3 Idiots

No, don't worry, I did not manage to see the movie before its release and am not trying to give my review about the same. No. Aamir ain't my favourite actor and this is not a promotional trip either. I just happened to decode something and this very moment happens to be a eureka moment and here I am telling you about it.

The book Five Point Someone was one that I enjoyed thoroughly during my growing up years. I kept it with me at most places because I really believed in its powers of instant levitation of my mood. The language, the anecdotes,  the visualisations, the comparisons all just bowled me over again and again and again. It is only recently that I have grown out of ''Five-point-someone-is the-most-fun-book'' phase. (Yes it ain't something you admit publicly and sound retarded, but secretly you believe in it with all your heart). Now frankly I am not too fond of books being transformed into movies at least in Bollywood...have not seen too many examples I can be proud of...So when it was announced that Raj Kumar Hirani had decided upon ''Three Idiots'' I was disappointed but keeping the man's credentials in mind I did not really raise a hue and cry, but something that kept my mind in a tizzy for a long long time was why take such an adorable name and transform it into ''Three Idiots''. Yes we do understand that a silver screen adaptation means a lot of transformation will inevitably take place but then why on earth idiots???

I guess I know the answer, well maybe. ''God I feel like such an Idiot'' is a feeling that all of us, each one are so so familiar with. That one time you went out of your way and did all that you could only to receive indifference that kept you so astonished for a long time, that another time when you allowed your pre conceived notions to get the better of you and you did not rise up to the occasion. Only to regret at a later date your indifference and inaction. That another time when you felt so little and feeble, so immature, so childish because someone else was so grown up and said 'U idiot!!!' mebbe not literally but yeah....The time when you flunked and you knew it was not really the bad marking that caused it. The time when you lost out on something that you really wanted and knew it for sure that you were somewhere so so responsible for it.  When you said something unnecessary and hurt the people who love you most and matter most. Or that classic occasion when you were in love but what you din't know that it was just 'you' who was in love and not the other dude or dudette. A plain simple 'Idiot' is what you feel like. Mebbe thats one state of being, one emotion that summarizes it all, that we all know so well and hence...idiots..all of us at one point of time or another...