So, about the movie.
The film is about three friends at the Imperial College of Engineering (ICE) in India - Raju, Rancho and Farhan. Rancho is the exceptional one who dares to challenge the boundaries and gets good grades - during the freshmen initiation ceremony, he uses a metal spoon on a wire to conduct electricity form the mains to shock a senior who threatened to urinate on his door (as Rancho didn't want to participate in the initiation, which involved pulling one's pants down and showning deference by stamping a sign on the freshmen's buttocks by the seniors), with painful effects for the senior, though I don't think it's scientifcally possible, but I wouldn't want to try. When the headmaster "Virus" gives a speak on being competitive, and says that 32 years ago his headmaster gave him an astronaut's pen and told him to give it to an exceptional student (implying that he hasn't found that student yet), Rancho questioned why the astronauts couldn't have simply used a pencil, leaving Virus dumbfounded (he later said that graphite splinters would prove very dangerous by floating around, and that Rancho wasn't always right... and gave Rancho the pen, albeit very grudgingly).
Rancho believes in learning the correct way, not simply to cram hard facts into one's brain and memorise definitions and spewing them ou, with many examples along the way. That is what makes the movie so inspiraional - I teared more than a few times. Add comedy, dance, music and the movie becomes something that you would not want to miss.
So anyway, back to Rancho. His favourite phrase when he's in trouble is "All Izz Well" - Saying that to give one the courage to face up to problems. I suppose i need this.
He also believes in learning what you love to, and makng it a career. Farhan is an excellent wildlife photographer and is only in ICE because of his father. Hence he doesn't do well in class. Later there is a touching moment when his father finally realises that he should let his son lead his own life when Farhan begs him to with all his sincerity.
Raju comes from a very poor family and has many fears on his mind - the fear to excel even though he likes engineering, because he is expected to become an engineer to provide his sister's dowry, to care for his paralysed father, his mother. And when Virus cruelly asks him to choose either him being expelled - "rusticated form college", as the movie said - or his friend Rancho, he chose to jump, resulting in him being paralysed just as his father recovered. Thankfully, he recovers, but then again, this illustrates the dilemma in choosing between self-preservation or sacrificing onseself for a friend, for family.
There was also a character who commited suicide, unable to withstand the pressures as Virus put him down completely and did not spare him a few more days to finish his helicopter project - a mini spy helicopter with four rotors, equipped with a webcam. Just as Rancho finishes the helicopter for him as a surprise, too late - he had hung himself, scrawling "I Quit" on the wall. An eternal goodbye to the pressure cooker environment that has ruined many before him. An unhealthy competitive atmosphere that reflects real life, a truism that shows the other side of the education system in many countries - India, South Korea, the US, Singapore, the UK.
After the graduation ceremony, after four years of school, Rancho graduates as the top student and vanishes without a trace (go read up/watch the movie yourself, not going to spoil too much), and the two "idiots" left behind, Farhan and Raju, search for him in vain till 10 years later, when they meet Rancho's self-professed arch-rival "Silencer" (due to his silent, incredibly potent farts) who has gotten by on rote memorisation and has bet wth Rancho to see who was more successful after ten years. After lots of dragging along (in a flashback sequence with Farhan narrating), they discover that Rancho has set up a school in a small village with dusty mountains all around and brillant blue waters to die for. A place that I would realy love to go to someday. The village has many, many inventions - a bicycle that drives a razor to shear sheep's wool via a dynamo, for instance. The village children study in a plce brimming over with Rancho's creations, and it turns out that Rancho has become a scientist, sought by many and world-renowned with over 200 patents under his belt (and the man whom Silencer wants to strike a deal with).
Isn't it very inspiring to see someone with this pure, simple love for engineering turn it into a lifelong profession and benefit the poor with it? I wish I could be like him too. But where do I start? I don't even know what profession I would liketo be in. The doors are open, but yet at the same time, they feel like they have already closed shut on me.
To make up for the mediocre thought process out into this blogpost I shall post two songs from the movie - Zoobi Doobi and All Is Well. Extremely hilarious and yet thought provoking at the same time, if you read hard enough into them. Watching the movie helps. All Is Well shows the extremely positive attitude of the three friends to bounce back when something assults them (in this case, no shower water).
