3 Idiots - An illusion

Last evening, I had the previlige to watch the much awaited and the highly hyped movie 3 - idiots and am truly amazed by the way the director who has come up with an issue after issue in his films with novel solutions. First Munnabhai MBBS where he states that patients should be treated humanely and offers some solutions as in how hospitals should function (forms and stuff). In Lage Raho Munnabhai, the director recreates the Gandhian technique and the way it can be used in in the modern world.
In this movie 3-idiots, he focusses on the education system of our country. He has ably shown the plight the students of elite colleges face yet he fails, in this case, to offer solutions to improve our education system.

In the movie there are only talks that the grading system shouldn't be displayed, and the current system doesn't encourage 'original thinking' ( it is similar to Howard Roark in Ayn Rand's 'Fountain Head' who is said to be first hander) and focusses on mugging up. While this may be true, The movie also states that students should always do what they feel they are good at doing. Agreed that these are the problems that the current education system has been facing since long and the condition is getting worse due to increasing competition. Still I wonder how many original thinkers actually are present amongst us. In my life till now, I've come across only about 15-20 such people (Wish to meet a lot of such people). Others even though encouraged to think take ideas from others and build on them (sort of copy paste and mug it up). Also when I have come across a lot of students who actually do not know what he/she wants to do or what he/she is good at. Due their ignorance, they take up doing what the best in the society take up - engineering, MBA, medicine, etc. (sort of peer pressure).

The movie chiefly works because the movie shows what an original thinker can do which most of us (I mean the non-original thinkers) aspire to do but can't do. It works because people relate to the plight faced by them (or their children) in colleges/workplaces where they have to obey the rules (work compulsorily) of the organizations they are in. Now, isn't it human tendency to not do something they are forced to do?

For me the movie was good and watchable - the fun part was very well executed. The most important thing that worked for me in the movie is the Cinematography. Beautiful locations of Laddakh, Shimla, Delhi have been well shot and projected. This is probably the fourth movie where I've really fallen for the cinematography. (Lakshya, Kal Ho na ho, Swades being the 1st three randomly).

Thus, the movie is a sort of mirage which shows the people what they aspire and what they want to be yet doesn't offer proper solutions. Thus, 3-idiots is an illusion.