3 Idiots (2009)

Director:

Rajkumar Hirani

Writers:

Rajkumar Hirani (dialogue) &
Abhijit Joshi (dialogue) ...
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Release Date:

24 December 2009 (Malaysia)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Plot:

Two friends are searching for their long lost companion. They revisit their college days and recall the memories of their friend who inspired them to think differently, even as the rest of the world called them "idiots".

Plot Keywords:

Student | College | Buddy | Engineering | Friend

Awards:

19 wins & 10 nominations

Cast

Aamir Khan	...	'Rancho' Shamaldas Chanchad
Kareena Kapoor	...	Pia
Madhavan	...	Farhan Qureshi (as R. Madhavan)
Sharman Joshi	...	Raju Rastogi
Boman Irani	...	Viru Sahastrabudhhe
Omi Vaidya	...	Chatur 'Silencer' Ramalingam
Mona Singh	...	Mona
Javed Jaffrey	...	Ranchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad (as Jaaved Jaaferi)
Parikshat Sahni	...	Mr. Qureshi (as Pareekshit Sahani)
Rahul Kumar	...	Millimeter - MM
Amardeep Jha	...	Mrs. Rastogi
Farida Dadi	...	Mrs. Qureshi
Mukund Bhatt	...	Mr. Rastogi
Chaitali Bose	...	Kamini 'Kammo' Rastogi
Jayant Kripalani	...	Campus Interview Panel Head (as Jayant Kriplani)
Arun Bali	...	Shamaldas Chanchad (as Aron Baali)
Shoaib Ahmed	...	Chhote
Dushyant Wagh	...	Centimeter
Pooja Goswami	...	Air Hostess
A.S. Duggal	...	Pilot (as Captain A.S. Duggal)
Annapurna Kaul	...	Airline Ground Staff 1
Chandrashekhar	...	Airline Ground Staff 2
R.S. Kodange	...	Doctor at Airport
Dharmendra Bhurji	...	Airport Cab Driver
Meghna Bhalla	...	Raju's Wife
Harvinder Singh	...	Mr. Dhillon
Dilshad Edibam	...	Aunt at Farhan's Birth
Rajeev Ravindranathan	...	Lead Ragging Senior (as Rajeev Ravindranath)
Hitesh Tak	...	Ragging Senior 2
Rajendra Patwardhan	...	Govind
Achyut Potdar	...	Machine Class Professor
Ali Fazal	...	Joy Lobo
Madhav Vaze	...	Joy's Father
Dileep Desai	...	Priest at Joy's funeral
Raghunathan	...	Professor in Corridor (as Prof. Raghunath)
Vaidyanathan	...	Professor Vaidyanathan (as Prof. Vaidyanathan)
Kumar Veer Singh	...	Waiter at Mona's Wedding
Shailja Dhar	...	Lady at Mona's Wedding (as Shailaja Dhar)
Dinesh Kumar	...	Mona's Husband
Aakash Dabhade	...	ICE Student 2
Apul Jaisinghani	...	ICE Student 3
Trilok Sadhwani	...	ICE Student 4
Akhil Mishra	...	Librarian Dubey
Sonu	...	Library Clerk
Atul Tiwari	...	Minister in Auditorium
Praful Kulkarni	...	Doctor startled by scooter in hospital (as Dr. Praful Kulkarni)
Jalil Parkar	...	Doctor1 Attending on Raju's Father (as Dr. Jalil Parkar)
Debashish Naha	...	Doctor2 Attending on Raju's Father (as Dr. Debashish Naha)
Michael Joseph	...	Exam Hall Professor
Smriti	...	Girl at Notice Board with Chatur
Sanjay Sood	...	Peanut Vendor at Shimla
Dayal Sharma	...	Caretaker at Shyamaldas' House
Rakesh Sharma	...	Minister at Shyamaldas' Funeral
Elihud George	...	Chote's Teacher (Masterji)
Sarvanna	...	College Security Guard
Tanveer Ahmed	...	Professor in Induction Motor Class
Shankar Sachdev	...	Ambulance Driver
Kishor Patil	...	Doctor in Ambulance with Raju (as Dr. Kishor Patil)
Insia Lacewalla	...	Nurse
Keshav Rae	...	Campus Interview Panelist 1
Lata Kurdikar	...	Campus Interview Panelist 2 (as Mrs Lata Kurdikar)
Suhas Vaidya	...	Campus Interview Panelist 3
Nishi Singh	...	Maid at Pia's House
Saurabh Agnihotri	...	Housekeeping Boy at Pia's Wedding
Sitaram Sharma	...	Manager at Pia's Wedding
Pundit Prayag Raj	...	Panditji at Pia's Wedding
Supriya Shukla	...	Matron in Hospital with Pia
Malvika Singh	...	Mona's Baby
Tsanwal Namgyal	...	Kid 1 at Rancho's School
Jigmet Dorjey	...	Kid 2 at Rancho's School
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Pitobash	...	Junior 1
Bharat Jha	...	Manager (uncredited)
Omi	...	Chatur - pondicherry boy (uncredited)

