they often go together).
Hirani! trust your instincts and give us your version of the novel. We will love it, laud it, discuss it, analyse it, dedicate fora to it, until it becomes mammoth that is. So what if we have to look elsewhere later. There are so many avant garde creators out there who will any way pander to us.
If the visual style of the teaser poster, and the supposed cast is anything to go by I have a winner on hands.
Thank you, JK
Tags: Aks, Aziz Mirza, dil se, Guru, kundan shah, mani ratnam, Raju Hirani, Rakeysh Mehra, VV Chopra, World Cinema
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nice read thanks for sharing
i loved the purists/elitists thing its so true and its something most of use pseudos succumb to
the poster is really good and im with you on this one if the visual style of the poster is anything to go bye then we have a winner
Really great poster..atleast for me.
calculus, differentiation and integration on a movie poster ..
awesome..
every year more than 3 lack engineers come out of different engineering colleges..they form a large part of movie goers , especially in metros..hope this movie will bring out the nice and not so nice moments of hostel and classroom life of a engineering colleges.
BTW who are in the leading role?
Thanx fo rthe poster.
But ehat exactly sis you mean by ‘torch bearers of quality cinema’? Please be kind enough to explain what flash of brilliance did you see in Rohan Sippy? Does he even know the difference between a film and cinema?
@FaltuTimePass
ryan – aamir khan
hari – madhavan
alok – sharman joshi
prof. cherian – boman irani
prof. cherian’s daughter – kareena kapoor
ryan -> aamir khan? Is this a mithun film or what? Even Madhavan is no college kid. AK should have stayed away from this even if the script was good. Even good filmakers these days cant think of a world beyond stars. Why not three young guys who can at least play their age?If you have solid script and an able director you dont have to worry about the stars.Sharman joshi is fine. But there are quite a nice bunch of young, talented people like kunal kapoor, Neil Nitin Mukesh and Imran Khan who cud easily play these roles. Even Kunal Khemu is a good choice. Anything but a 44 yr old guy playing a 19-20 college fresher.
i agree rudro very true
Aamir should opt for roles that’ll suit his personality + age too.
The poster is truly very impressive…hmm thoughtful too
lets see how d movie will b like
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code is well worth a read
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i recommend Siddarth n Kunal Kapoor instead of Aamir n Maddy!
add ranvir shorey to the cast – he is any day better than imran khan or kunal.
yeah why aamir khan to play a college kid and even madhavan ? it will totally ruin the film. its shld be new guys…sharman is ok he can pull it off. and if aamir is not playing collge kid the what is he doin ? have they changed the script for him ?
yeah why aamir khan to play a college kid and even madhavan ? it will totally ruin the film. its shld be new guys…sharman is ok he can pull it off. and if aamir is not playing collge kid the what is he doin ? have they changed the script for him ? that will again ruin the film
Hey search for the poster of this 2006 film called “Half Nelson”.the green chalk board…..a man standing in front of it….do have a look…..I love the 3 Idiots poster…still could be an original thought….but this Half Nelson has some similarities….just similar…but do dekho
Vasan,
I guess the similarity ends with green board! 3-I design could be more of a guy who has been driven up the wall [green board?! :-)] by the “system”.
sadly this movie will be ruined by the presence of ms kapoor.
Bang on Vasanbala; the poster indeed seems to be inspired from Half Nelson..
@ Rudro, Kunal: I second you absolutely. But, I dont think the movie wud be a replica of the book, thats what I have heard. Because, Chetan has been excluded from the creative think tank and I guess the movie would be about ‘3 Students’ not neccesarily in an undergraduate setting struggling and surviving amidst the bad grades. But, all said and done, Aamir and Madhavan don’t fit into the scheme of things. Also, perosnally harman would have been better as a cynic, confused, romantic Hari. Anyways, let’s wait and see. The start, excludign the poster, doesn’t look very encouraging!
Oh shit I’m sorry. Its not harman but should be Sharman. Oh my what difference an ’s’ can make :D
And what does the guy posture signify?…Doesnt seem to make much sense….
The casting seems quite odd to me. BTW, nice teaser poster (though it looks more like a book cover actually), but the article is kinda pointless.
Liked FPS- was a nice read- light and heartfelt. unfortunately, Bhagat has chosen to get into the rut of his own formula and refused to grow as a writer, and hence his subsequent books haven’t really been great, the last being a disaster.
i think madahavan fits the character and so does sharman joshi
aamir has the looks for ryan but then again i wonder if he can pull it off
aamir was believable as a student in rdb to me only because they said that he had chsoen to stay back in uni for more than one year
although im very sure of one thing these three actors can create true beleivable chemistry between them
the poster is designed by rahul & himanshu nanda..& they always get ‘inspired’ by hollywood film posters, getty images, etc..they can never come up with anything original..
@ricky,
which one is this ‘inspiration’ from ??