Sun Rise

Three stars and a sun, engraved in Juan's Arms
The ink remained, the pain is visible, it will never fade
But the memory of the brave is buried in the grave
At dawn he waits for the rising sun to alight

The jeepney intrudes the whistling sound of the night
The child mourns and weeps in the cradle of filth
Even with closed eyes, they are still waiting for the rising sun
Will it ever come? What happened to the beaming sun?

The begging, the pleading, it's all bleeding
Still gazing at the grain of sands
The time has travelled through the glass
Juan ,unawakened ,comforted by the blind sight

Bow down before the stouts
We ousted them, yes we ousted them
But the chains are not yet broken
Still tied up in the swollen lane

Like a child holding the kite
Running towards the greener field
Competing against the bright lights
But the stage have left them behind

They have become the pawns, gambled by the play of supremacy
The flag was raised but why do we remain in languish?
Poisoned in the lethal mindsets, paralyzed in the culture of convergence
Can we still see the rising sun,
When Juan has chosen to play the blind, deaf and mute?

3 idiots (I)

All is Well

Movie plot

Two friends (R. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi) embark on a quest for a lost buddy. On this journey, they encounter a long forgotten bet, a wedding they must crash, and a funeral that goes impossibly out of control. As they make their way through the perilous landscape, another journey through memory lane and the story of their friend - the irrepressible free-thinker Rancho (Aamir Khan), who in his unique way, touched and changed their lives. It's a story of their hostel days that swings between Rancho's romance with the spirited Pia (Kareena Kapoor), and his clash with an oppressive mentor, Viru Sahastrabudhhe (Boman Irani). And then one day, suddenly, Rancho vanishes....
Who was he? Where did he come from? Why did he leave?
The friends who influenced and inspired them to think creatively and independently, even as the conformist world called them three idiots. Where is the original idiot now?
Finally, in misty mountains of unparalled beauty, the friends find the key to the secret.
Three idiots is a comedy of ideas that is as provocative as it is funny, as wildly entering as it it insighful. A laugh-riot that talks about the most important of human pursuits; self-actualization.

Source: Nilesh P. Khandare(02 Nov 2009)

This movie was released in India in year 2009 and it gained as the highest-grossing film in its opening weekend in India and has the highest opening day collections for a Bollywood film.

So this is the movie that people are talking about. When I asked my friends what good movie to watch they quickly replied me with “3 idiots”.  From the title itself, I knew it would be somehow a comedy flick but I never thought it would be a Hindi film. Yes, I though it was an American movie. Well lately I’ve been enjoying myself watching some Kdaramas, Thai movies and now a Hindi film. (But I always love Pinoy Movies.hehhe) .I feel like I have explored the different cultures through movies, series and music. Although I haven’t been out of the country I feel like I have touched the different lands of Asia.

Well, years ago I was captivated by the Hindi music, I am always amused by their dance and it is actually my first time to see a Hindi film. Well who could not forget slum dog millionaire? Yes it was a movie in a Hindi setting but it was made and produce by British film makers.

3 idiots is not like any other film. It’s not on 3d , it has no special effects , no grand costumes and was not released internationally but it has a magnificent story  which will surely touch your heart. I’ve been laughing and crying the entire film but above all, in each scene I have learned and realize the important things in life. 

There are different types of movies, there are Movies that made you think, movies that made you aware, movies that urged you to imagine, movies that inspired you, movies that purely entertained you and movies that satisfied your pleasure. Three idiots is a movie that contains all the basic ingredients with special spices, it is a unique recipe.

Free as the winds as he

Like a soaring kite was he

Where did he go? Let’s find him

Stumbling, rising carefree

Living each moment to the fullest

He who touched our hearts and vanished

Never hesitating to swim against the tide

He was our dearest friend

These were the lines form the opening song in the movie, and indeed the song fully depicts the movie. Yes Rancho was a no worry man but he stood with his convictions. He was different from others. Farhan and Raju were his closes friends and together with Chatur “the silencer” they brought back the memories of Rancho and with those memories they tried to trace where Rancho is.

