3 Idiots

Assuming I watched the 3 idiots, the first time Farhan was shown was when he was going somewhere around the world and suddenly Chatur, the one that is called Silencer because of being noisy when studying and able to fart slowly but deadly, called him because Chatur said that he already knew where Ranchodas Shamaldas Chanchad is at. After that, Farhan suddenly pretended to be sick because the airplane already went off the ground and that means that he can’t let the plane land unless there was an emergency incident that happened. So what Farhan did was he pretended himself to be sick and after that the plane went for emergency landing and what he did after bringing him to the airport was that he did stretch to show that he was okay. For me, Farhan was the good friend that is like loyal to Rancho. After that scene, Farhan called Raju Rastogi because they were considered as the 3 idiots when they were an engineering student at Imperial College of Engineering. He went to Raju, he had no pants that time and that seemed kind of a funny for me. I would want to reflect on Farhan Qureshi’s Life. For me, his life was quite a strange and a realistic one because he was pressured being something that he doesn’t want to be. In the movie 3 idiots, he was being pressured as an Engineer because his parents decide his fate when he was born. Even though he doesn’t want to, he was forced to go to school at Imperial College of Engineering and there he would go to school as an engineer even though he doesn’t want to be one. He does want to become a nature photographer in which his parents especially his father doesn’t want him to be. He was provided almost everything he needs, like the one where his father bought a laptop for him because he thought it was useful for his job as something that he doesn’t want to be. It was engineering that he doesn’t want to be. When he went to the Imperial College of Engineering, he met Ranchodas 'Rancho' Shamaldas Chanchad. Ranchodas Shamaladas Chanchad also known as Rancho was first seen by Farhan at their first night at their college when Rancho did not do the ritual that were required for them to do. But what Rancho did was that he didn’t follow what the seniors said and he electrocuted one of the senior leaders in there and he was Farhan’s roommate at the same time. One of the things I noticed about Farhan was that, he always listens to Rancho’s advices and he never stay away from him even though their director thinks that Rancho is a bad influence to them and even though he was commanded from his parents that he must stay away from him. He was a passionate at being a photographer in which the parents think was just a silly hobby but for him it was his ultimate passion. For me, Farhan was quite a pity because like most of people I knew, he was being forced by his parents to take on something that he doesn’t want to be.

Like someone I knew, he want to be an architect but what he took during college was Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. When I asked him why, he said because it was his parents’ decision and also because the one who funds him for his college was his parents so he had no choice but to follow the decision of his parents to so he can satisfy his parents’ happiness and lives. What I can say in that decision was that he must convince his parents that he wants to go to that course instead of the course his parents wants him to be because the one who would regret in his or her endlife would only be him or herself because he or she did not do what he or she wants to be in his or her life. Also, even though his or her parents doesn’t want what their children decided what he or she wants to be, the parents only wants his or her child to be happy in life because even though he or she satisfied what the parents want him or her to be, he or she would never satisfy him or herself because he did something that he doesn’t want to do. Throughout the story, he was the type of character in which always goes with the flow of what his friend Rancho did. He was Ranchos’ partner in crime in almost what he all did. When he and Rancho and Raju went drinking, he promised that he would confront his parents that he doesn’t want to become what they want him to be and convinces his parents that he wants to be a photographer a job that he wants to do for as long as Rancho confessed to Pia, his lover, that he loves her. At the end, he did what he must do and that is to convince his parents that he wants to be a photographer and not an engineer. I can understand the pain for Farhan because I kind of experience what his parents has done to him. I was being chosen if I will go to a prestigious university near Jacinto or the university with good standards in Obrero but what I really want was neither of the two but still I am thankful for it. I think that what the parents of Farhan think is that Engineering was the best job for him because they saw the world where engineers can make them become famous and rich and everything that you ever wish for. He was provided almost everything he needs, like the one where his father bought a laptop for him because he thought it was useful for his job as something that he doesn’t want to be. It was engineering that he doesn’t want to be. However, what they did not see is that the offspring or the son was not even happy for what the parents chose for him or her. I understand that parents only want the best for their child but what about their own happiness? So when the parents die happily because the offspring chose the future they have chosen for him, will the offspring be happy in his or her death bed? The answer is the offspring would not be happy unless the path of the child that the parents chose was beneficial or also the path that the child favors.

