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“3 Idiots” is a comedy film directed by Rajkumar Hirani in which the friendship of three students who study at an Indian engineering college is a satire about the social pressures and difficulties under the Indian education system. This film is narrated through parallel dramas, one in the present and the other ten years in the past. The film also shows 3 main lessons of life that are unable to be taught by books but by new experiences, curiosity and the strong will for new knowledge.
The film talks about how three best friends from university, Farhan, Rancho, and Raju, are reunited after the long search of their friend Rancho who has a secret that he has been keeping from them since the day they met. The constant flashbacks between their years in university and the present show the process of their bonding and their friendship where they often got into amusing shenanigans involving the Dean of Delhi's Imperial College of Engineering, Viru Sahastrabudhe (nicknamed Virus), and dealt with some serious events that many people encounter in everyday life. The film portrays how Rancho teaches Farhan and Raju to think from a different perspective even though they are seen as “idiots” to the outside world.
The first main lesson of life is that you shouldn’t be rushing to seek success, this would lead to you being even more unsuccessful because if you rush the chances that you are focused is lower than not thinking about achieving great things. Rancho says, “Pursue excellence, then success will find you.”, the fact that the large majority of people are finding success not allowing success to find them as they are unable to achieve excellence. This excellence is when you are focused on the thing that you are passionate about and obsessed about then the success from that area will come to you.
The second lesson is to understand and be able to break down the knowledge you receive not memorize repetitively. Rancho says, “Learning is not memorizing the exact words from the book. Learning is understanding it and being able to explain it in your own words.”, this simple sentence portrays an idea of how modern-day students just memorize everything that they get in touch with but are unable to utilize it into good use. An example of this is when Rancho first appears in the university and uses the simple science which is learned in primary school to seek revenge on the senior student when he “pissed” in front of his dorm. Another example is when he was attending a class when he was asked to define a machine, but his definition was not accepted he was sent out of the classroom. However, he forgot his book and described it to his teacher by saying its features, he says, “Instruments that record analyze summarize organize debate and explain information which is illustrative non-illustrative hardbound paperback jacketed non-jacketed with forwarding introduction, table of contents, index that is intended for the enlightenment, understanding enrichment enhancement and education of the human brain through sensory root of vision,” showing how a simple object could be broken down into different bits which could also be described as creative. The third lesson is that you should be able to accept failure and learn to cope with failure itself and learn from it. In the film, Jay Lobo, one of the current students in the university, was creating a helicopter drone with a wireless camera to finish an assignment. He encounters Virus and presents him his own creation but due to the lateness and the incompleteness of the creation, he is unable to graduate which breaks his and his family’s heart, and he is unable to cope with such a large failure decides to take his life for it. If anyone takes everything seriously then the suicide rate would increase drastically. The pressures that students receive attending schools worldwide is high. Take Hong Kong as an example, nearly every student would live only for their marks in a test, what school they go to, their job. The typical ideology of Hong Kong people is to get into a good school, get into a job with a decent amount of salary and live up to other people’s expectations. However, not all people are able to be so successful, this is when they are now unable to learn and cope with different failures that they have leading to their miserable death. Benjamin Franklin once said, “Many people die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.”, this implies the effect that people receive when they are living the life for others. It is unrealistic. The fact that people aren’t allowed to be doing the thing that they want to be is not ethical.
In conclusion, I think the film brings out essential life lessons that are both useful and important to our daily human lives. I consider that the film is successful in every way as it is one of the highest-grossing Indian films overseas. The film also teaches every human being how to live properly and be unique and not live for others but for yourselves.
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