Could not help but notice how beautifully Amir has been able to portray life of middle class Indians. No wonder all his movies are super duper hits after all any movie which can exhibit reality with a bit of masala and hope is bound to be a hit.
A small inference of a child or human being life in India is as follows. A small kid is born and it is time for a celebration in the house,the first 6-11 months of his/her life are the best, do any thing you like kick up in the air, take a leak anywhere anytime and no one complains. everyone come to you with a smile or is busy making you smile.... what a life!!!. But like all good things this does not last too long.
The day you speak out your first words of your native language is when the trouble begins. Shortly you will have the education system taking the grip of your life 'A is for apple and B is for bat or ball which ever is easier to speak' and we have another martyr to the Indian education system. Parent start nurturing a secret desire of what they want their children to become or lets put it this way, what they could not but want their children to do it for them or something that the society thinks is WOW.. I mean for god sake ask the child what he wants isn't it that we live in a democratic country, the right to expression and action.. but then how can the child know what shithole he is being put into, they have given us birth so they know best. who better than parents to guide in our adolescence days And we are not small to make out that we are acting in wake of the society definition of fruitful and honorable life.
Story continues the child is pulled apart in two different directions one what he likes and what the society wants him to do. Go to school mug up all the poems twinkle twinkle little star etc etc.. and then the life long activity of getting report cards and unhappy parents begins..TZPe you know what I m talking about , agreed we may not be suffering from a disease like that but then are state is not too diff.... may be if your parents supportive you might land up learning a few extra curricular activities or may be a few sports if you were in the right school but then we are not talking about exception...
First 16 years they just want to have good report cards so that family's social status is maintained but then after the secret dreams of our parents surface that they have been nurturing and it becomes are mission and the only meaning of our life... doc engineer and so forth... The next step a hard working horse who is just able to see the path ahead shown to him. beginning of a long long journey of hurried lunches, sleepless nights and tuitions (the girls we meet at tuitions seem to be a bonus :) )
And the next part is what is truly described by 3 Idiots, engineering/medicals colleges mug the books, bookworm getting better marks and teachers saying more than often ' I will get back to you on this' and post the questions you are topping his hate list of annoying students. You can explain what you understand better than the bookworm but he gets better marks cause cause he photocopies the book on to the answer sheets kudos to his memory but pity on his short term memory as he does not remembers any thing the next day....
I wonder sometime are we humans or a machine which can at times feel emotions... we are born and the rest is already decided, you learn to walk when you are 1, school at 3, coll at 17, job at 21 marriage at 27 and reproduction at 29 and the cycle repeats it self.... is this not mechanical and are we are not machines....
"Give me some sunshine give me some rain give me another chance to grow up once again..."
