The Chetan Chronicles

A Lovely end to the year of 2009 with the awesome movie that made a record collection. Its ‘3 Idiots’ infact 3 smart idiots who stole the weekend of many Indians at the moment all around the world. I was always an ardent fan of the perfectionist called Ameer Khan.. even though my love for his movies only started after ‘Lagaan’ and continued with Dil chahtha hai, Tare Zameen Par etc… Sometimes, as a person I am a bit disappointed with controversial activities which is more of degrading himself to a person of his caliber… It is understandable that You can not be a 99% perfect human or a Rajnikanth…. To be most popular and equally modest…. ; )

The other person who is in line to lose the respect is the India’s best selling author Chetan Bagath…. I always cherished every moment reading his books… I so far have managed to read all his 4 books which is a big achievement for myself for my poor reading standards…. I mananged to see the movie ‘3 idiots’ on the ultimate day of 2009 with my mates here after hearing its adapted from his first and famous book ‘five point some one’… I was waiting to watch the movie longtime as I can imagine the quality work if giants like ameer, raju hirani and the book of Chetan combines….



No doubt, the movie is absolute spot on with the racy screenplay, pleasant college atmosphere, peppy music and ameer khan above all…. One thing I find wicked with Indian movies for a long long time …. In 1960’s ace actor MGR used to just paste a moustache or a mole to change his look up… In 2009, madhavan did nothing but just shaved his mush and changed the hairstyle to show his 10 years back flashback in his college days…. Watch ‘Curious case of Benjamin button’, you can see same Brad pitt taken in atleast 5-8 get ups ranging ages from 10-60 and you cant guess if he is Brad pitt or some other actor…. I am only being a rude critic here inspite of the movie’s (3 idiots) subject is the theme & screenplay but not make ups… He He He !!! (Manufacturing defect)

The biggest and only let down in the movie is the super hero image of Ameer khan which he got himself… Here are the reasons

- Don’t even think u can get away by being a wise crack and give a shock to your College senior’s private part and get away with your rest of the life in college. Unless you don’t have a private part…. Boss, in ragging, its seniors who should rule anywhere in India…. Wat happened in movie is just a mild version of heroism which doesn’t insults viewers intelligence…. Thaz all

- Going and doing what your heart says is a great thing that Indians are missing.. I agree, but imagine if you are pathetic with your photographic skills and what if you lose your studies and career on your pursuit of being a great photographer with out possessing even a beginner skills…. For me, there is a thick line of difference between talented and interested… Ideally, madhavan should have taken up the job and tried his luck with photography instead dumping up his career right from the beginning… I wouldn’t agree he cant be intrsted in studies otherwise he cant pass through engineering….non-practical end for maddy here

- Don’t assume if you are 100% honest in your job interview you can crack on anything… specially when you have attitude problem…. How many of us will dare to try that…. Its seriously not practical…

- Rancho (Aameer) can possibly do anything in this movie… he is just a super man…. Given a choice any tom dick and harry would love to be a Rancho… but I can bet my pay on the fact that its tough to spot even 1 in 1000 with a character like that…. Its not practical again….

- The professor is such a hypothetical character…. I know there are lots of weird psychic professors in india but not mad enough to pressure a student to suicide level and still not correcting himself…. He is a human being after all…

The major reason for the movie’s success is Rancho’s super hero image, intelligent but a comedian professor, the extra talented friends but suppress ther talent only to project protagonist’s image, the locations and more importantly the engineering jokes used all over the movie…. Sure Raju Hirani is genius…. But I loved his Munnabhai series better insense of blending message with light hearted fun…..

Alright… my point of the post is different… I am not sure why Chetan Bhagath degrade himself claiming the credits/royalty/whatever from the makers of 3 Idiots when his book (Five point some one) is far better classic than the movie… I guess he disappointed his fans by his act of even responding or creating the controversy that sprunged up as a rift between Chetan and Raju Hirani…. Chetan never used the above mentioned let down reasons in his book as his book was far more realistic considering the backdrop of an IIT institute…

My feed back of the movie is, an awesome entertainer for a common man…. For Chetan Bagath’s fans, don’t try to compare the movie with book and take sides… they both are different at their own merits….

For those confused people who are fan of Raju Hirani, Amir khan and Chetan Bagath, Jus add another post to your blog and confuse readers too…. !!!