First of all, a very Happy New Year 2010 to all of you… Let’s welcome this New Year with an open heart divorcing all our pessimistic thoughts for always & marrying optimism forever. M sure most of you must be having your New Year resolutions in place… It’s my personal experience that rules & New Year resolutions are akin as both are meant to be broken. But let’s be different this time, only if you don’t believe in polygamy/polyandry & manage to be loyal to your new better half (optimism) forever. Cheers!!!
Chase excellence & success is bound to chase you. Well, m sorry! But the vice versa is not true. The message is clear: Always choose excellence over success. (See…again you have a choice:)… just in case you’ve read my previous piece)
The time starved folks need not go any further coz you’ve got the best ROI on time. In a nutshell that’s what 3i (watched it on 31st; night show) is all about so you can attend to your prior engagements without moving any further. Thank you…
Well, this suggests you are not hard pressed on time (vella like me); so let’s foray together into the nitty-gritty of 3i. The film is about 3 friends & their camaraderie; Aamir as Ranchhoddas Shamaldas Chanchad or Ranco, Madhavan as Farhan Quereshi & Sharman Joshi as Raju Rastogi. Perfect blend of emotion, love, friendship & comedy (esp. the chamatkaar/balatkaar scene) with a thoughtful message. Kareena's role is short but clean. Boman's role of an eccentric professor is also good. Leaving Ghajini & TZP back, 3i has set a new record for Paid preview shows by grossing Rs. 225 crore nett. Previous record holder Ghajini did a business of Rs. 175 crore nett. All records at multiplexes have been smashed as 3i records collections which are just unbelievable. Many multiplexes have recorded double the collections of Ghajini for the 1st Friday.
Reasons are:
First, the excellent storyline which clearly highlights the ‘Mad Rat Race’ in our country for success. Success, toady has become more important than values & money has become synonymous to success. 3i says align your profession with your passion & excellence will blossom. But whenever our passion doesn’t seem high paying (in most cases it does not), we slaughter the passion in our hearts & move over to our sickly sweet profession. We coax our hearts into believing that the profession we are in is our passion suppressing our inner voice till the time...one day it dies turning us from humans to machines. Machines! Which are in the vicious circle of being manufactured, working day & night, then at last tearing & wearing to death. 3i also castigates the Indian education system for the grading system. Real education is what you retain after you’ve forgotten all you learnt in class. Even when the child is in the womb his/her destiny is sealed...to be an engineer or a doctor successively. India has the highest rate of suicides due to the unsurmountable pressure of getting mindless grades to establish your credibility in the society. These are burning issues of our society & the beautiful depiction of the same was an icing on the cake. Thus, it clicked well & people could connect to it easily.
Second the ‘Aamir Khan factor’. I adore him for the stickler he is. A versatile actor, who doesn’t enact but lives every character with the same panache & humility, be it the wild animal of Ghajini or a 44 year old Aamir playing a 22 year old college student of 3i. With a 'Munnabhai' caliber director Raj Kumar Hirani... here the tag line was "All is Well" like the 'Jadu ki Jhappi' in Munnabhai.
Third, the perfect holiday season…with Christmas & New Year Eve around people had all the time & the perfect mood for an exhilarating movie like 3i.
Last but not the least the hype created over 3i, be it about Aamir spending days in IIM Bangalore or Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone (FPS). As Raju Hirani says, this film is about five per cent of Chetan Bhagat's bestseller Five Point Someone.Since I’ve read FPS, I feel over 70% of 3i is an adaptation of FPS. So the furore over Chetan not getting the deserved credit is not for nothing. I wish Chetan all the best in his war which in my opinion is not just about getting the deserved credit. It’s also about the other less known book authors whose stories are adapted into movies without any financial or social credit to them; it’s about justice, it’s about Intellectual Property Rights…& more than anything else it’s about truth!
Keep Smiling as....Alllll is Welllll...... Naya saal aap sab ke liye mangalmaye ho!
Happy New Year..2010.
Nish.