The film is about three friends at the Imperial College of Engineering (ICE) in India - Raju, Rancho and Farhan. Rancho is the exceptional one who dares to challenge the boundaries and gets good grades - during the freshmen initiation ceremony, he uses a metal spoon on a wire to conduct electricity form the mains to shock a senior who threatened to urinate on his door (as Rancho didn't want to participate in the initiation, which involved pulling one's pants down and showning deference by stamping a sign on the freshmen's buttocks by the seniors), with painful effects for the senior, though I don't think it's scientifcally possible, but I wouldn't want to try. When the headmaster "Virus" gives a speak on being competitive, and says that 32 years ago his headmaster gave him an astronaut's pen and told him to give it to an exceptional student (implying that he hasn't found that student yet), Rancho questioned why the astronauts couldn't have simply used a pencil, leaving Virus dumbfounded (he later said that graphite splinters would prove very dangerous by floating around, and that Rancho wasn't always right... and gave Rancho the pen, albeit very grudgingly).
Rancho believes in learning the correct way, not simply to cram hard facts into one's brain and memorise definitions and spewing them ou, with many examples along the way. That is what makes the movie so inspiraional - I teared more than a few times. Add comedy, dance, music and the movie becomes something that you would not want to miss.
So anyway, back to Rancho. His favourite phrase when he's in trouble is "All Izz Well" - Saying that to give one the courage to face up to problems. I suppose i need this.
He also believes in learning what you love to, and makng it a career. Farhan is an excellent wildlife photographer and is only in ICE because of his father. Hence he doesn't do well in class. Later there is a touching moment when his father finally realises that he should let his son lead his own life when Farhan begs him to with all his sincerity.
Raju comes from a very poor family and has many fears on his mind - the fear to excel even though he likes engineering, because he is expected to become an engineer to provide his sister's dowry, to care for his paralysed father, his mother. And when Virus cruelly asks him to choose either him being expelled - "rusticated form college", as the movie said - or his friend Rancho, he chose to jump, resulting in him being paralysed just as his father recovered. Thankfully, he recovers, but then again, this illustrates the dilemma in choosing between self-preservation or sacrificing onseself for a friend, for family.
There was also a character who commited suicide, unable to withstand the pressures as Virus put him down completely and did not spare him a few more days to finish his helicopter project - a mini spy helicopter with four rotors, equipped with a webcam. Just as Rancho finishes the helicopter for him as a surprise, too late - he had hung himself, scrawling "I Quit" on the wall. An eternal goodbye to the pressure cooker environment that has ruined many before him. An unhealthy competitive atmosphere that reflects real life, a truism that shows the other side of the education system in many countries - India, South Korea, the US, Singapore, the UK.
After the graduation ceremony, after four years of school, Rancho graduates as the top student and vanishes without a trace (go read up/watch the movie yourself, not going to spoil too much), and the two "idiots" left behind, Farhan and Raju, search for him in vain till 10 years later, when they meet Rancho's self-professed arch-rival "Silencer" (due to his silent, incredibly potent farts) who has gotten by on rote memorisation and has bet wth Rancho to see who was more successful after ten years. After lots of dragging along (in a flashback sequence with Farhan narrating), they discover that Rancho has set up a school in a small village with dusty mountains all around and brillant blue waters to die for. A place that I would realy love to go to someday. The village has many, many inventions - a bicycle that drives a razor to shear sheep's wool via a dynamo, for instance. The village children study in a plce brimming over with Rancho's creations, and it turns out that Rancho has become a scientist, sought by many and world-renowned with over 200 patents under his belt (and the man whom Silencer wants to strike a deal with).
Isn't it very inspiring to see someone with this pure, simple love for engineering turn it into a lifelong profession and benefit the poor with it? I wish I could be like him too. But where do I start? I don't even know what profession I would liketo be in. The doors are open, but yet at the same time, they feel like they have already closed shut on me.
To make up for the mediocre thought process out into this blogpost I shall post two songs from the movie - Zoobi Doobi and All Is Well. Extremely hilarious and yet thought provoking at the same time, if you read hard enough into them. Watching the movie helps. All Is Well shows the extremely positive attitude of the three friends to bounce back when something assults them (in this case, no shower water).
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