Directed by
Rajkumar Hirani

Writing credits
Rajkumar Hirani		(dialogue) &
Abhijit Joshi		(dialogue) (as Abhijat Joshi)
Vidhu Vinod Chopra		screenplay associate

Produced by
Vidhu Vinod Chopra	....	producer
Vir Chopra	....	creative producer
Anil Davda	....	executive producer
Sanjiv Kishinchandani	....	line producer
Aman Mahajan	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Shantanu Moitra
Atul Raninga
Sanjay Wandrekar

Cinematography by
C.K. Muraleedharan

Film Editing by
Ranjeet Bahadur
Rajkumar Hirani

Casting by
Menaka Nagarajan

Art Direction by
Rajnish Hedao

Costume Design by
Manish Malhotra
Sheena Parikh		(as Sheena Parekh)
Raghuveer Shetty

Makeup Department
Vikram Gaikwad	....	makeup designer
Suraj Godambe	....	hair stylist
Ritesh Naik	....	makeup artist
Serena Tixeira	....	key hair stylist
Brian Wade	....	special animatronic baby effects designer and creator

Production Management
Atishay Dayal	....	assistant production manager
Salim Qureshi	....	production manager
Sarvesh Singh	....	unit production manager
Bhavin Thakkar	....	production manager
Sachin Utekar	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Gaurav Chandelya	....	third assistant director
Mrunmayee Lagoo	....	third assistant director
Rajesh Mapuskar	....	associate director
Rohan Mapuskar	....	third assistant director
Menaka Nagarajan	....	second second assistant director
Karan Narvekar	....	second assistant director
Jai Sharma	....	second assistant director
Karan Tejpal	....	second assistant director
Vinay Waikul	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Ajay Chodanker	....	assistant art director
Sunil Gujar	....	graphic designer
Ramakant Kanojia	....	graphic designer
Vipin Kumar	....	assistant art director
Dhananjay Thorat	....	graphic designer

Sound Department
Sanjay Chaturvedi	....	additional dialogue editor
Anup Dev	....	re-recording engineer
Gyana Mishra	....	boom operator
Nihar Ranjan Samal	....	production sound mixer: sync
Nihar Ranjan Samal	....	sound recordist
Sachin K. Sanghvi	....	sound recordist
Varun Visoi	....	foley recordist

Special Effects by
Brian Wade	....	special animatronic baby effects designer and creator

Visual Effects by
Mohd Abrez	....	digital compositor
Badarinathchinimilli	....	digital compositor
Biju Dhanpalan	....	visual effects: Fable Farm (as Biju D.)
Achal Muchhala	....	digital compositor: Reliance MediaWorks Ltd.
Bhavesh Patel	....	visual effects: Fable Farm
Mitul Patel	....	visual effects: Fable Farm
Rajiv Raghunathan	....	digital intermediate production head
Rajeev Rajasekharan	....	CG supervisor
Akshay Sachdeva	....	matchmover
Parantap Singh	....	digital compositor
Muthu Stalin	....	compositor
Mahesh Sundriyal	....	smoke/flame artist
Manoj Sundriyal	....	smoke/flame artist
Amol Thakur	....	visual effects: Fable Farm

Stunts
Shyam Kaushal	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Piyush Acharya	....	jimmy jib operator
Arjun Singh Bhurji	....	key grip
Dharmendra Bhurji	....	key grip
Ramani Ranjan Das	....	first assistant camera
Zeshaan Akbar Latif	....	still photographer
Deval Samanta	....	gaffer

Animation Department
Vikas Sawlani	....	vfx artist

Casting Department
Rohan Mapuskar	....	casting assistant

Editorial Department
Ranjeet Bahadur	....	co-editor
Gaurav Chandelya	....	assistant editor
Makarand Surte	....	digital intermediate colorist

Music Department
Subir Kumar Das	....	surround music mixer
Shreya Ghoshal	....	playback singer
Suraj Jagan	....	playback singer
Swanand Kirkire	....	lyricist
Swanand Kirkire	....	playback singer
Sonu Nigam	....	playback singer
Sachin K. Sanghvi	....	song and music recordist
Shaan	....	playback singer

