3 Idiots is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age comedy-drama film co-written (with Abhijat Joshi) and directed by Rajkumar Hirani. The film stars Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Kareena Kapoor, Boman Irani and Omi Vaidya. The film follows the friendship of three students at an Indian engineering college and is a satire about the social pressures under an Indian education system.[6][7][8] The film is narrated through parallel dramas, one in the present and the other ten years in the past.
3 IdiotsTheatrical release posterDirected byRajkumar HiraniProduced byVidhu Vinod ChopraScreenplay byAbhijat Joshi
Rajkumar Hirani
Vidhu Vinod ChopraStory byRajkumar Hirani
Abhijat JoshiBased onFive Point Someone by
Chetan BhagatStarring
Narrated byR. MadhavanMusic byScore:
Sanjay Wadnarekar
Atul Raninga
Shantanu Moitra
Songs:
Shantanu MoitraCinematographyC. K. MuraleedharanEdited byRajkumar HiraniProduction
companyVinod Chopra FilmsDistributed byReliance BIG PicturesRelease date
25 December 2009 (India)
Running time
170 minutes[1]CountryIndiaLanguageHindiBudget₹ 550 million[2][3]Box officeest. ₹ 4.60 billion[4][5]
Produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra under the banner Vinod Chopra Films, and based on Chetan Bhagat's novel Five Point Someone: What not to do at IIT! for which author was not suitably credited,[9][10][11] the film incorporated real Indian inventions created by Remya Jose,[12] Mohammad Idris,[13] Jahangir Painter[14] and Sonam Wangchuk.[15] It received widespread critical[16] and commercial success upon its release on 25 December 2009. It was also the highest-grossing film in its opening weekend in India, had the highest opening day collections for an Indian film up until that point and also held the record for the highest net collections in the first week for a Bollywood film. It also became one of the few Indian films at the time to become successful in East Asian markets such as China[17] and Japan,[18] eventually bringing its worldwide gross to ₹3.92 billion ($90 million)[a][4][5] — it was the highest-grossing Indian film ever at the time.[19] The film also had a social impact on attitudes to education in India,[20] as well as education in other Asian countries such as China.[7]
The film won six Filmfare Awards including Best Film and three National Film Awards including Best Popular Film. Overseas, it won the Grand Prize at Japan's Videoyasan Awards[21][22][18] while it was nominated for Best Outstanding Foreign Language Film at the Japan Academy Awards[23][24] and Best Foreign Film at China's Beijing International Film Festival.[25] This film was remade in Tamil as Nanban (2012), which also received critical praise and commercial success.[26][27] Nanban had a Telugu dubbed version titled Snehitudu. A Mexican remake, 3 idiotas, was also released in 2017 and an Israeli remake, 3 idiotim, will also be released in 2021. [28]
It was a best movie I ever seen😊
Great movie