After talking about his bet with Rancho about who can become more successful, Chatur reveals that Rancho is in Shimla and the three begin their journey. Farhan meets up with another friend, Raju Rastogi ( Sharman Joshi), and rushes to the Imperial College of Engineering (ICE) to meet Chatur. Wildlife photographer Farhan Qureshi ( R. Madhavan) receives a phone call from his collegemate Chatur Ramalingam ( Omi Vaidya), claiming that he knows where Farhan's long-lost friend Ranchhoddas "Rancho" Shamaldas Chanchad ( Aamir Khan) is. A Mexican remake, 3 Idiotas, was also released in 2017. The film was remade in Tamil as Nanban (2012), which also received critical praise and commercial success. Overseas, it won the Grand Prize at Japan's Videoyasan Awards while it was nominated for Best Outstanding Foreign Language Film at the Japan Academy Awards and Best Foreign Film at China's Beijing International Film Festival. ģ Idiots won six Filmfare Awards including Best Film and three National Film Awards including Best Popular Film. The film also had a social impact on attitudes to education in India, as well as education in other Asian countries such as China. Eventually, it became one of the few Indian films at the time to become successful in East Asian markets such as China and Japan, eventually bringing its worldwide gross to ₹3.92 billion ($90 million) - it was the highest-grossing Indian film ever at the time and the highest grossing Indian film of the 2000s. The film received critical acclaim and huge commercial success upon its release on 25 December 2009 it was also the highest-grossing film in its opening weekend in India, had the highest opening day collections for an Indian film up until that point and also held the record for the highest net collections in the first week for a Hindi film. Produced by Chopra under the banner Vinod Chopra Films, 3 Idiots incorporated real Indian inventions created by Remya Jose, Mohammad Idris, Jahangir Painter and Sonam Wangchuk, the lattermost of whom also inspired Khan's character. Narrated through parallel dramas, one in the present and the other ten years in the past, the story follows the friendship of three students at an Indian engineering college and is a satire about the social pressures under an Indian education system. Adapted loosely from Chetan Bhagat's novel Five Point Someone, the film stars Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi in the titular roles, marking their reunion three years after the 2006 film Rang De Basanti, while Kareena Kapoor, Boman Irani and Omi Vaidya star in pivotal roles. He performed the scene brilliantly! Not often do you get to see Madhavan like that because he rarely gets drunk.3 Idiots is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, edited and directed by Rajkumar Hirani and co-written by Abhijat Joshi, with producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra acting as a screenplay associate. By the time we were ready for the scene, we were a little too high, but Maddy was even more so. Madhavan is not much of a drinker but in order to catch up with us, he had a few drinks too fast. Aamir suggested that we drink and perform." PS - we all know Aamir Khan's reputation as a perfectionist.īack to the story - Sharman said what followed was a hilarious chain of events, leading to brilliant performances by all three actors, especially Madhavan: "Aamir and I were on time to start drinking but Maddy had some work and reached a little late. In an interview with Times Of India, Sharman Jodhi shared an ROFL idea Aamir Khan came up with for one of the scenes: "I especially remember the one scene where Aamir, Maddy and I were drunk and cursing Boman Irani's character in the film. 3 Idiots cast Aamir, Sharman and Madhavan as college mates while Boman Irani played the role of the college dean, they hated. "Aamir and I were on time to start drinking," he addedġ2 years after 3 Idiots, actor Sharman Joshi reveals how he and his co-stars Aamir Khan and R Madhavan prepared for a crucial scene in the movie."Aamir suggested that we drink and perform," said Sharman Joshi.Sharman Joshi shared an ROFL story from '3 Idiots' shoot.