Example, when the offspring is born, the parents said that he or she must be an engineer when he or she grows up, but later years he realized he wants to be an artist, and the parents thought that being an artist does not make you earn enough money for the living, so the offspring chose the engineering path and he fulfills the wishes of his parents until they die but did they ever ask the child of what path he or she wants his or her life? Did they ever think about the happiness? And in this situation, the child will likely be in sorrow and will blame himself for all the bad decisions he made in his life. In another example, when the offspring was born, the parents said that be in the path that you wanted to be, and when he or she was growing up he or she was never pressured in a path and at the right age, he or she chose the path and the parents just supported him or her. In the two situations I have given, who do you think would be happier in their death bed? The first one which is forced to take the path that is decided by his or her parents but never has the happiness to do it, or the second in which he or she took advantage of the free will and which is also supported by his or her parents. And yes, what you think is right, the person in the second situation would be more happier in his or her death bed than the first one because what I think in the first one is that he or she is just following what the superiors say, just like in 3 idiots, all the students only follow what the professors say and never intend to think of new ideas, while in the second situation, he or she chose his or her path to his or her happiness, then I can say that what the person did in the second situation is making his or her life more happy the way he or she is. What happened in the first situation is also what happened to Farhan Qureshi. Farhan Qureshi was being raise into this world with the thinking that he must make his parents happy so I would be what they wanted to be but in his heart he really wants to be a photographer and not an engineer like his parents wants him to be.

So when he went to the Imperial College of Engineering, and befriend Ranchodas Shamaldas Chanchad, he and the other two were being reprimanded by the Virus or the director because they were hard headed and their grade was failing. He also said that “It is sad when you knew that your friend failed. But it is more depressing when your friend top and you do not.” It is kind of true because, I had a best friend in high school and in college which also I worried too. When they were reprimanded by Virus and wrote a letter for both Farhan and Raju, they went first to Farhan’s house and Rancho discovered there that he really wants to be a nature photographer and he idolizes one foreign photographer and he wants to be an apprentice for this guy. Farhan is an example of being just a follower in the society because of his superiors also known as his parents. He was provided almost everything he needs, like the one where his father bought a laptop for him because he thought it was useful for his job as something that he doesn’t want to be. It was engineering that he doesn’t want to be. Because of this, sometime children tend to do suicide just like another character in the movie named Joy Lobo. He is an almost graduating student and because of just a single project he could not finish but towards the end, Rancho finished but in the wrong time because it was too late. Joy Lobo committed suicide because I think that he can’t take anymore the pressure he is currently keeping in himself. We all know that being pressured is normal in college and in life but too much pressure is a no no because it can add damages to our wounds that we have. I mean, being too much pressured is bad because not only your brain would be affected but also, the work that you are currently doing would be affected too. Also, we human do not deserved to be pressured too much. Life is a free yet complicated one but we must not pressure ourselves on what we are going to do, what we must do and what we are going to do. We must enjoy life, there would be pressure but it is always normal in life. It will never ever be gone and we must be ready for it whenever it comes so college is there to prepare us for it but never too much on being pressured. Also, Farhan is a good example because he confronted his parents about his dreams. Towards at the end of the movie, Rancho always buy books that he always publishes and he discovered that because of the maintenance or the janitor guy named Millimeter, that is now called Centimeter.