Other crew
Anil Arjun	....	head of distribution: overseas: Reliane team
Ranjeet Bahadur	....	dialogue supervisor
Bosco	....	choreographer (as Bosco-Ceaser)
Cesar	....	choreographer (as Bosco-Ceaser)
Dileep Desai	....	production coordinator
Subhash Dhar	....	chief executive: international operations
Avit Dias	....	choreographer
Ramakant Dubey	....	chief accountant
Thomas Marcus George	....	development & marketing executive
Amitabh Gupta	....	legal & insurance advisor
Arun Mishra	....	project team: Reliance team
Himanshu Nanda	....	publicity design: H-One
Rahul Nanda	....	publicity design: H-One
Kirit Parekh	....	senior accountant
Ashni Parikh	....	legal consultant
Anil Sekhri	....	chartered accountant
Rohit Sharma	....	project head: Reliance team
Deepa Singh	....	project team: Reliance team
Navmeet Singh	....	production assistant (as Navmeet Arora)
Sachin Utekar	....	location manager

Thanks
Javed Akhtar	....	special thanks
Sunil Behra	....	special thanks
Jitendra Bhargava	....	special thanks (as Jitendra Bhargava, Air India)
Sajal Desai	....	special thanks (as Dr. Sajal Desai)
Amitabh Jhunjhunwala	....	special thanks
T. Kundu	....	special thanks (as Prof. T. Kundu, IIT Bombay)
Diya Mirza	....	special thanks (as Dia Mirza)
Indu Shekhar Vasisst	....	special thanks (as Indu Shekhar Vasisst, CAO, IIM Bangalore)
Rajiv Verma	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Eros International
• Reliance Big Pictures
• Vinod Chopra Productions

Distributors

• Reliance Big Pictures (2009) (worldwide) (theatrical)
• Reliance Big Pictures (2009) (worldwide) (video)
• Reliance Big Pictures (2009) (worldwide) (TV)
• MegaVision (2013) (Philippines) (theatrical)
• Nikkatsu (2013) (Japan) (theatrical)
• EDKO Film (2012) (Hong Kong) (DVD)
• EDKO Film (2012) (Hong Kong) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Irfan Film (2012) (Turkey) (TV)
• Tanweer Films (2012) (Bangladesh) (TV)
• Tanweer Films (2012) (Bhutan) (TV)
• Tanweer Films (2012) (India) (TV)
• Tanweer Films (2012) (Nepal) (TV)
• Tanweer Films (2012) (Pakistan) (TV)
• Tanweer Films (2012) (Sri Lanka) (TV)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Other Companies

• Anil Girkar & Co.  sound
• Aradhana Sound Services  studio: foley recording (as Aradhana Sound Service)
• BWFX Special Makeup and Effects  animatronic baby effects
• Dayanand Public School, Simla  sincere thanks: for assistance in Himachal
• Delhi Public School, Leh  sincere thanks: for assistance in Ladakh
• Druk White Lotus School  sincere thanks: for assistance in Ladakh
• Fable Farm  visual effects
• Idea Forge Technology  invention used in the film: Quadrotor Helicopter
• Kodak  raw stock
• Lighthouse  lights
• Pancham  studio: dialogue cleaning
• Prime Focus  camera
• Q Factor  studio: sound design
• Reliance MediaWorks  processing: digital intermediate and additional vfx
• Sandhu Transport Services  transport (as Sandhu Transport)
• Shree Balaji Studio  studio: re-recording
• Shree Ganesh Movie Lights  generators
• Shree Ganesh Movie Lights  lights
• Spice  media consultant
• Stereovision  lights
• Subhash Light House  lights (as Subhash Light House, Delhi)
• Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series)  music on (as T-Series)
• Tibetan School, Tsomoriri  sincere thanks: for assistance in Ladakh
• Trigger Happy Entertainment  promo design

Also Known As:

"Three Idiots" - India (English title) (copyright title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for thematic material, some disturbing images and crude humor

Runtime:

170 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi | Urdu | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Ireland:12A | UK:12A | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Ontario) | Singapore:PG | Hong Kong:IIA | Australia:M | New Zealand:M | USA:PG-13 (certificate #46690) | South Korea:12 | Japan:G | Philippines:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Company:

Eros International

Trivia:

Producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra has claimed that 3 Idiots will be legally released on YouTube within 12 weeks of releasing in theaters - a first in the history of Indian cinema.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: During the final scene when Sharman and Madhavan fight with Aamir, the crew is visible in the background.

Quotes:

Viru Sahastrabudhhe:[Angrily looks for Raju in the class] Raju Rastogi?
Raju Rastogi:[a drunk Raju stands up from the last bench of class... and shouts] Yes, sir!
Viru Sahastrabudhhe:How does an induction motor start?
Raju Rastogi:[Raju looks around smilingly and then shouts] Vrrrrommmmmm. Vrrrrrrrooom.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Anjaana Anjaani (2010)

Soundtrack:

Behti Hawa Sa Tha Woh

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