If they're idiots, what are we?I watched this yesterday. A hidustan comedy film recommended by Filzah and Amin. Before this I had never heard of this movie before. At first I didn't really feel positive about this one. Cause it's 2 hour 44 minutes long. It has an absolutely inspiring movie title. And no offence but I'm more interested in watching a movie than a musical in a language that I'll probably never understand.
Guess what. I'm wrong. Dead wrong. This movie is totally brilliant. It's hillarious. It's sad. It's touching. It's pure awesome. The thing about close-to-three-hours-long movies is that people tend to fall asleep. I remembered how I nearly dozed off watching Avatar. And I heard King Kong's pretty much the same. But this. This movie pulled it off marvelously. The plot is just genius. Every second was equally exciting than the one before and gets you looking foward to the next. It didn't feel slow and draggy. Like Russell Peter said how the Indians would say it, this is mind blasting. MIND BLASTING.
The whole thing is more or less a flashback. Three friends met up in an engineering college. Farhan. Raju. and Rancho. Rancho was this badass genius student who questioned everything about everything in the school. He challenged the education system, the lecturers' teaching method, the students' attitude etc. Somewhat rude and disrespectful but undeniably makes a good and correct point. He's very passionate about machines and engineering. Excelled at it of course.
Farhan and Raju are the other two idiots. Very close and loyal friends. Not as smart as Rancho. Things happen and they get into trouble. Too many. Pissed off the dean multiple times. Raju couldn't take the pressure and tried to kill himself but failed. Farhan and Raju stuck with him. And there was Chatur, the only actual idiot in the movie. Studymaniac who's a exam machine. Knows nothing but to score by all means. Like distributing risqué magazine to other students during the exam season. No you don't get to see porn. And there's a girl. P... something whom Rancho liked. Loved. Who's also the dean's daughter. They helped delivering a baby. And the baby went from dead to life.
Then they graduated. Raju got a job. Farhan became a photographer. The dean's moustache got shaved during his 7.5 minutes nap. After many years they tried to locate Rancho who wasn't Rancho but Phunsukh Wangdu or something. And that girls' wedding got hijacked so they could bring her and Rancho, uhh Wangdu back together. Basically, it's a perfect ending. No one in the movie died.
The jokes in the movie are clever. Wasn't cliche. Very funny and humourous. Acting wise I wouldn't say it's too good but it was not bad at all. The scene that got my laughing the hardest was the part where Rancho faked a police officer and pranked Chatur on phone. I almost teared when Raju said sorry to Rancho for taking his dying father to the hospital on a scooter.
It's a very unique film. Not going to say it's the funniest or the best. But it definitely kept me interested throughout the 2 hours 44 minutes. I didn't fall asleep. I would have to say the plot is the most brilliant part. Kudos to the writer.
The problem I had with this film is that the ending is too perfect. Way too flawless. They were all well and alive. Rancho and the girl got back together. It ended in laughter and the image of the blue blue sky. That was rather predictable. I think it would've more impact if in the end Rancho died or something. But hey, it's nice to see happy endings once in a while.
And of course the dance scene. It wasn't like a musical where they dance to part of the song. No. In this film it was the whole song. From start to end. A good three four minutes. That I think was a bit unecessary. Though I would say the director is incredibly understanding if it was meant to be a toilet break. I mean if they had to make a soundtrack music video, they would just have cut out that part of the movie. Luckily there were only two or three.
Other than that, I really think this is a wonderful film. Worth it. A lot fun to watch. Try it. Definitely.
8/10
Guess what. I'm wrong. Dead wrong. This movie is totally brilliant. It's hillarious. It's sad. It's touching. It's pure awesome. The thing about close-to-three-hours-long movies is that people tend to fall asleep. I remembered how I nearly dozed off watching Avatar. And I heard King Kong's pretty much the same. But this. This movie pulled it off marvelously. The plot is just genius. Every second was equally exciting than the one before and gets you looking foward to the next. It didn't feel slow and draggy. Like Russell Peter said how the Indians would say it, this is mind blasting. MIND BLASTING.
The whole thing is more or less a flashback. Three friends met up in an engineering college. Farhan. Raju. and Rancho. Rancho was this badass genius student who questioned everything about everything in the school. He challenged the education system, the lecturers' teaching method, the students' attitude etc. Somewhat rude and disrespectful but undeniably makes a good and correct point. He's very passionate about machines and engineering. Excelled at it of course.
Farhan and Raju are the other two idiots. Very close and loyal friends. Not as smart as Rancho. Things happen and they get into trouble. Too many. Pissed off the dean multiple times. Raju couldn't take the pressure and tried to kill himself but failed. Farhan and Raju stuck with him. And there was Chatur, the only actual idiot in the movie. Studymaniac who's a exam machine. Knows nothing but to score by all means. Like distributing risqué magazine to other students during the exam season. No you don't get to see porn. And there's a girl. P... something whom Rancho liked. Loved. Who's also the dean's daughter. They helped delivering a baby. And the baby went from dead to life.
Then they graduated. Raju got a job. Farhan became a photographer. The dean's moustache got shaved during his 7.5 minutes nap. After many years they tried to locate Rancho who wasn't Rancho but Phunsukh Wangdu or something. And that girls' wedding got hijacked so they could bring her and Rancho, uhh Wangdu back together. Basically, it's a perfect ending. No one in the movie died.
The jokes in the movie are clever. Wasn't cliche. Very funny and humourous. Acting wise I wouldn't say it's too good but it was not bad at all. The scene that got my laughing the hardest was the part where Rancho faked a police officer and pranked Chatur on phone. I almost teared when Raju said sorry to Rancho for taking his dying father to the hospital on a scooter.
It's a very unique film. Not going to say it's the funniest or the best. But it definitely kept me interested throughout the 2 hours 44 minutes. I didn't fall asleep. I would have to say the plot is the most brilliant part. Kudos to the writer.
The problem I had with this film is that the ending is too perfect. Way too flawless. They were all well and alive. Rancho and the girl got back together. It ended in laughter and the image of the blue blue sky. That was rather predictable. I think it would've more impact if in the end Rancho died or something. But hey, it's nice to see happy endings once in a while.
And of course the dance scene. It wasn't like a musical where they dance to part of the song. No. In this film it was the whole song. From start to end. A good three four minutes. That I think was a bit unecessary. Though I would say the director is incredibly understanding if it was meant to be a toilet break. I mean if they had to make a soundtrack music video, they would just have cut out that part of the movie. Luckily there were only two or three.
Other than that, I really think this is a wonderful film. Worth it. A lot fun to watch. Try it. Definitely.
8/10
* My second hisdustan film, after Slumdog Millionaire *
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