Assuming I watched the “3 idiots” movie, I also want to reflect on Ranchodas Smaldas Chanchad’s life also known as Rancho. The first time he appeared in the movie was when Farhan Qureshi and Raju Rastogi were in kind of like an initiation in a fraternity held by the higher years in their university. What they did was they let them remove their pants and do some weird tricks or acts like the James Bond which Chatur did and more and suddenly, Rancho came in with his water jug. The seniors told him that he must also do what the others want to do (like removing pants and do any weird thing). After that, Rancho did not follow their orders so what the seniors did is that they pour water in Rancho’s pants so they can provoke him and force him to remove it but what Rancho did was that he rushed to his room, which is also the room of Farhan and Raju, and planned something. When he went to his room, the seniors provoked and the leader threatened to pee in his door, so what Rancho did is that when the leader had a countdown, he made a device in which could electrocute someone in a minimum amount when wet so, when the leader peed on it he was directly electrocuted. After that, the friendship of the 3 progressed. At one situation, when he was being called because of smiling in the class, he described the word “Machines” in the most simple form I have ever heard and it was “Anything that simplifies work is a machine.” and so on and so forth but what the professor did was that he rejected it and called Chatur and what Chatur answered was that “Machines are any combinations of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained and by which means, force and motion may be transmitted and modified as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot etc. especially a construction, more or less complex consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical as wheels, levers, cams etc.” and then he accepted it but Rancho insisted because there were so many definitions and it is too long. For me, a short and more meaningful definition was better than a long and too many worded sentence because in real life, they just do it simply and not complex. What I mean is that in life, all a human wants is becoming simple and not making it complicated or complex. Next is that in one situation when Virus said that he will give the special ballpoint pen he has to the most excellent student he asked that why don’t astronauts use a pencil because it is cheaper and much easier to erase than a ballpoint pen. After that, he advised Millimeter because he wants to go to school and he does not have the money, so what Rancho did was that he gave him money and told him that he just needs to buy a uniform and join in because he would not be notice too because of the crowded students in the school. What I think about that is that it is kind of a brilliant idea when you want to go to school but you do not have the money to spend for education. The next is that there was once a student named Joy Lobo whose project is always rejected by the Director so after Joy Lobo threw his project, the miniature helicopter, he saw it and he said it was a great innovation so what he did is he fixed and modified the device to make it more functional and more useful than the previous one, he had sleepless nights and he always tested it so it would be functional in any case. After he fixed, modified and do whatever it takes to finish and polish the device, he was too late because he was the first to discover and knew that Joy Lobo committed suicide because of the pressure he received after being rejected and knowing that he cannot graduate that year. When most of the one that knew Joy Lobo went to the funeral, he told Virus that what happened was a murder and not suicide and he said the suspect should be the pressure that killed him. So after that day, Virus talked to Rancho and he reprimanded him because of what Rancho said and he let him lecture the class because Virus thinks that Rancho is better than the highly qualified teachers in the university. When he taught them, he let them search the definition of “Farhanitrate” and “Prerajulization” for 30 seconds so the students searched and searched and searched for the meaning but even after 30 seconds, he said that when they searched for the meaning, did they get excited for learning something new? Did they become even curious for those words? What increased in their mind was not intelligence but the pressure was the one increasing in your mind just like what happened to Joy Lobo. He said that instead of learning, the students went and involve themselves in a frantic race. He also said that what is the use of these if it does not increase your knowledge but only your pressure in your mind? I think he has a point what he said because most students in the other countries have a high suicide rate because of the pressure they received. I think that I even reached a time when Philippines also had a high suicide rate and most of them were students and the reason of why they commit suicide is because of the pressure of school for them. Like what happened to Joy Lobo. Rancho also said that this is college and not a pressure cooker so what he implied in this statement is that this is school a place for learning, enjoying and innovating some ideas, and this is not a place to only gain pressure and not learning something new. He also cite an example in which the lion learns to sit on a chair in fear of a whip and we call the lion only well trained and not well educated.

