A mixture of Chetan Bhaghat’s Five Point Someone and Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the movie dwells around a college rebel, who just sees things differently from the others and hence becomes something like an outcast; just that, in the modern world, some find it amusing and hence join hands with him in his acts. Of course, these are not really encouraged by the money-minded (no offense) parents, who have been brought up in such a society, whose upbringing and the so-called society has taught them that money is everything in life. The ultimate goal, and the destiny, and any other synonym you can find for it.
The first half of the movie is basically “(A boy’s) Life at a Top Engineering College”, with all necessary details of a common student’s behavior in the dorms and the classrooms and outside. It talks about all the pressure kinds – faculty, peer, parents, ragging and stuff. Just like the novel, these incidents are also not given in unnecessary detail, but given in just the right amounts to create the required impact. The ‘Chetan Bhagat way’ is shown in the rebellious kid ‘Rancho’, who dares to be intelligently different, dares to pursue his dreams, and has his own, simple, but powerfully inspiring philosophies. He criticizes the good, bad and ugly (more of the last two), of the educational system and the society flocking behind it and tries to make the others understand the same.
The first half of the movie is basically “(A boy’s) Life at a Top Engineering College”, with all necessary details of a common student’s behavior in the dorms and the classrooms and outside. It talks about all the pressure kinds – faculty, peer, parents, ragging and stuff. Just like the novel, these incidents are also not given in unnecessary detail, but given in just the right amounts to create the required impact. The ‘Chetan Bhagat way’ is shown in the rebellious kid ‘Rancho’, who dares to be intelligently different, dares to pursue his dreams, and has his own, simple, but powerfully inspiring philosophies. He criticizes the good, bad and ugly (more of the last two), of the educational system and the society flocking behind it and tries to make the others understand the same.
Daring to be different from the base novel FPS, the protagonist’s character has a twist to his story, in that he is not really who he claims to be. Unexpected things happen, like he vanishes from the lives of those whose lives he himself changed, someone else is found in his place when searched for and so on.
Going through all these twists and turns which help in giving a satisfactorily suspense struck intermission, the story goes back and forth between the past and the present to explain the complete happenings comprehensively in the second half.
Though the hint is given in the first half about the importance of “Excellence over Grades”, it is in the second half that we see the wings of Jonathan Livingston Seagull gracefully spanning across the screen.
With the ‘3 idiots’ trying to pursue their dreams, starkly different from their flock and away from the fear of failure and moving towards an unlimited expanse where thought and deed know no boundaries, where perfection and learning matter more than the money (read food), we see a smiling Richard Bach’s triumph shone in Chetan Bhagat’s eyes.
Going through all these twists and turns which help in giving a satisfactorily suspense struck intermission, the story goes back and forth between the past and the present to explain the complete happenings comprehensively in the second half.
Though the hint is given in the first half about the importance of “Excellence over Grades”, it is in the second half that we see the wings of Jonathan Livingston Seagull gracefully spanning across the screen.
With the ‘3 idiots’ trying to pursue their dreams, starkly different from their flock and away from the fear of failure and moving towards an unlimited expanse where thought and deed know no boundaries, where perfection and learning matter more than the money (read food), we see a smiling Richard Bach’s triumph shone in Chetan Bhagat’s eyes.
PS: Messages from the movie
• Follow your dreams, not money, to be happy forever
• Live for today, not for yesterday or tomorrow
• Consider the opinions of those who matter, not every Tom, Dick and Harry consisted in the Society
And…
• Do not go behind success. Strive towards excellence, and success would follow you!
Comments
I feel somewhere the structure of your write ups are incomplete (For (ex)the last time my heart danced, In the Mariana Trench lives a kid), but this one is an excellent piece of work.. Please note that I do not intend to criticize your earlier works, I hope you understand..
Review is something which I would love to write but unable to :-( Shall take lessons from you :-)..
Good work, keep going... I feel your core competence is writing reviews :-)
Not sure if I am as good as to give lessons! ;)
And just to clarify, some of my write-ups have been left kind of open for the thought process to continue beyond the written word. :) Guess the motive is achieved then! ;)