Life is a race if you don’t run fast you will be like broken anda..(Rancho mimicking Virus)

In the movie Virus (The head of their school) also have taught his students that life is a race and run fast or you will be trampled. Rancho disagreed to this. I got amuse in a scene where in virus was very mad at Rancho and he let him teach engineering in a class. Rancho asked the students including his professor to search for a word for 30 seconds. All the people in the class got panic and were rushing to find the word but in the end they found out that the word doesn’t exist and was only taken from the name of his friends. Rancho questioned them on whether they were so curious when he let them find the words or were they interested because they are going to learn something new. Rancho said they were all in a hurry; this is an academy not a pressure cooker. Yes in this modern living we are all caught up by pressures. And I guess this happens in some academies, instead of teaching lessons that can be applied in the real world, students are taught to be on a race. When I asked some of my friends on what have they learned for their 3 years in college they can’t even give an answer, they would just state that “as long as I pass and got a diploma then that is good”. Some of my classmates are even stating that we could only actually learn after we graduate college. Then my question is what college is for? Are we only investing money for nothing? Well in my case I must admit in the first two years some of the lessons just ran out of my ears, I got good grades not because I truly understand it but because I took time to memorize it. And that is reality for me, memorize and erase well maybe I could remember a little but truthfully I also feel like I am going to only really learn after graduation. And most of us are always thinking of time, thinking of time to graduate on time because of we don’t want to get behind. But is that really the best? I don’t know the answer.

These engineers are very smart sir, they didn't invent a machine which can measure the pressure on brain. If one such machine they would have made, we would have come to know this not a suicide but a Murder.

This is the line said by Rancho when talking to virus about the incident that happened to Joy. Rancho was actually trying to help Joy but it was too late since he hung himself on a rope. Yes Joy was pressured to produce a machine, the helicopter, and he end up ending his self. On his wall the words “I quit” were written.

Give me some Sunshine
give me some rain
Give me another chance
wana grow up once again

These were the lines form the song Joy sung before he ended his life. It seems to be that he was pleading for one more chance. Virus didn’t give him another chance to prove the machine he invented. We all deserve chances; even the most wrong person deserves a second chance. Sometimes the society is too harsh, and yes it is already a system. The labeling is a killing system. When a person commits an unacceptable act people would put that person inside a box and put a name on it and everyone would remember that person by the labeled name. Even though a person does a thousand wonderful things but by a single mistake he/she could be condemned. Isn’t that unfair and too cruel? Suddenly people would forget the good things by just one single mistake. And I guess that is why we really need to be careful with our actions; it is the same thing with reputation and trust. It takes years to be credible and to have a high reputation but by just one wrong hoop it goes back to zero.

Everybody needs and deserves a second chance because I always believe that in every man’s bad heart there is always a good piece of it, it just need nourishment and eventually that good piece would grow and conceal the bad part. Every body needs a chance to prove one’s self because everyone deserves a spotlight and because everyone is a lead character.

 Yes the pressure is very powerful it could motivate or shut down a person.

Morally, we could say suicide is wrong because we have no right to end our own life and we have the obligation to preserve and take care of life. But yes in some points I do agree with Rancho it is because of the system. In the movie students are expected to be the best. Joy was almost on his triumph for his project but Virus ignored it because it was not on time. 

One of my teacher before said that those people who committed suicide are actually weak because they can’t handle the problem anymore they just surrender. But I think if only the people around them if only the society were supportive enough then I think they could have not think of ending their lives..Each people need a support system because no man is an island.  And I don’t understand why some other people are imposing their wants to the younger one, just like in the case of Fahran, truly his fate was sealed when he was born. His father decided to let him be an engineer when in fact Fahran loves photography. Sometimes because we worried so much of what people think of us, because we wanted to have a good and fragrant name we tend to be selfish. We tend to only think and care in our own perspective and ignoring the needs of the people around us. Luckily for me I have the choice to choose to study the course that I want but still I am under the shadow. I am still living the expectations of other people. People are expecting me to be academically excellent, people are expecting me and believing in me that I am the child who’s going to bring honor and pull up my family. But seriously I am sick of those tag lines, because the real me just want to be carefree and be the wild child. I am actually afraid to graduate because people are expecting me to have the excellent job and to graduate with honors. In many times I just wish to be the dumb girl and no expectation at all and then one day I’m going to shock them with my success than to be the present nerdy girl who worries a lot about her future. To get away from that pressure I intentionally enrolled myself at the summer class, because with that I am disqualified for graduation honors. I know it is an awesome feeling and a great achievement to graduate with flying colors but I just can’t handle it when I don’t get a good job and people would start saying like you graduate with blah blah blah and here you are blah blah blah. Well I can’t deny that I am still thinking of what are they going to say and think of me but I just want to get loose, I just want to cut of their expectations on me because I want to be like Rancho who is just enjoying every minute of his life.

