3 IDIOTS REVIEW

3 IDIOTS

IMPLAUSIBLE-INCOMPREHENSIBLE-INANE-AND IDIOTIC

Review By: Dr Usman Latif Khawaja

The fact three I 'S can define intelligence or idiocy or indifference as well is nothing when you are faced with a brain injury being cured by Aamir Khan playing a joker and then he delivers a child in a webcam directed obstetrics miracle with a car battery and a domestic vacuum cleaner which has to be seen to be believed as it is beyond idiocy, as the word should be retarded.

I adore Amir khan and Kareena Kapoor, but if you are hell-bent on making an incoherent script with inept dialogues which at times definitively become offensive, in the name of a comedy, than no talented stars can salvage the mess.

This movie tries ineptly to discuss the age old issue about the generation gap between parents, students and teachers and their aspirations and unrealistic expectorations' from each other, here it all just becomes a sordid expectoration.

There are too many various ill-sketched characters in a slapstick comedy which alternates between an inadvertent fantasy and a sentimental soap-opera.

The performances are over the top with most of the cast like Sharman Joshi sleepwalking, with frantic dialogue delivery and a frenzied behaviour, which becomes a total farce, and Mr. Boman Irani is becoming the worst comic caricature on the globe ever with his portrayals of funny middle - aged patriarch.

The word 'RAPE' has been used intensively and insensitively to induce laughter in totally inappropriate and incredible situations, and this movie descends to the level of toilet humour where shots of men defecating collectively and urine being utilized to induce laughter becomes pathetic.

I only liked one musical track and it was brilliantly choreographed with both Kareena and Aamir in top form, but the rest was instantaneously forgettable and tedious with an inconsistent script, which makes no sense.

The worst part of the movie is reducing medical emergency and family values into a mess with Aamir indulging himself as a self - martyred genius who both plays a buffoon and a tear shedding sentimental saint, most of the times he is laughing himself at the badly directed jokes, which is not amusing at all, but rather very offensive by a good director who gave the extremely original and amusing MUNNABHAI MBBS , which this does not even touch in any perspective, except for Kareena who has a tiny role, where she tries to underplay the antics but the rest of the cast brings her down as well.

Hirani needs to write a script next time with the taste and class he demonstrated previously in Munnabhai as this is a disappointing venture and best labelled as ho-hum.

Rating: One Star