THREE IDIOTS

“ALL IZ WELL!” I uttered to myself after watching the movie entitled “The 3 Idiots”. Long before not watching the movie, I thought that it was just a sappy, grumpy, full of sing and dance Indian movie based on its title, but I was wrong with my perception. Thinking of Indian movies, I often associate it with kind of soap operas, entailing lots of dancing and singing because as I noticed, Indian movies often bring audiences with stories relating to love, religion, action and in reality. Yes, I do watch Indian films even if I find it hard to understand it. Anyways, subtitle saves me all the time. A recapped or a snippet of the movie: The plot started when Fahran, a wildlife photographer, while on board, received a phone call from one of his old friends at university about the information of his best friend, Rancho, who has not been in touch with them since they graduated from university. On their trace to Rancho, all their thoughts flashed back to their times, when Rancho, Raju and Farhan were together at Imperial College of Engineering, one of the most prestigious schools of India. Each one with different family background, different characteristics contibutes to the colourful picture of Indian college. (cr: moviesummary.com) Lessons with regards to the characteristics of each actors in the movie : Fahran - His dream was to be a wildlife photographer, unfortunately, since he was born, his fate has been determined by his parents to be an engineer, which is deemed to bring pride to his family. Farhan had no choice but abandon his passion for photography, choosing engineering according to his parents’ desire. Finally, with the help of Rancho, Farhan realized where his passion lay, daring to chase his dream as a wildlife photographer. Though a job as wildlife photographer could not bring him as much money as a career in engineering, Fahran has chances to live out his dream, capturing the beautiful moments life brought by. The lesson that I have learned from his story was to “Follow your heart and passion.” If you love what you’re doing, so be it. Do. Do it. Do it right. Turning passion into profession, this maybe the best way to label my lesson learned for Fahran’s character. Raju – He was born to deprivated family. His father was paralysed, leading to huge consumption of money for medications. His sister cannot get married because they are too poor to offer a dowry to the man’s family. Raju, therefore, took the responsibilities of helping his family getting out of poverty. This pressure, as described as lots of rings worn on his fingers, caused him to live in fear. He was always afraid of future, feeling himself under pressure for striving for excellence in every exam at college. “Fear no more and never let yourself to be a slave of it.” This prevents someone from living at its best in the present. Anticipating of failure can make someone helpless and afraid to go out of shell. Life is too beautiful to be feared of. Rancho - Every time he appeared, he often overwhelmed other people as well as the audiences with mind-blowing stories. As described in the song at the beginning of the film, he was like a strange wind, blowing the stagnant atmosphere of college. He first appeared in the film when every freshman was bullied by the seniors with such a weird “ritual”. Just by a simple application of basic Physics, he had taught the senior a valuable lesson. He asked questions at right places at right times, simplifying complicated concepts mentioned in the text books, coming up with bright ideas, which are not dared to be thought by other students. “Strive for excellence. Success will follow you.” It’s so holistic. It only proves how passion can make someone excel from what he’s doing. Living out with passion and determination can make a person successful. Rancho, one of the main characters in the movie, is undeniably a great person, a great friend, a great leader and a great student. Though he did nasty things, he still done it for a good purpose. He never thought of his own sake. He was never selfish. He possesses a lot of qualities of an effective leader. Because of his principles in life, he was able to set the lives of the people around him. The part of the movie that really amazed me is the moment wherein they have to perform a vacuum delivery. Rancho really did well in making the students coordinate and make the delivery successful. That was really stunning This just crossed my mind, if all people will be like Rancho, I guess the whole world will be better but I know it will be hard because ‘Chatur’ and ‘Virus’ exist in real world. They represent the challenges all people are facing every day. They also represent those people who will do everything just to let you down. Competition is very usual in every field of life but everyone can be Rancho. We should just have a concrete vision enclosed with competency and a strong desire of reaching every goal you have set. “Make your passion your profession” is one the quote from the movie that really marked on my mind. You can’t accomplish anything if you can’t put your heart on your work. You should conquer fear to be able to achieve your dreams. This movie helped a lot in making me understand the qualities and characteristic of a good leader. This also inspires me to be a better student. Both Farhan, Raju, and Rancho brought me with their own meaningful lessons. The movie makes me think much about my study. I found myself existing in almost every character of the film. I found myself in Rancho, in his passion for study. I found myself in Raju, in his fear for future. I found myself in Fahran, in his being obedient to his parents. With regards to the whole lesson learned in the movie, I would like to hit the right nail this time. Giving an effortful attemp to attain success against excellency, is what parents and school system do. It demands to have high grades, direct the students to focus on the things that let them to get high grades rather than learn. Creative ideas become risky because 1 point difference gets a different. Unfortunately this behavior becomes so ingrained in students that when they face real life they are afraid to take risks, and miss opportunities to do their personal best. Wondering later why an average guy in school goes on to become more successful and overtapped them someday. The root cause of the problem nowadays with the students, the mundane and the whole human being are the system and the behavior of most people. It follows the norms of the world. I, myself, also engage with that kind of mentality. It’s time for me now to go out my shell and live life to the extent. Explore the world, push myself to the limit. Do the things that makes me perfectly happy even if there’s no assurance of being successful. “Oh wells are far better that what ifs.” I also realized about the things I love, the things I am best at and the things that irritate me the most. It was one of the activities we did for us to determine things regarding our likes and dislikes for use to lead into a better idea of what business we must propose. This could help us on creating a good idea because as what I have mentioned above being able to seek what you love can help you go on and break through any barrier that would possibly come along the way to your success. Lastly, as an inspiration from what I have learned. I can say that I must stay hungry. I must stay foolish. Do my best and God will do the rest. “All is Well” were always mentioned on the film. It implies not to lose hope in every situation you will encounter and have a courage to survive in any circumstances that you may encounter as you go along to your journey and to succeed. Be optimistic and always have faith in yourself and to God. Just live every moment to the fullest as if today is your last day. There are many things to learn from this film, I found love for friends. You can do anything for your friends but nowadays this type of friendship is lacking the most. And about education nowadays every people are in a rat race. Every parents have dream about the profession of the ward, they have to be doctors or engineers whether they like it or but it is not possible for every ward to be doctors or engineers. They may have liking for other things but some parents does not understand this at all. Those lessons makes me whole as a student and inspired me to pursue my studies. Life is just a matter of choice just think twice and be wise. I have witnessed from the movie that in any circumstances, true friends are always there to support and cheer us up. They make somehow our life light. I have watched it several times and it always inspires me to run the race of life with joy, love and passion. I will always watched this movie even if I'm old and share it to others what I have learned for. I am not good in understanding especially in this kind of movie and it takes two times of watching this film. But surely it would stick unto my mind what I have learned for because it's extremely awesome especially on the characters and quotable lines they spoke on the said movie. We should learn to love our self and our passion to become successful in life.