Director: Rajkumar Hirani
A rib-tickling film on three students in an engineering college – that about sums it up.
The movie is a must-watch, the situations are so funny and the dialogues are smartly written. It’s a very enjoyable movie experience. Aamir, Madhavan and Sharman manage to look like college students and I was very impressed by that; I was spooked that I would have to watch old botox-filled faces acting as college students; a-la in the Telugu movies! :P
A majority of the scenes in the movie make you ROFL. There are some senti-scenes which I did not like - I guess Bollywood cannot do without a good dose of sentiment, and these scenes are real tear-jerkers for sensitive people.
The movie is very much based on Chetan Bhagat’s first novel ‘Five-point Someone’.
The movie is a must-watch, the situations are so funny and the dialogues are smartly written. It’s a very enjoyable movie experience. Aamir, Madhavan and Sharman manage to look like college students and I was very impressed by that; I was spooked that I would have to watch old botox-filled faces acting as college students; a-la in the Telugu movies! :P
A majority of the scenes in the movie make you ROFL. There are some senti-scenes which I did not like - I guess Bollywood cannot do without a good dose of sentiment, and these scenes are real tear-jerkers for sensitive people.
The movie is very much based on Chetan Bhagat’s first novel ‘Five-point Someone’.
The Chetan Bhagat credit issue is turning out to be very ugly and I did not expect something like this from the makers of such a huge film. As a person who read the book, I can vouch that the movie is not just ‘inspired’, but is more than 50% from book. Throwing in a few more characters and some scenes (some were totally unnecessary, esp. the delivery scene) does not make the movie just an ‘inspiration’ of the book. Of course, normally, when film makers say they are ‘inspired’ by a movie of another language, it simple means it’s a remake! I guess this trend is ‘inspiring’ the making of movies based on novels too!
All in all, the movie is ok, but the fun of the thought of the movie is lost due to the credit issue. Crediting the author at the end is in my view in really bad taste, coz in the theatre in which I saw the movie, the credits at the end weren’t even shown.
If this is the fate of a renowned author, imagine the plight of the unknown writers!
As a parting note – It is said that if you think too much about something, you become that. So I guess that’s what happened to the people associated with the movie!
Verdict: A must-watch for the comedy.
My Rating: 2.5/5, (I would’ve given a 3.5/5, but -1 bcoz of the issue :P)
