The practical front_the 3 idiots: It was about a month back from n...

The practical front_the 3 idiots:

It was about a month back from n...: "It was about a month back from now when I finally got to watch Rajkumar Hirani's finnest flick of the decade. The spontane..."

It was about a month back from now when I finally
got to watch Rajkumar Hirani's finnest flick of the decade. The spontaneity, hilarious moments, certain characters merely reduced to caricature in the film, all make it a "massive letdown".
Practically, to begin with,
the "Jahapana, tussi great ho..."ragging, with pants dropping down, reminds me of the first few months of my first year in my college. Things are harsher than potrayed in the movie guys, so watch out! If a fresher tries to act "technically smart" like Ranchoddas, he could be short circuited in return! Personally I hated my seniors because "seniors" never liked their juniors acting smarter or even dressing better than them.
On a lighter note,
which guy doesn't like to make it like a hero.
He idolizes characters like Ranchoddas, but very few think like the way he did. More obstacles are sure to come his way when he tries to revolutionize like Rancho, than Rancho himself faces."Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater". was a saying by Roman Polanski, and this movie effortlessly does so. But these are the facts that clicked me when I came out of the theater, from the view point of an engineering student.
Again, "five point something"(referring to the book Five Point Someone) , I mean to say low grades like five and six points in the Semesters won't fetch you a job, "practically", neither good nor an average one. Recruiters don't offer jobs during the campus interviews merely by seeing one's attitude but by assessing the grades and the work. I really wish things were as simple as (Sharman Joshi) Raju Rastogi's "
brrruuummmmm" as an answer to '...in that case, how does an induction motor start?..'..one of the most eccentric statement in the film.
Finally, Farhan's(R Madhavan) dream to become a wildlife photographer becomes true. "Engineering was never his passion". Yet, he carried on with it for eight dreary semesters.He finally worked up his guts to bunk the final campus 'interview',but who do you think will practically do that after slogging out oneself in a college for 4 years, and that too only to convince a 'dad'! Now that, 'all' ending of a movie should be 'happy' and 'well', to leave the audience with a 'feel-good' factor, this is no exception, for the sake of entertainment. Even if the son is able to convince his parents to pursue a different course, something that he is passionate about, there arises other problems like affordability, availability of seats, etc. in spite of having required marks, to be more specific. In fourteen years of my academic career, I ve met several engineers working as bank-officers, several wanna-be medicos studying English or engineering, English graduates doing computer courses, and so on. The reason was nothing like what happened to Farhan, but because the engineer was not comfortable with the pressure of a IT company, perhaps... because the medical aspirant could not make it to a medical college with a good rank, and the 'capitation fees' system is not for everyone, ...and because the English graduate was not able to find a job in her stream.
On a lighter note, as Rancho convincingly repeats , the 'system' needs a makeover. Things are a bit more difficult in the real life than the reel life. There is a Chatur existing in every college and every school , whom others ridicule. Yet they come out with the highest marks in class. And sometimes , unknowingly we adopt to 'chatur's' methods on nights before exam. In accordance to the present system , which empowers you with conventional wisdom Chatur's ways of memorizing are practical, obviously with some basic understanding, else we know the 'baladkar' and 'stan' type consequences.
However, the film is entertaining and most importantly enlightening...a comic relief to our mechanized lives.It is difficult for a natural genius to fit into an Indian classroom where people mug up to rise. 80% of the ideas portrayed in the film is true and 'practical'. It is only the remaining 20% that did not appeal to my views, being into the engineering field and knowing what is what.