3 idiots (II)

I cried and at the same time laughed at many scenes and one of it is when Rancho and Pia rushed Rajus’ father on a scooter. Rancho was truly a friend they didn't even study for their final exam because according to Rancho, there are a lot of exams but there is only one father. The three idiots stood by each other. But in their exam day Pia woke them up and told them Raju’s father is in good condition and that they need to take their exam. They were very late and virus didn’t accept their papers So what Rancho did is that he asked the professor if he knew them and the Virus said he did not, so Rancho mixed up the papers he arranged and they run. On the revelation of the results, Farhan and Raju quickly looked on the results they were on the last positions and they thought Rancho didn’t make it but they later found out that Rancho ranked first.

We learnt something about human behavior that day, it feels bad when a friend fails, but it feels even worse when he comes first.

Hahahha this is true. I also felt this some time long ago. I’m not quite sure on why but I guess it maybe because again we all drive for success, we aimed to be the first and even with friends there is a secret competition.

When Raju was in coma because he jumped off the building after virus let him choose between himself and Rancho to get expelled. Rancho was truly a dear friend; he did everything he can do for the recovery of Raju. He did everything to make him life and to motivate him. He never quit with Raju .

When Pia knew that his father virus is going to make the final exam to assure that Raju will fail, she immediately gave the office keys to rancho to steal the questionnaire. Virus found out that they sneaked in to his office and copied the questionnaire and so he expelled the boys. At the same night, Pia blamed his father for the suicide of his brother. She said it was not suicide but murder and ran away from home. It was a stormy night and Pia’s sister is going to give labor but there were heavy floods and they can’t go near to a hospital. Rancho, Farhan, Raju together deliver the baby with the help of a cobbled-together Vacuum extractor.

This was also a hilarious and a very touching scene. The three idiots were delivering the baby of Virus’ daughter.  The baby didn’t cried and no response was manifested but after saying all is well the baby cried. All is well -These three words always came out form Rancho. He said that his hears easily got scared and so he taught it to be strong by saying all is well. Yes it is in the state of mind, believe that everything is fine and definitely everything is at ease. Just let it flow and don’t stress yourself because if you take too much control you easily got frustrated. And this is one thing I would carry on, just let it flow, All is well.

Virus was their main villain and that day they were all prepared to abandon the school but Virus gave rancho the pen, the pen which symbolizes excellence.

In the end Raju.Fahran,pia and Chatur found where rancho is and he had his own school. Well Chatur was boasting all his success and mocked at Rancho and suddenly beg when he found out that rancho was the scientist named Phunsukh Wangdu .

Farhan Qureshi: Today my respect for that idiot shot up. Most of us went to college just for a degree. No degree meant no plum job, no pretty wife, no credit card, and no social status. But none of this mattered to him, he was in college for the joy of learning, he never cared if he was first or last.

So Rancho was not the real Rancho, he was actually the son of the gardener of Real Rancho. He ranked no.1 and got the degree for the sake of the real rancho. He didn’t mind this at all because he was fond of learning.

Rancho was truly an exception. He got a degree for the sake of another person. Amongst all he was the one brave enough….Oh how I wish I could just be like him go to college just for the joy of learning and not thinking of the future. It’s hard no to think of it, maybe because of competition. In the film Virus also said that it is either you compete or die, yes it is true in this world it is a matter of survival and to be able to survive you need to compete. Everyday is a competition, it may not be tangible but in every sense there is a competition. A simple argument with your parents, siblings, friend or teacher is a competition of ideas and statements. Here in the Philippines, there is a massive competition in riding the jeep. Some passengers would run just to get on the backseat. Internally all of us wanted to be the best, we may say we don’t care about winning but at the end of the day we are always thinking and hoping of our own success. Life is a maze, there are other ways, there are different patterns, one may get lost, one may gracefully step the right track and one may meet a dead end. Life is full of options and we always have the chance to choose which button to press.

 He was an idiot because not everyone agreed to his ideas and convictions. Truly rancho was a genius no because he knows every word in a book, not because he had studied the different theories, not because he solves any mathematical problems but because he was able to move people. He was able to change the paradigm of the people living in conventions. He was able to motivate and inspire his friends and that marks a true genius.

Rancho: Pursue excellence, and success will follow pants down.