Learnings from the movie "3 Idiots"

Sunday, January 31, 2010



A few days back I saw the movie "3 Idiots",and found that something special is there in this movie,which attracts people,not just for watching the movie but to understand and realize seriously why this movie is made.

Ofcourse every movie is made for entertaining and business purpose but only a few movies gives special messages to the audience/viewers."3 Idiots" is one such classic movie which not only entertain us but also give us some message or learnings that can be fruitful for us in our life as we proceed.

Some of the learnings which I could figure out from the movie based on my understandings are as follows:-

1.Don't run after success/money,try to gain excellence,success will come running after you,Success is the by-product. Excellence always creates success. So, never run after the success, let it happen automatically in the life.

2.Don't be a part of rat-race always

3.Do that work only where your heart and soul is there fully,only there can you excel and flourish more favorable results.

4.Whenever you find any problem in life,put ur hand on ur heart and say "all izz well",it will not solve the problem,but the heart will be diverted from the issue and feel relaxed and we will get time to think about a solution for the same.

5.Don’t die before actual death. Live every moment to the fullest as you are going to die today night. Life is gifted to humankind to live, live & live in happiness.

6.When your hobby becomes your profession and passion becomes your profession. You will be able to lead up to excellence in the life. Satisfaction, pleasure, joy and love will be the outcome of following passion. Following your passion for years, you will surely become something one day.

7.Teachers do fail. Learners never fail. Learning is never complicated or difficult.
Learning is always possible whatever rule you apply.

8.Current education system is developing pressures on student's head. University intelligence is useful and making some impact in the life but it cannot be at the cost of the life.

9. Life Is Emotion Management Not Intelligence Optimization. Memory and regular study have definite value and it always helps you in leading a life. You are able to survive even if you can make some mark in the path of the life. With artificial intelligence, you can survive and win but you cannot prove yourself genius. Therefore, in this process genius dies in you.Never let the genius inside us die in this rat-race.Otherwise it will be difficult for us to prove our own identity.

10. Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention.Necessity creates pressure and forces you to invent something or to make it happen or to use your potentiality. Aamir Khan(Phunsukh Waangdu/Ranchhod Das Syamaldas Chanchad) in this film, 3 Idiots, is able to prove in the film by using vaccum pump at the last moment for child delivery.

11. Simplicity is Life.Desires have no ends. Simplicity is way of life and Indian culture highly stresses on "Simple Living and High Thinking", and this is the way of life:- ‘Legs down to earth and eyes looking beyond the sky’.

12. Movie focuses on the Industrial Leadership in present scenario.Dean of the institute(Veenu Sahastrabuddhi played by Boman Irani) in 3 idiots is showing very typical leadership. He has his own principles, values and ideology, and he leads the whole institute accordingly. This is an example of current institutional leadership. In the present scenario, most of the institutes are fixed in a block or Squarish thinking.

13. Importance Of even One Word is having a great value in Communication.If communication dies, everything dies. Each word has impact and value in communication. One word if used wrongly or emphasized wrongly or paused at a wrong place in communication what effect it creates and how is it affected is demonstrated very well in this movie.(Remember the Speech given by Chatur Ramalingam on Teacher's Day)

14. Mediocrity Is Penalized always. Middle class family or average talent or average institute is going to suffer and has to pay maximum price in the life if they do not upgrade their living standards. To be born poor or as an average person is not a crime but to die as an average person with middle class talent is miserable and if you are unable to optimize your potentiality and die with unused potentiality then that is your shameful truth. One should not die as a mediocre. He/she has to bring out genius inside him/her and has to use his/her potentiality to the optimum level.


Author:-Mohit Kumar Jain(January-2010)

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