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Aamir Khan & Raj Kumar Hirani certainly gave us the most successful movie of all time as “3 Idiots” and it was indeed a well directed & brilliantly acted movie which was widely appreciated unanimously both by the critiques as well as the masses.
But the makers surely should have avoided the famous controversial clash between the producer-director and the writer Chetan Bhagat, whose novel was the main inspiration behind the movie and who was also duly paid for the rights of his works. The episode may have acted as another boost for the movie’s overall business but it was clearly not a pleasant sight to see our favourite film-makers coming on the news channels for all the wrong reasons.
However, apart from the Chetan Bhagat’s novel, there were also few more sequences in the movie, which seem to be highly inspired from their foreign sources mentioned below:
Firstly,the animated sequence where all the sperms are running towards becoming a baby is very much similar to the one in Woody Allen’s 1972 movie called “Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask”. Interestingly in Woody’s movie there is a complete good length sequence enacted by real life actors posing as sperms ready to run. A must watch for all.
Secondly, the examination hall scene where Aamir plays a trick when he is not allowed to submit his papers after the exam is also on the similar lines of an Advertisement of Instant Kiwi. In the commercial too, the student asks the examiner whether he knows him or his role number? And when the examiner says he doesn’t, the smart student quietly slips his answer sheet in the bunch of other papers lying on the table and moves out of the class laughing.
Thirdlythe idea of those famous buttock seats used in the movie is taken from the exactly similar ones found in a park of China. You can took a look at them at the following link :
Lastly as written in my review, the basic format of the movie remains very close to Hirani’s own debut venture “Munnabhai MBBS”. It has many similar (not identical) scenes of college
classrooms, lectures and exams (though the subjects are different). The interaction between Boman and Aamir is on the similar lines of Boman and Sanjay Dutt. There is also a Hospital Sequence of Sharman getting paralyzed and Aamir curing him with his miraculous ways (quite identical to Carrom Board Sequence in Munna Bhai). The lead character is again in love with the daughter of his annoying professor. And lastly as there was “Jaadoo Ki Jhappi” in Munna Bhai and “Gandhigiri” in “Lage Raho”, similarly here we have a new phrase “All Izz Well” used in 3 Idiots to woo the audiences.
In other words, if you watch the movie, replacing Aamir’s character with Munna Bhai then with minor changes here & there the movie can easily be called as “Munna Bhai Chale Engineer Banne”.
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