College is the final phase where a
student must undergo on a series of training of their desired profession on how
to deal with it in the real life through studying. A campus university is like
a barracks, housing thousands of fresh meats ready to be trained and come out as
a soldier after all the things they are going through. College is really easy, they
said. I do not know why, but for me, college is really damn hard. Now, there is
this Bollywood movie about three friends in their college life inside an
Engineering College. This movie tackles how college life hard I and how it
affects the students. A movie about pursuing your dream, and marrying your
passion. The movie’s title is 3 Idiots.
3 Idiots focused on three major
characters, hence the title. They are friends, and they have a really great
bond. Their names are Farhan Qureshi, Raju Rastogi, and Ranchoddas Chanchad.
Now, I am going to make a reflection in each of them. I will start with Mr.
Raju Rastogi.
Raju Rastogi
The character Raju Rastogi was
portrayed by the Indian film actor Sharman Joshi. According to Wikipedia,
Sharman Joshi is not only an Indian film actor, but also a theatre actor. He
made his film debut on 1999 art film called the Godmother. He did a lot of
movies in his career, but what makes people remember and admire him was when he
played one of the major characters of the movie 3 Idiots, Raju Rastogi.
Raju
Rastogi was a kind of different from his friends. He came from a very poor
family. His father was a former postmaster and now a paralyzed man. His sister
was an unwed woman, since the cannot afford to offer a dowry. Why? Yep. You
guessed it. It was because that they were so very poor. His mother was a
retired teacher and loves to complain about their status. Not the way that
you’re thinking. His mother was complaining about the prices that are going
high and how hard it was for her to cater the family needs with little to no
money. His mother cries everytime she thinks of how hard to live life when you
are poor. His mother wants to vent out all of her feelings, but she had no one
to talk to. That is why she poured it all out on Farhan and Rancho. Which lead
Raju walking out cause of the shame he felt. I know that we can all understand
how Raju’s mother was feeling. I bet that all of our moms our parents know how
it feels to be in Raju’s mother’s situation. His mother was not overreacting.
His mother was telling the truth, telling how hard life can be. We all can
relate to Raju’s life. Yes, we can. Especially to those who are impecunious.
There are a lot of similar cases that is happening true to life. There are huge
numbers of mothers who are then only one who is keeping the family alive by
just depending on a little income. And to make it even more harder, those
mothers have to divide such little amount of money for some expenses, just like
medicine. Just like in the movie. Raju’s father was paralyzed, and his mother
is the only one who is keeping them alive by just depending on her pension. It
was also stated in the movie that his family income for a month was 2500. Way
below than Rancho and Farnhan’s family income. And by that, Raju’s mother needs
to divide it for the food for the medicine of Raju’s father. I would take my
mother as an example to relate on Raju’s mother’s situation. My mom is postal
clerk of the Philippine Post Corporation. Before she got there, she was an
employee of the DPWH or the Department of Public Works and Highways. And my
father was a Taxi driver before. They were doing fine at that time. They were
both working, they share for the expenses. But, there came a time when my
father had to quit driving taxi. So, my mom was the only one left to have a
job. She worked by herself just to sustain our family needs. She wakes up in
the morning, then she does the laundry and iron some clothes. Then will cook
breakfast fast for, and after that, she’ll rush herself to the office to work
8hrs a day as a postal clerk. She was doing this for almost 20 years. For
almost 20 years, it was my mom who sustain us because she is the only one who
is making money. Whenever I have or should I say “we” (because we are three
siblings, all boys) have a project. We would approach mom and ask some money
for it. Then, as a loving mother, she would hand us money for us to be able to
do our project. And if she does not have any money, she would do anything and
everything just to seek a solution on how to provide us. She had been reaching
one person to another person seeking help. She has been doing this for almost
20 years, and it makes me sad to think about it. That is why Raju and I are
quite the same.
Raju was the only one in their
family who was capable of ending their poverty. His parents, especially his
mother put the weight of the world on Raju’s shoulder. Raju carried the burden
on his own. I am very sure that all of us can relate to him. We all can relate
to Raju Rastogi, unless you were born rich and does not care of what the future
would bring. As what the default mindset shows, our parents are working
themselves to death, so that we could graduate, and have a job, and to repay
them. But in reality, what happens is that, when we finally have a job, we will
work to death just to keep ourselves alive, and only to find out that it is
very hard to live by just having a normal job. So, the thought of Raju ending
their poverty had a very big effect on him. It is a responsibility that anyone
of us are also tasked with. Even I, myself was being expected by my family to
end our poverty. They are hoping that I would finish studying and graduate, so
that my mother will not have to suffer anymore from loans and utangs from the
people she knew. For me, I see it as a necessary thing to do, because as what I
have mentioned. It is always my mom who does everything to sustain us. I can
see her suffering just for us. So, it is a mandatory thing for me to do repay
her, my parents when I graduate. I will end our poverty and put them into a
kind of situation, where the only thing that they will do is to relax. I know
that it is a very hard thing to do. I always fear that I will not be able to
grant it, due to the harsh reality of being a college student. And, I can bet
that Raju also felt the same way as I did.
