3 idiots and IIT and me.

3 idiots is a nice name. This movie comes with a nice message. But may be since I already knew what was going to happen in the movie to some extent, I was not so intensely moved. But I really like Amir for all this great work. He is awesome. I admire him a lot for all the good stuff he has done so far.

I remember my first interaction with Indian Institute of Technology, on which this movie is based slightly. Well, there was a time when once I tried to get into IIT after 12th desperately. I studies intensely but I today understand my method of preparation was wrong. There was not much awareness about IIT around 10 years back when I appeared for it. Out of entire Pune students, only 3 students managed to get into IIT in my batch. One of this was my room mate from SP College hostel, Vipul Mehta, who is pursuing his PhD at present in US after his dual degree in Mechanical engineering from IIT. The proportion of students getting into IIT from Pune increased slowly thereafter, with I guess around 150 students securing entry in one of the IITs this year. There is huge awareness now, which was missing totally then. Well, after desperately studying for 2 years, when I failed to make through the exam. I know how badly I had cried on the day of announcement of results.

IIT always fancied me and I never left a chance to visit it when I happened to get a chance during Techfests, the technical competitions held at IIT Mumbai each year. I used to share room with Vipul for those 2,3 days. I still remember the first visit of techfest, when I saw Vipul with his robot :) There was an intense envy in my mind, as in why I am not here, why I have not built this robot :) I have some great memories from IIT interactions. Anurag, my other room partner, who studied from JJ Grant Bombay for his medical and now researching HIV in UK, if you are reading this, do you remember your confession of proposal to your wife, to your friends during one of these days? We were like Aha, the first love in our friend circle :)

Amir plays an excellent character. He sends really good message. But mostly it happens that students and parents in their pursue for money after engineering forget all they did during engineering and join some IT company and become some developer, earn money, get car, marry and stay happy (????) there after. Well, Amir our country faces so much dilemma in terms of money that people chose to ignore what they love or fear taking risks. They think it is their duty to get into the prototype life that one sees around, if they will try to break out of it, they will be punished severely. Well also not everybody is as intelligent as your character. Well, not everybody is really aware of what they really want or what they are really good at. Or many times some people like me, who keep on struggeling to find what they are really good at, many times time flies by :) Some times people like me, get interested in everything :P haha. So there lies a different sort of problem altogether :) Well, how many of you are doing what you are doing, because you know you want to do that? Especially all those IT folks who are out there.

Nice movie Amir. I admire you for your hard work and quality. May we keep on getting the excellence like this always.