After that, Virus wrote a letter to Farhan and Raju’s parents and told them that Rancho is a bad influence to the two of them. So first, they went to Farhan’s house and was immediately reprimanded by the father of Farhan because he does not want Farhan’s studies to be hindered by some friends of his. But when they went to Farhan’s house Rancho immediately noticed the pictures that are posted in Farhan’s room which are the animals of nature and he noticed that those are good but the father of Farhan said that it was an old hobby of his but the truth is that Farhan really wants to be a nature photographer but his parents insisted that he must be an engineer for his sake but still the parents chose him to be an engineer because they thought that this would make him earn good money and sustain his future needs. After that, they went to Raju Rastogi’s house where they went to a year 1950’s house and they met the father of Raju which is paralyzed and also a former postmaster, a sick mother and a sister who cannot marry because of the dowry needed for the marriage. Raju’s mother always complains about their life where all the items in the market are really expensive like the cauliflower and many more especially the cottage cheese which is really expensive for them. After that since they cannot eat there because of how disgusting they prepare their food, they went to a random occasion where Rancho first met Pia, which is the daughter of Virus, their director, and the event was the wedding of one of Virus’ daughter which is also the older sister of Pia. When they went there, Rancho showed how foolish or greedy Pia’s fiancé is. He showed it to her by pouring the sauce in the shoes of the fiancé and he predicted that the fiancé will shout the price of the shoes that were poured by the sauce and that makes him a fool. After that, they were caught by the director and then reprimanded again the next day so what Virus did was that he assigned Raju and Farhan to the room where Chatur is and only Raju followed what Virus said so after that. He kind of blame himself for what happened so Farhan and Rancho devised a plan to tell Raju that what he currently doing is not good so they sabotaged the upcoming speech of Chatur to tell the message to Raju that always studying and not understanding is really a bad idea when you grow up because that is the worst part of life. And since Chatur does not understand Hindi because he is from Uganda, and he had his speech checked by the librarian and after paraphrasing all of that, Rancho and Farhan kind of messed up his speech so that they can send a message to Farhan that studying without understanding is bad for your mind. After that, the director was so mad that he banged Chatur’s head on the microphone and Chatur got mad at Rancho and had a case where they would meet again after 10 years to see who is more successful between the two of them. For me, sending a message to a friend about the danger is good but what they did was kind of bad because it mocks the person who is uninvolved in the fights that they have. After that scene, he met with Pia once again who was with her fiancé buying a new watch. Pia saw him when he was buying parts for the machine that Virus is requiring him to make. So, when they met he asked if she was still with the foolish fiancé whom always mentions the price of a product so what Rancho said is that he values the money more than her and Pia got mad so Rancho said he will prove to her that is true so what he did was hide the watch and told her fiancé that the watch was lost. So what happened was the prediction of Rancho which he will always find the thing more than the person. After that, someone called Rancho in which they said that the condition of Raju’s father who was sick is more painful than it was so he took Pia’s scooter and brought her to the house of Raju. After that, when they went to his house, they said that he needs to be brought to a hospital but the ambulance will take 2 hours to get to their house so what they did was bring him to the hospital through the scooter and it was kind of funny but it was an emergency this was in an urgent case. After that, Raju went to the hospital and got mad at Rancho because he brought his father through the scooter and not through an ambulance but when the doctor spoke that he might had not survived if they waited for the ambulance and he said it was good that they brought him to the hospital through the scooter rather than waiting for an ambulance because if not, Raju’s father could have already died so Raju was so thankful for it. For me, Rancho is a great friend because he treats his friends not only friends but a part of his own family like his real family also the family of his friends, he treated them as a family of his that is why I could say that Ranchodas Shamaldas Chanchad is a great friend but towards the movie his real name is Phunsukh Wangdu which is the person that Chatur is finding throughout the series.

