Asian cinema is a space
which encounters many ideas, philosophies, cultures and religions. From here,
Asian cinema can evolves a world from its own ideas. There are many subjects
that we can discuss in aesthetics in Asian Cinema such as visual aesthetics,
mise-en-scene materials, music and sound, performance style, pace and etc.
Today, I would like to talk about the aesthetics in the film, “3 Idiots”.
3 Idiots is an Indian coming of age comedy drama
film co-written, edited and directed by Rajkumar Hirani and produced by Vidhu
Vinod Chopra in 2009. The screenplay was written by Abhijat Joshi. It was
inspired by the novel Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat. The film stars Aamir
Khan, Kareena Kapoor, R.Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Omi Vaidya, Parikshit Sahni
and Boman Irani. It was a 171 minutes film, it’s quite long compared to the
normal length of films.
The film is about the friendship of three best
friens, Farhan Qureshi, Raju Rastogi and Ranchoddas Chanchad. They study at the
prestigious Imperial College of Engineering (ICE). They also are roomates.
Farhan wants to be a photographer secretly, but studies engineering in fear of
his father. Raju chooses engineering so that he can support his family but he
got a poor grades. Rancho is a talented and eccentric inventor. They help and
try to be understanding to each other, have some quarrel sometimes, but all of
these will strengthen their relationship.
3 Idiots can be counted as a Bollywood film which is
the most representative form of “popular Indian cinema”. It is highly
influenced by Hinduism. One of the factors that classified this film as
Bollywood film is because this film use Hindi as its language. Mise-en-scene
also helps to enhance the visual aesthetics of the film. The colourful and
unique Indian traditional clothing shows the audience the culture of this race.
For example, Pia wears a traditional red saree and lehenga with many
accessories such as big bracelets, necklace, earrings, head accessory and nose
ring in her own wedding. In terms of colour, red at here counted as passion and
good things happened. Another example is in the scene of real Rancho’s father’s
funeral. Most of the people wear in white clothing. At this point, white
counted as sad, past and bad things happened.
Next, I would like to discuss the dance and music
elements found in this film. Indian film usually uses music and dance sequences
within the narrative structure. The director use musical to bring out the
feeling of the main cast in particular moment with a bunch of backup dancers at
behind. For example, Pia opens a photo album and starts to imagine she singing
“Zoobi Doobi” and dancing with Rancho together with a crowd of people. Another
example is when Raju, Farhan and Rancho dance in the toilet with others
engineering students.
This film shows Indian culture and social aspects.
The film points out the issue of Indian education system, the students are
asked to memorize the knowledge from books without learning any practical
experiences. For example, Chantur who can memorize the definition of the terms
can makes the lecturer happy whereas Rancho who cannot memorize the definition
but think creatively are thought to disrespect the lecturer. The film also
shows the issue of disparity between the rich and the poor. For example, the
real Rancho’s rich family and Raju’s poor family.
In conclusion, 3 Idiots not just entertain the audience
but also brings out some moral values to the people. I think that this is
really a recommended film to everyone especially the youngster.
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