3 Idiots.

3 Idiots
Directed by
Rajkumar Hirani
Starring
Aamir Khan
R. Madhavan
Sharman Joshi
Kareena Kapoor
Boman Irani
Music by
Shantanu Moitra
3 Idiots (Hindi: ) is a 2009 Bollywood comedy film directed by Rajkumar

Hirani. It was loosely adapted from the novel Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat.
The film also went on to win many awards, winning six Filmfare Awards including best
film and best director, ten Star Screen Awards and 16 IIFA awards.
Plot
Farhan Qureshi (R. Madhavan), Raju Rastogi (Sharman Joshi), and Rancchoddas
Shyamaldas Chanchad "Rancho" (Aamir Khan) are three engineering students who share
a room in a hostel at the Imperial College of Engineering. Rancho irritates his lecturers
by giving creative and unorthodox answers.
Threatened by Rancho's talent and free spirit, Virus labels him an "idiot" and attempts on
a number of occasions to destroy his friendship with Farhan and Raju, warning them and
their parents to steer clear of Rancho. In contrast, Virus model student is Chatur
Ramalingam or "Silencer", (Omi Vaidya) who sees a high rank at the prestigious college.
Rancho humiliates Chatur, who is awarded the honour of making a speech at an award
ceremony, by substituting some words with the others in the text, which has been written
by the librarian. As expected, Chatur mindlessly memorises the speech, without noticing
that something is wrong, partly aided by his lack of knowledge on Hindi. His speech
becomes the laughing stock of the audience, infuriating the authorities in the process.
Meanwhile, Rancho also falls in love with Virus' medical student daughter Pia (Kareena
Kapoor) when he, Raju and Farhan crash her sister's wedding banquet in order to get a
free meal, in the process further infuriating Virus.
Meanwhile, the three students continue to anger Virus, although Rancho continues to
come first in every exam, while Chatur is always second, and Farhan and Raju are
inevitably in the last two positions. The tensions come to a head when the three friends,
who are already drunk, break into Viruss house at night to allow Rancho to propose to
Pia, and then urinate on a door inside the compound before running away when Virus
senses intruders. The next day, Virus threatens to expel Raju lest he talks on the other
two. Unable to choose between betraying his friend or letting down his family, Raju
jumps out of the 3rd floor window and lands on a courtyard, but after extensive care from
Pia and his roommates, awakes from a coma.
The experience has changed Farhan and Raju, and they adopt Rancho's outlook. Farhan
decides to pursue his love of photography, while Raju takes an unexpected approach for
an interview for a corporate job. He attends in plaster and a wheelchair and gives a series
of non-conformal and frank answers. However, Virus is unsympathetic and vows to make
the final exam as hard as possible so that Raju is unable to graduate. Pia hears him and
angrily confronts him, and when Virus gives the same ruthless reply he gives to his
students, she denounces him in the same way that Rancho did over the suicide of Lobo.
Pia reveals that Viruss son and her brother was not killed in an accident but committed
suicide in front of a train and left a letter because Virus had forced him to pursue a career
in engineering over his love for literature; Virus always mentioned that he
unsympathetically failed his son on the ICE entrance exams over and over to every new
intake of ICE students. After this, Pia walks out on the family home, and takes Viruss
spare keys with her. She tells Rancho of the exam, and he and Farhan break into Viruss
office and steal the exam and give it to Raju, who with his new-found attitude, is
unconcerned with the prospect of failing, and refuses to cheat and throws the paper away.
However, Virus catches the trio and expels them on the spot. A heavy storm cuts all
power and traffic, and Pia is busy, so she instructs Rancho to deliver the baby.
After the baby is apparently stillborn, Rancho resuscitates it. Virus reconciles with
Rancho and his friends and allows them to take their final exams and they graduate.
Rancho comes first and is awarded Viruss pen, which the professor had been keeping for
decades before finding a brilliant enough student to gift it to.
Their story is framed as intermittent flashbacks from the present day, ten years after
Chatur vowed revenge on Rancho for embarrassing him at the speech night and promised
to become more successful than Rancho a decade later. Having lost contact with Rancho,
who disappeared during the graduation party and went into seclusion, Raju and Farhan
begin a journey to find him. They are joined by Chatur, now a wealthy and successful
businessman, who joins them, brazenly confident that he has surpassed Rancho. Chatur is
also looking to seal a deal with a famous scientist and prospective business associate
named Phunsukh Wangdu. Chatur sees Wangdu for his official work.When they find
Rancho's house, they walk into his father's funeral, and find a completely different
Rancho (Jaaved Jaffrey). After accusing the new man of stealing their friend's identity
and profiting from his intellect, the host pulls a gun on them, but Farhan and Raju turn
the tables by seizing the father's ashes and threatening to flush them down the toilet. The
householder capitulates and says that their friend was a destitute servant boy who loved
learning, while he, the real Rancho, was a lazy wealthy child who disliked study, so the
family agreed to let the servant boy study in Rancho's place instead of labouring. In
return, the real Rancho would pocket the qualifications and the benefits thereof, while the
impersonator would sever all contact with the world and start a new life. The real Rancho
reveals that his impersonator is now a schoolteacher in Ladakh.
Raju and Farhan then find Pia, and take her from her wedding day to Suhas by
performing the same tricks with his material possessions, and having Raju turn up to the
ceremony disguised as the groom and eloping with Pia in public. When they arrive in
Ladakh, they see a group of enthusiastic Ladakhi children who are motivated by love of
knowledge. Pia and the fake Rancho rekindle their love, while Chatur mocks and abuses
Rancho the schoolteacher. He asks Rancho to sign on a DECLARATION OF DEFEAT
document. And sees that Rancho is using the pen which Virus had gifted him. Chatur
snatches the pen from Rancho and starts to move back. When Rancho's friends ask what
his real name is, he reveals that his real name is Phunsukh Wangdu and phones Chatur,
who has turned his back, and tells him that he will not be able to sign the deal with him
because he has his pen. He asks Chatur to turn around meet his prospective business
partner. Chatur is horrified and falls to his knees, accepts his defeat and continues to
plead his case with Phunsukh to establish the business relationship he was after.

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