Raju Rastogi was a very kind
person. He always wanted to help his family. He cares for his sister, an unwed
woman. He wants her sister to become a married woman. He also does not like
other people making jokes on his mother and father. Raju, along with Farhan was
a consistent student when it comes on being last on the list each exam. The
both of them always find their selves on the last. So, that makes them to be
placed on the far corner every class picture they had. He was also a very
religious person and loves to believe in beliefs. He had a lot of lucky rings
on his fingers. He always light up insence sticks and pray and give presents
for the Gods just to pass his exams. At this point, Rancho said that it was no
longer a prayer. It was begging. It was a bargaining. Trying to bribe the Gods
just to pass you. Of course, we all know that we have been in to this stage
before. We tend to pray everytime there will be an exam or a quiz. We always
ask God to pass us, and in return, we will do things for God. Such as, we will
change. We will help others. We will give more offerings. We become beggars and
bribers at the same time. One night when the three of them were drinking,
Rancho gave them an advice to marry your passion, and success will follow. Raju
asked Rancho why he keeps on failing even if he loves engineering and it is his
passion. Rancho simply answered “it is because you fear the future.” Meaning
that Raju was carrying the burden inside of him, and by burden, I mean his task
on ending their poverty and he was overthinking too much about its outcome. He
was carrying it all the time and feared that he might fail. It affected him so
much in a way that he was so scared that is why he cannot focused on studying
the lessons. And that is also the reason
why Raju prayed a lot. No. Begged a lot for the Gods to pass him. He was
letting the deities to decide for his fate, instead of getting hi butt to work
and start studying really hard. For me, Rancho has point right there. There are
people who are getting carried by their thoughts, and by the expectations of
other people making them disoriented from their main goal. And on the praying
stuff. I find really absurd to pray for the Gods just to pass you. I mean, as
an atheist, you are just technically talking to no one, but yourself. Instead
of wasting your time on talking to yourself, begging to yourself, why not use
it to study? (NOTE: No offense to those theist people here. I had no intentions
of offending you.)
As a friend of the person some the
professors found annoying, Raju got into trouble many times because of Rancho.
Well, who could blame him? I mean, Rancho was a fun and intelligent. People who
have shallow mind can’t understand him. The first time he got in trouble
because of Rancho was when their names were used by Rancho to teach Viru how to
teach. Rancho was challenged by Viru to each engineering in front of the class.
Rancho grabbed a book and wrote “Farhanitrate” and “Prerajulization” on the
board and asked everyone to find its definitions within 30 seconds. But, later
to be found that those were only a made up word using Farhan and Raju’s names.
Viru saw Rancho as a potential threat to Farhan and Raju’s studies that is why
Viru sent a letter to Farhan and Raju’s parents. Second, is when they crashed
at a wedding party to have a free food, only to find out that it was Viru’s
daughter’s wedding reception. They were counseled by Viru later on. The most
intense moment that Raju got into trouble was when he got rusticated. Well, it
was not Rancho’s fault at this time. As I mentioned earlier that the three were
drinking. Farhan and Raju challenged Rancho to propose to Pia (Viru’s youngest
daughter). So, they snuck into Viru’s house. While Rancho, Pia and Pia’s sister
was having a conversation, Raju jumped, and it alerted the sleeping Viru. Later
that, the drunk Farhan and Raju, yelled and peed on Viru’s mailbox, which woke
Viru up. Rancho, Farhan, and Raju managed to run outside, but when Viru came
out the door, and he spot the flashlight on them while running. It was going to
be fine, not until Raju came back to give Viru a final goofy face. But that was
a bad idea. The flashlight shone on Raju’s face, as Viru confirmed that it was
him. So, let us cut to the chase. Raju was summoned on the office of Viru. Viru
as Raju to type for him, and Raju gladly accepted. But, things are starting to
get bad when Viru asked Raju to type these following words: “Dear Sir, it is my painfully duty to inform
you that your son, Mr. Raju Rastogi is rusticated from the Imperial College of
Engineering.” Raju begged and
pleaded to Viru. Telling him that it would kill his father upon reading. Viru’s
decision was irrevocable, but he would consider to spare Raju if Raju is
willing to type Rancho’s name instead of his. Raju was totally fell into a
great dilemma as he saw images of his family and Rancho. He cannot make up his
mind and he did not take the pressure well, and decided to commit suicide by
jumping out from the third floor. Raju made a mistake and he admitted it. But
he cannot dare of typing the letter since it will be the end of his hope, and
he cannot also risk of typing Rancho’s name since he knew that it was his
fault. But, what I loved about what happened is that Raju gained a new
attitude. He became a humble person. He was very calm, polite and humble at the
interview where he eventually got hired. It took him a lot of broken bones and
months of recovery to gain that new attitude.
