Nevertheless, they managed to squeeze all the important elements of the movie well. According to people who have seen the movie, it is really long. We are not sure if that is the director’s cut we watched or if the movie was really that long. The movie was two hours and forty minutes long. The editing had a few issues with continuity. And from what i read, the set that they used for the engineering school is really small. (probably in india) it featured some really great shots of buildings and landscapes. Although, i’m not sure where those locations are. The cinematography is good, they featured a lot of great sights and locations.
Especially the dance numbers done by the students, it takes lots of patience in doing such for a film. This tiny sequence was enough to establish the strength of his back story that it was indeed just his two friends who were his most prized possessions, his lifelines.The direction was good, because there a lot happening in one sequence and the director managed to do everything he can to direct everyone else who was part of the film. With “Jaane nahin denge tujhe” playing in the background, he clears the traffic on his scooty, and every heart pains. Wearing a blood-stained T-shirt, his panic, desperation and fear of losing his friend was palpable. Rancho’s most striking scene, according to me, was when he led the trail of vehicles and ambulance after Raju tried to commit suicide. (Who wouldn’t want to just hug him and tell him that nose is never a problem.) He was brilliant at studies, passionate about acquiring knowledge and yet, naive and vulnerable when it was about love. Rancho set his own rules, broke them, only to create new ones. He spoke the simplest language, had a sparkle in his eyes like any other ambitious student, and a major credit for this goes to Aamir Khan for infusing life into Rancho. He wore the most casual attire, his regular sling bag was something we all have owned, he did not sport a chiseled body much like his contemporaries from other Hindi films. Rancho resonated with our feelings because of several reasons. But did any of these have a friend like Rancho? No. When 3 Idiots came, friendship films in Bollywood meant Rang De Basanti, Dil Chahta Hai, Sholay, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Rock On or Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar. Yes, we’ve definitely had our Jai-Veerus, Amar-Prems et al, but Rancho was nothing we had seen before. To find a friend like Rancho in Bollywood would be difficult. He had the funniest reactions to the most serious situations and that helped ease out the tension which would otherwise have made 3 Idiots preachy. Rancho was also the naughtiest one around, had the wackiest plans, did the craziest stuff in college, and left his Director (Virus) taking blood pressure pills. Aamir Khan’s Rancho was a boy-next-door, yet someone who can be very different to find.īut this did not make him a saint. He taught us that it is okay to take risks and fail, for at least we tried. No wonder his friends aptly called him Baba Ranchoddas. Be it his mantra of “need is the mother of every invention” to “be practical, not theoretical” and “do what you love and not what others want”, each one had a deep connection in our day-to-day lives. Rancho had ideas, inputs and life lessons at every step. Though his character (and the film) was adapted from Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone, his personification made him one of the best remembered characters in recent years.
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