Next is Raju Rastogi who was my favorite character among three because although he faced too many challenges in the movie, he still accepted it and he accomplished his dream in where he will become an engineer and will graduate from Imperial College of Engineering. Assuming I watched the 3 idiots, Raju Rastogi first appeared in the movie when he was called by Farhan that Chatur found Ranchodas Shamaldas Chanchad which is being searched by them for how many years after they graduated. It is because Rancho suddenly disappeared after graduation. Raju grew in a low income family. His father is a former postmaster but now he suffers from stroke because he is paralyzed. His mother is a housewife and a sick one while his sister cannot marry because of the dowry needed by the man that she wants to marry and it is a car. Rancho and Farhan described their house as a 1950 theme and they see it as a white and black movie like the one in which they did in the movie. How he met Rancho was the same in the case of Farhan in which were in kind of like an initiation in a fraternity held by the higher years in their university. What they did was they let them remove their pants and do some weird tricks or acts like the James Bond which Chatur did and more and suddenly, Rancho came in with his water jug. At first, he did not quite like Rancho because it was lie he was different from the society he lives on. So in a situation, Raju is the person in which he believed that staying with Chatur was better for him at studying than Rancho because for him Rancho is a bad influence in his studies. Raju also believes in gods and always offer and praise them because he thinks that the gods will give him the knowledge and enlightenment to pass his exams and pass his course as an engineer in Imperial College of Engineering.

So he did this everyday but sadly, he always ends up being always at the last, same with Farhan. One of the things that I can reflect towards his story is that he is willing to finish study and get a decent job so he can help his family throughout their lives he is like the breadwinner in his family. I, on the other hand, am not a breadwinner of the family but I want to finish my college so that I can help my family in financial needs and also I can help myself. I would want to repay all the debts I have to my own family who took care of me until I grow old, that is why I am still going to school and doing my best to pass all the subjects that I need to pass. After that situation, there was a situation in which he was being sent a message by Rancho and Farhan by changing the speech of Chatur teaching him that mindless cramming will result on what just happened to him. Chatur embarrassed Virus and the Minister of Education. Still, Raju did not listen to Rancho and Farhan and still insisted to stay with Chatur even though he was forced to stay with someone who studies while farting and studies noisily. Chatur also do dirty tactics in which he sends pornographic magazines in to other students’ rooms so he could outdo them and they will not study but will just read the pornographic magazines Chatur gave to them. After that, when he knew that his father was in the hospital, he rushed and reprimanded Rancho because they sent his father through the scooter that they have and they did not waited for an ambulance. But after the doctor said that a little bit of delay and it would not end well, he meant that if they waited for the ambulance and did not went to hospital with a scooter then the father of Raju would surely die. After he learned that, he apologized to Rancho because what he thought was wrong and what Rancho did was right. He went crying and also Rancho cried and hugged him. For me, Rancho was a great friend for that situation. After that, they went late for exams so what Rancho, Farhan and Raju did is that after they went to submit their test papers to the teacher, they asked him if he knew their names and their ID number, but the teacher said he did not so what they did was they messed up the table and ran immediately. After that scene, they went to look if there exams scores did well. When they looked, they placed or ranked at the last place. Then, they went looking for Rancho’s score but did not found it in the part where they are so they became sad. Farhan sat down but Raju still went to look for Rancho’s name but his name was place at the first place and they said that “Your friend fails, you feel bad. Your friend tops, you feel worse.” That was kind of a relating one because I had a friend before at elementary where he always tops at the top 10 of the class and I always placed at the middle rank so yea I feel kind of bad for them and another situation is that when in high school I had a friend also that always placed or rank at the bottom and always fails and I really feel bad for what happened but not in the case where in elementary where my friend always tops the class. I kind of feel bad but yeah we must learn our mistakes and we must not repeat them for our sake of it.

