Remember how filmmakers used to give us aural cues on when to cry at the movies?
Yes, the one we still remember from Kabhi Khushi Gham Gham (Lata Mangeshkar’s haunting voice going ‘Aaa aaa aaaa?) also employed in other Johar-Chopra flicks. Rajkumar Hirani is the new carrier of that beacon of manipulative melodrama and I say that with great gratitude to Hirani and team. Lata Mangeshkar has been replaced by Shreya Ghoshal.
Over the last few years, filmmakers seemed to have lost their flair for drama. It was either muted and understated Farhan Akhtar style or pretentious cool deadpan from the Sanjay Gupta factory. It was either way over the top by the likes of Anil Sharma and camp or expressed through brooding intensity by Ram Gopal Varma’s ilk.
Good old tear-jerking drama with feel-good that we last saw only in the Munnabhai series is back. Now, Hirani is more Karan Johar than Johar himself used to be.
3 Idiots is your good old Hindi film that milks the Navrasas steeped in the Indian ethos and storytelling culture to make you laugh, cry, think and provoke. A forgotten tradition that only Bhansali, Johar and Hirani carry on.
For that reason alone, 3 Idiots is one of the best films this year.
Read the full review here.
MADRAS INK. 
Munna MBBS meets Tare Zameen Par.
Medical Campus changed into Engg Camp…Dyslexians are those poor Engg students. Xavier saints are Hirani MBBS and ‘Zameendar’ Aamir. MoU well signed between them.
Chetan Bhagat– a pickle of convenience!
Audience — Regular customers already to the franchises,will take a while to change…(untill next from Hirani esp..)
Oh! dear students pls.learn from that poor guy who ‘Muggs’ and definetely not from the “Scientist” Aamir.
Amen!
Yeah I guessed right.. No credits been given to Chetan Bhagat in title cards!! So sad..thso.. thso..
😛
i havnt watched enuf Hindi movies to be aware of the stereotypes but i surely enjoyed the movie. the trio was good. but during the movie, for a while i forgot that ther is a heroine in the movie. aamir-kareena chemistry is zero. but good humor, bearable drama and a feel-good-entertainer. and i feel extremely sorry for Chetan Bagat – “sorry man, no1 can screw-up your novel any better than this”…:-( not a good adaptation of the book
People who want to shout each other down over the rights or wrongs should be given Sthan-gun Silencer’s BOOMING Chamatkar (or should i say Balatkaar) Goli.
3 idiots, Tussi gr8 ho! Tofa Kaboooom karo!!!!
I found it a very mediocre movie. Yes, it had its share of good humor. But otherwise I didnt find it very appealing. I guess if you are a realist, you wouldnt talk about this movie the minute you are outside of the movie house. C’mon, using a vacuum cleaner during delivery? 😐