ROI.... huh??? gud.... nw u r talkin like a true future management professional...
ReplyDeletei liked ur quote: "Real education is what you retain after you have forgotten all you learnt in class". And just to add to dat, sumone has truly said " The real lessons in life r learnt outside the classrooms".
I also liked ur main heading.... "3i".
Now turning towards the negative side of the criticism....i think ur post sounds more like an essay rather than a personal view on a topic... bcoz we already know all d facts dat u hv listed above(under d "Reasons" headline)... it doesn't make d blog any better ( or interesting).... it only adds to the volume...
n if u dont like my comment... dont take it 2 heart... just take it wid a pinch of salt...
Hey! thanks for the comment (esp. the critical one)... Even I was feeling that something was out of place but could not exactly figure out what?? I guess u've pointed out that. Lack of personal touch & more of facts. I'll take that into consideration next time I write a review.
ReplyDeletePS: Not every1 knows the facts, so for them the facts may spice up the reading experience. The post has been written from their perspective too. But Ya! there's always a scope for improvement...thanks :)
Well written! The blog proves it's immortality with the penultimate line 'it's about truth'. However, you might have to re-conceptualise on the fourth line under 'Reasons are:', when you make the brackets proud by saying 'in most cases it does not'. Remember to stay consistent with the (positive) connotation of the blog.
ReplyDeleteI would like you to define the word 'high paying'. It's a perspective. A passion is always high paying, only and only, if it is THE PASSION. If it does not Pay, then the essence of SEEMING PASSION is diluted with the stigma of holding the circumstances culpable, which self testifies itself as an APATHY rather than a PASSION.
I would appreciate the concept of mentioning the 'facts' which in this blog were of paramount importance.So, knowing the person who you really are: you would always have a scope for straightening the unique oblique tones to compliment the immortality of the blog in the minds of uninitiated.
Rest - ALL IS WELL :)
@Rajat:
ReplyDeleteM totally with you when you speak about maintaining consistency in the +ve connotation of the blog post. I believe in its entirety that 'The Passion' is always high paying(I just said it doesn't seem to be until we get down to the core of it). My actual intent was to highlight the fact that many potential 'The Passions' die in the preliminary phase of being 'A Passion'.
Just to quote; in 3i Madhavan has 'A Passion' of photography, which appears to be low paying. Only later, on Rancho's enlightenment Madhavan realizes & transforms his 'A Passion' into 'The passion'.. Converting 'A Passion' into 'The Passion' requires the temerity of a lion. It's like leaving the shores & burning the ships! Hence making victory inevitable. Even if 'The Passion' is not high paying financially, it'll always be high paying morally & emotionally which is much more important. Though, you may always argue that 'A Passion' is not actually passion in the 1st place but just an infatuation...
Nyways, thanks for the sublime inputs. Rest... Aalll eeiiss Wellll..... :)
Brother, that's nice of you for making ME clear HERE, with your Intent.
ReplyDeleteAgain, Re-tracking - the third line of your comment says "I just said it doesn't seem to be until we get down to the the core of it" - I humbly disagree. You (Until now) never said that (of course in the Blog), rather, you Meant that (Again - The Word Precision :)), as the Blog doesn't manifests those lines. It is imperative for you to mention this in the Master write-up - The Respected Blog, which is perhaps overseeing your intent in the Comments Section, and drooling to imbibe it.
I bestow my heartiest gratitude again, to define 'High Paying', however, yet again, the Blog deserves it 'Much More than the More' in the Comments :)
PS: I understand, that the intelligentsia might be able to comprehend your kind Intent, despite, devoid of an apparent phrase (which I as a layman, seek to comprehend from the Seen Ingredients in the Blog), nonetheless, the Mass would want to learn and understand to the Core; such a magnificent write-up.
Anyways, Welcome :)
Check out the viewpoint by Vir Sanghvi on the 3i controversy....
ReplyDeletehttp://www.virsanghvi.com/vir-world-ArticleDetail.aspx?ID=415