The bollywood movie entitled the “3 idiots”, starred and produced by Aamir Khan does not only showcase spices and sugars on movie that usual viewers loved to see, but it portray a very clear philosophy and factual different faces of reality all viewers can relate. The movie “3 idiots” is an evidence of reality that is comprises of different bitterness and betterment of life.
As I watched it for the first time, I found many faces of distractible truth: pressure-cooker-like school, trust, success, education and many more. The thing that struck me the most is that when Ranchhodass Shyamaldas Chanchad played by Aamir Khan himself says:
“Now rewind your life by one minute. When I ask this question, were you excited? Or curious? Thrilled that you’ll learn something new? No. you all go into a frantic race. What’s use of this method? Even if you came first, will it increase your knowledge? No. just the pressure. This is a college, not a pressure cooker. Even a circus lion learns to sit on a chair in fear of the whip. But you called such a lion ‘Well-trained’ not ‘well- educated’. Sir, I wasn’t teaching you Engineering, you’re an expert at that. I’m teaching you how to teach.”
This conveys a very clear meaning and ideals that I can relate to reality. Schools tend to embrace the principle of pressuring students and usually all students here in the Philippines underwent such pressures with the school of university. They are not educating students but just training them. We cannot call ourselves well-educated if the system remains this way. It just that I had reflected, that education systems are made for the betterment and knowledge a student can learn.
Another thing that had me pondering is another phrase from Ranchhodas Chanchad. It stated that : “You’re on the wrong track again. Do not chase success. Become an engineer and success will follow you.”
This statement strikes like a bullet train to the common scenario and common mindsets of all students who pursues college. The usual mindsets of the students are like Chatur Ramalingan who thinks that just memorization of the information and study hard just to pass or for the purpose of having a job. But in sense, Rancho had a point. We can seldom see people who pursue engineering courses or technology based courses or medical courses that go to college because they love math or they love English or enjoy science and etc. almost all the population of college students go to college in purpose of having a degree so that they can find a work that can uplift the burden of poverty.
It is a shame that I, myself, thinks like Chatur who just to college, pass all the subjects and have a degree so that I can land on a high rate job. I realized that, instead of getting excited to learn new things and enhance my knowledge, I surrender to pressure the school pressed upon. I realized to myself that in order to achieve a happy and fulfilling life, it only needs love and passion. Love for your dreams, passion for what you want to do, love for knowledge as a part of life. Though, I know that life today needs to be practical but when I heard the words of Rancho, I become aware that the secret of life is love. I cannot say that I am satisfyingly loving the course I am taking now but, I just found within my reach that I can start to love everything that happens in my life.
According to Ranchhodas Shyamaldas Chanchad, follow what your heart desires. Yes, it is just a simple sentence but a sentence people seldomly followed. This mantra is powerful, I realized if you follow what is in your heart, you can make something possible, you’ll learn to love and be passionate with what you have and what you haven’t. it just simply mean enjoyment, satisfaction to everything you’ll do. Me? I love multimedia arts but I never had a chance to pursue some degree involving the topic. I like visual effects and wanted to create things that are magical in the big screen like harry potter had in movie. Yet, It remains in my fantasy world because it never had the chance to explore because of pressure from the family and limitations they set that I cannot cross.
The movie “3 idiots” reminds me many aspect of life that I had overlook from the very first time such as love for wisdom, satisfaction, enjoyment amidst of trouble, unfairness, love, survival, dreams, attitude, family, friends, fear and so much more.
Another part of the movie that hits the reality out of me is when Raju and Farhan browse the result posted on the bulletin board. They found their names on the most bottom list while Rancho’s name are on the top most. Then they say: “We learn a lesson in human behavior. if your friend fails, you feel bad. But if your friend tops the class, you feel worst.”
Yes, sometimes when it happens it feels like you are caught in the middle of nowhere, whether you could show how you feel or be happy to that person instead.
One of my favorite parts of the movie is when Rancho and Pia rides on a scooter to Raju’s house to help Raju’s paralyzed father. Then, Pia says the three of them must go home because they will be having exam tomorrow. Then Rancho says: “We can take many exams but we only have one dad.”
There, I realized that I was very fortunate to still have my dad supporting us. It just that this movie made me ponder that what would happened to us if my dad passed away, how could I thank him for everything he did to us. It was just a shame that I never had appreciated my dad when I was still elementary. Now, I learned that the way I valued my father should be kept firing even he’s not by my side.
Yes, this Indian movie opens up many eyes towards different facades of life that sometime we disregarded or just overlooked. Considering the circumstances, love and passion is one way to survive life.
“Everything is fair in Love and War” – Pia Sahastrabuddhe
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