Earlier, Gemini Film Circuit had procured rights ofMunna Bhai MBBS. Upendra had remade it in Kannada as Uppi Dada MBBS, Kamal Haasan in Tamil as Vasool Raja MBBS and Chiranjeevi in Telugu as Shankar Dada MBBS. In Kannada, it came and went in a jiffy, but it was an outright winner from day one In Telugu. It was a commercially success in Tamil. Read more….

Mona Singh who plays Kareena Kapoor’s elder sister in the movie is referred to as Poonam at the start of the movie by her on-screen father Boman Irani. Read more….

It looks like Aamir Khan wants to distance himself from the controversy that has erupted between the 3 Idiots team and writer Chetan Bhagat, on whose book Five Point Someone the film has been inspired from.

‘Have been going through your responses post the CB  controversy. Some sincere and some insincere. The insincere ones I choose to ignore, but I am very keen to respond to those of you have had very sincere queries, questions and even assumptions,’ Aamir wrote in his blog. ‘I am very keen to present my side of the story, why I said what, why I feel what I feel, and what is the difference between a book and a screenplay, what I feel about ethics of this issue, fair play, morality etc. The whole gamut. I would also like to present some very interesting evidence.’

He added that he would not like to get embroiled in more controversy at the moment.

‘The reason is, that first of all, I think that it is very important that we distance ourselves from this incident to be unemotional about it, me included. Only then will we be able to examine the merits of the case in an unbiased and clinical manner. I am a very emotional person and find it very difficult to be clinical, so for me distance is most important,’ Aamir wrote.

3 Idiots has been inspired from Chetan Bhagat’s best-selling book Five Point Someone. Producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra brought the rights of the book, and director Rajkumar Hirani co-wrote the screenplay, along with Abhijat Joshi.

Bhagat felt cheated, as he felt due credit was not given to him. He claimed that the story credit should go to him, and not Hirani and Joshi, as mentioned in the title credits. Read more…

“He is trying to take away the credit from the film’s writer Abhijat Joshi, which I am very upset about. It is an attempt on his part to try and take the credit away from the person who has actually worked on the script. It’s very unfortunate. There should not be any confusion to anyone that Abhijat is our film’s writer,” Khan told reporters here last night.

Bhagat had earlier accused the film makers of “playing” with him and not giving him adequate credit in 3 Idiots based on his bestseller Five Point Someone.

The actor said the film makers were honest in their agreement with the novelist and had given him his due credit in the film.

“But in my opinion the credit should be given to Abhijat. For three years, this man has worked on the script. Nobody knows him, but Chetan is a big star,” he added.

Recalling that Bhagat had once admitted to him that the film was very different from the book, Khan said, “Now the film has become successful so he is trying to get some publicity. It’s very unfortunate”.

“Abhijat has written the script and Raju Hirani worked on it. Raju and Abhijat took the idea from Chetan’s book. The starting point is Five Point Someone, but after that the script has changed entirely,” he said. Read more….

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“3 Idiots would set the record for the biggest opening of this year,” added Ashish Saksena, COO, BIG Cinemas. Till date, Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone starrer Love Aaj Kal topped the chart with net collections of Rs 28 crore on first three days, followed by Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, featuring Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor and Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor’s Kambakkht Ishq, both at around Rs 23-24 crore.

Across multiplexes, the movie has witnessed over 95 per cent occupancies. “The film has lived up to expectations. We are hoping the extended holiday on Monday will add to 3 Idiots’ festivity,” confirmed Alok Tandon, CEO, INOX Leisure. Read more…

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Rajkumar Hirani is the best filmmaker Hindi cinema has produced in a long, long time. It’s not that there aren’t other mavericks, geniuses, and talented storytellers who give us some fabulous movies from time to time. But Hirani has, one film after the other, proved his mettle as a writer/director who does not believe in giving you entertainment the easy way — he ensures that you take back home a few lessons about life, too.

Three Idiots has one of the most relevant issues of Indian society at its core, a heartwarming story woven around it and a narrative that takes you through the film effortlessly, leaving you happy, moved, and thoughtful in the end. Yes, the film has certain hard-to-digest moments — like engineering students helping a woman to deliver a child in the campus with the help of some ‘skills’ — but if the oft misused term ‘cinematic liberty’ has ever been put to apt use, it is here.

Ranchhoddas Chhanchad aka Rancho (Khan), Farhan Qureshi (Madhavan), and Raju Rastogi (Joshi) have got admission in ICE, the most prestigious engineering college in India. “You’ll have to beat your competitor every step of the way if you want to be successful in life,” dean Viru Sahastrabudhhe aka Virus (Irani) tells students on their first day in college.

While the others just follow orders, Rancho defies rules. He raises questions in class his teachers can’t answer, refuses to complete assignments unless he really enjoys them, and infuriates the dean, who is a stickler for perfection. “You have the best college in the country, yet none of your students has ever invented anything of note,” Rancho tells the dean straight-faced, enraging him further. Read more….