Rajkumar Hirani has made 3 Idiots on the screen and 3 million idiots in front of it.
For all the hype in the media and among the movie goers and for the director's pedigree,I chose to watch 3 Idiots in a theatre.
The first half an hour went okay. Particularly the sequence in which a student hangs himself. The transformation from fun to tragedy in a minute was excellent. It also made me believe that a dark film was in store for me. What followed was a mega serial on big screen.The way the story unfolds suggests you are watching a TV soap,not a film.
Let me ask a few questions to the people who loved the film. To make a film,you have a plot,a script and dialogues. And then the plot is executed as a film. Come back to 3 Idiots. What is Rajkumar Hirani's contribution as a director here? Is film making just the plot,script and dialogues? Where has gone shot-making? Where is execution here? Gentleman Hirani has forgotten cinema's proxy name, motion picture. At least in three quarters of the film, I didn't feel like watching a motion picture.
For every ten minutes someone weeps badly and gets on our nerves. And in fact I cried in a sequence whenMadhavan's father agrees to his son's career switch. I cried at Mr.Grace of Tamil Cinema's fate of being reduced to a mega serial star. Add to it,the background score and the mega serial is complete. That is one of the worst film sequences I have ever watched. Is Hirani a film maker or a stage play director?
Ameer Khan lets out a barrage of thoughts in the film. Sadly,there are not many of them,which wouldn't have struck anyone who has crossed 25. If the system is faulty and stupid,then the movie is more stupid than the system it denounces. Mr.Hirani,please do some justice to the trade you are in and then criticize the system!
I can tolerate a bad film, but not a TV series played in theatres.
Rating : * (Actually,I have dropped another star,which the movie deserves,for launching an attack on my cinema senses)
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