When they were in the class pictorial, Raju and Farhan are positioned at the edge of the photo in which Rancho mad a proposal that if they both get a job after they graduate from the school then the director will shave his beard for them. After that scene, in the future in which they already found Ranchodas Shamaldas Chanchad’s house, he and Farhan found that Rancho’s real name is not Rancho so they investigated and found that they just used the real Rancho to just get a degree in Engineering in Imperial College of Engineering. Then after that, in the past, he and Farhan were being shamed by Virus because all throughout their school, they were always at the last place or rank during exams, and for the school it is quite shameful because the school, Imperial College of Engineering, is a competitive type of school. It means that the student must always compete to the top because it will be really bad if they fell down and become last in their perspective. I also kind of experience in an environment where the firsts always matters. I mean the top student in the class matters and the last placers do not. It was when I was still in high school where firsts always mattered wherever you are. It does not matter if you are second, third or more as long as you are he first, then all of it will be okay.

After that scene, the three of them, Raju, Farhan and Rancho drank alcoholic beverages with them. When they are drunk enough, Rancho first said that Farhan must not continue to be an engineer but he must be a wildlife photographer just like what he wanted to be if not for his parents. And also, Rancho said that he must not believe in such superstitious or religious aspects so that he can land a job and so he will not just depend on it but he will also have a confidence in himself almost he said that Raju is afraid of the future future and he does not risk anything that is why he thinks that he must not depend on his beliefs and his religion because in the end religion will never ever save you. Then, Raju said that he must first confess his love for Pia before they would do that. So the condition is, Rancho must confess first to Pia and what Farhan will do is that he will tell parents that he really wants to be a wildlife photographer rather than being an engineer and for Raju, to remove his rings when doing his job interview in the campus. So what happened is that, the three of them, Raju, Rancho and Farhan, went to Pia’s house also known as Virus’ house and they went their drunk. What Farhan did is that he removed some of the letters in Virus nameplate in their gate while Raju and Rancho went up to what they think is Pia’s room and while Rancho confessed to Pia that he loves her, he did not realize that the one he is talking to is her sister. While the sister revealed herself, Raju went down with Farhan in the ground floor, and what they did was that both of them peed and shouted some inaudible words that even I do not know. And because of that, Virus woke up and when they attempted to go out, he only recognized one face which belonged to Raju and after they that, they went to a classroom and slept their until the next morning. The next morning, they were up but Raju was being called by Virus because Virus went to the classroom and wants to find Raju because of what he did. Then, he said that he wants Raju Rastogi by his office later. So when Raju went Virus’ office he asked if what it is. Virus replied that if he does know how to use a laptop and type in a word processing software, then he said yes. So Raju typed what will the director said and he said that “Dear Sir, it is my painful duty to inform you that your son, Raju Rastogi is rusticated form Imperial College of Engineering.” It was kind of harsh and Raju was already crying for it so, what the director next said is kind of hard for me and he said that replace your name with Ranchodas Shamaladas Chanchad, and it will all be alright. After that, he was given 7 and a half minutes to decide which name will be written in the letter, either Raju Rastogi, his name, or his best friend’s name, Ranchodas Shamaldas Chanchad. For me, if I were in his position it would also be hard for me to decide whether to put my name or my best friend’s name. But in this movie, what Raju Rastogi did was way worse than the conditions given. He suddenly jumped from the Director’s office to the ground. It was kind of unexpected for him to do it because I thought he was okay but I only thought that it was. After that, he was sent to the hospital and suffered a sickness that causes the body to paralyze in shock but making his mind alert so it was never an option too to give up Raju’s life, so what they did was to never cry in front of Raju so it will not let his condition go to worse. Rancho and Farhan did almost anything to say to just make him happy by telling happy things like, his rustication is suspended, and his mother received a new dress named something and more. But still nothing happened, so after that Rancho said that Farhan will marry his sister jokingly at least to help Raju feel better and he repeated it and repeat until he became better and suddenly, it really made him get well. So after that, they did what they promise in where Farhan must talk to his parents about the future of becoming a photographer and not an engineer, it went well and it was a dramatic one while Raju succeeded in getting a job without depending on others.