If you take a crappy Indian novel like Five Point Someone and pee all over it, is it any surprise that the end result should turn out to be a piece of mutated trash called 3 Idiots.
And to those of you who mindlessly blabber that 3 Idiots has nothing to do with Five Point Someone, we say: Baby, time you dusted off the cobwebs from your brain.
Unendurable Crap
There’s little entertainment or engaging drama in 3 Idiots.
Au contraire, the movie is replete with infernal nonsense – a bunch of students delivering a baby on a table tennis table with a vacuum cleaner (no kidding, guys), the institute director Viru Sahastrabuddhe (Boman Irani) behaving like an escapee from the local asylum, contrived bhashans on the education system by Aamir Khan’s character Rancho, the Aal Izz Well baloney as the baby is delivered, the stupid twist about Rancho in Shimla ad nauseum, ad infinitum.
The movie follows the Five Point Someone book, albeit with some changes that end up making the final product so much worse than the original. Continue reading »
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