There was so much secret surrounding 3 Idiots that those attending the press screening in New York City were requested to sign a confidentiality agreement and were told that there was an embargo on reviews prior to the film's December 23 premiere in India. 3 Idiots is the work by some very smart people - starting with Chetan Bhagat whose best-selling novel Five Point Someone is an inspiration for the film Hirani, who carries the critical and box office successes of the two Munnabhai films on his shoulders Aamir Khan, who supposedly is the most astute and calculating actor of our times, Chopra's long-time writing collaborator and playwright Abhijat Joshi, who quotes Henri Cartier-Bresson in the film's programme notes and the wonderfully talented musician Shantanu Moitra, who has done his best works for Chopra's films.Īnd there is Chopra, the film's producer - who partly as a result of his repertoire of films - fancies himself to be a powerhouse, similar to the Hollywood studio giants. I do not know Chopra personally nor his third-time director for hire Rajkumar Hirani. But in watching the press preview of 3 Idiots, I was drawn to Mehta's observation. At one point Mehta suggests that Chopra is one person, but split into two personalities - a thinking man's filmmaker, graduate of the Pune Film Institute, well-versed in the works of the international masters, as well as a big budget Bollywood producer, who has to make artistic compromises so that his films can become commercially successful. And Mehta concludes that people working in Bollywood are far smarter than the films they churn out.
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