3 Cheers for Raju's 3 Idiots...

The director who created Munnabhai, has delivered his third baby 6 days before the current decade comes to an end. He has been a great find as a director in this decade. And the verdict, he has ended as a winner and the audience is now having sky-high expectations from him from now onwards in the coming decade. No point in comparing his "3 Idiots" with the Munnbhai series as it won't yield any concrete result. This movie is completely different in all its aspects and comes with a more realistic and relevant theme/message than Munnabhai, yet it has all the ingredients to appeal even the tier-E cities of India. So the box office will be on fire and the producers, distributors, theatre-owners will be singing all the way to their bank accounts. At the end of it all, a normal movie-goer who paid more than ever before to watch this movie due to a hike in cost of the tickets won't feel like being treated as a 4th idiot.

It may not be the greatest work of both Raju Hirani nor Amir Khan, but it's a movie that's going to be added in their list of hits. Many of the critics felt that this flick is not as good as the Munnabhai series, but for me it has got its heart at the right place and strikes the right chord for today's parents and youth. Especially when you think of a year badly hit by multiplex strike, string pathetic movies and uncountable flops, such movies make a great end to such an unlucky year for Indian cinema. In this review(let me call few such write-ups as 'reviews', plz) I won't be talking to about any technical details. As the movie asks you not to, just say...all is well. The ensemble cast puts a good show apart from the usual Kareena from whom I don't even expect anything in terms of acting. She lives up to my expectation! Only thing where I felt bad is the credits at the start where Kareena's came ahead of Madhavan & Sarman which is a complete injustice to these two actors and Kareena would even admit it. Raju could have easily cut down on the romantic song between Amir & Kareena which was unnecessary and a big waste of time and few filmy scenes. But again, as I said, in India you can grab tier-E audiences with all these formula and Raju/Amir executes all possible formula in this film.

I would like to overlook the all the small loopholes/filmy-things and would suggest you to catch the heart of the movie and think for a moment what you are doing with your life. Don't just say all is well as the movie/Amir asks you to....question everything...that's the larger perspective "3 Idiots" has taught me... Go for it...

Verdict: 3.5 out of 5