Raju is
the character that most of the students can relate. It is good to see that
fearing your future and begging for a miracle won’t do you any good. It is much
better to stand up and work your butt out.
Farhan Qureshi
The
next character I’m going to discuss about is Farhan Qureshi. Farhan Qureshi was
portrayed by the Indian film actor, R. Madhavan. R. Madhavan is also a TV Host.
He received two Filmfare Awards, an award that is given by the Tamil Nadu State
Film awards. Just like his film buddies, he also appeared on numerous film, and
his participation on the movie 3 Idiots makes his acting career even more good.
Farhan
Qureshi is one of the three major characters of the movie 3 Idiots along with
Raju Rastogi and Ranchoddas Chanchad. Farhan is the narrator throughout the
whole story, the whole film. Farhan is the type of character that every college
student would relate to. And if not every college student, then a huge number
of it. I am not even fibbing about it. In fact, I have met and known a lot of
people who has the same story as Farhan. Okay. Farhan was the first one to be
introduced to the audience. He was about to fly to another country, but then he
received a phone call which caught his attention and made changed his mind.
Upon the taking off of the plane, he faked a heart attack scenario in order for
the plane to land. From what we can see, it seems that the information that was
conveyed that phone call seems to be important. He contacted Farhan and told
about Chatur have found Rancho. Both of them rushed to the Imperial College of
Engineering’s tanker to meet up with Chatur. The three of them had a conversation,
Chatur bragged about his success, and telling how to locate Rancho. Then the
movie proceeds with Farhan narrating the movie. Farhan gave us a flashback.
From the day he was born, his destiny was already determined, fixed and sealed
by his parents. Farhan’s life was predestined and there was nothing he can do
about it. Now, that was what I am trying to tell you. Many people in this world
had their fate predetermined by their parents even if they were not born yet.
We knew that this kind of thing was happening ever since. I can bet that even
in the ancient times, predetermination of one’s fate is very common. Just like
the rulers before. There are cases that the rulers before would have their
offspring’s destiny already determined by shaman or a priest or a prophet they
appointed. If it is a guy, it is either going to be a warrior or next ruler.
And if it is a girl, it is either going to be a helper or something. I’m not
discriminating women here, I am just telling you how the past treated the women
kind before. Predetermined fate or predetermined destiny is also present in
political dynasties where the children will be molded into a political-oriented
person just to keep their legacy going on. We cannot deny that this kind of
thing is still up to date. I even have a friend that her mother wanted her to
study Business Ad from the beginning, because her mother wanted her to continue
running the business in the future. As for Farhan, from the moment that he was
born, he was going to be an engineer as spoken by mouth of his parents. The
thing that bothers me about that is, it kills the concept of free will. As what
many religious people say, the bible said that we were gifted free will when we
were born. It was a gift from God to us. And if people truly believed in God,
then why would they kill their children’s free will? Well, let us leave that
bible part behind. I understand why parents do that. They have a lot of reason,
but the common reason for that is that, that they want their children to have a
better future, that is what they think that is going to be good for their
children. Just like in the movie where Farhan’s father told Rancho that, they
have sacrificed their own comfort just for the betterment of Farhan’s future.
The intention was good, but it failed to see the other side. They did not even
bother to ask Farhan what is his heart’s desire.
He is
the type of guy who cannot stand up for his own decision. He is not able to
find a way to fight what he really loves. I know that there are a lot of kids
and teenagers who are in the same shoes of Farhan. A lot of them cannot stand
for their own decisions because they are afraid. They fear something. They fear
that they will be turned down or reject by their parents. And if Farhan’s
reason was like that, then it would be his weakness. His weakness is that he
cannot fight for his own idea, but there is no weakness if there is no
strength. While Farhan has his weakness, he has this kind of strength that
amuses me. His strength was to keep his attitude remain intact and Farhan is
the type of guy that never want to disappoint his parents that is why he obeys
them regardless if it is against his will. He accepted his parent’s decision
and went to Imperial College of Engineering to study there. That is his strength.
That is the case of those children who are very unfortunate enough to have
their fates already sealed. They cannot do anything about it, but to obey and
go with it. There are some who grew up thinking that it was a normal thing, or
they felt normal having their fates predetermined. Maybe the reason of it is
that they were raised very well, and if you think about it, they are
brainwashed very well.
There
are not enough of highlights for Farhan in the movie. Yes, he was the narrator
and he was on every scene, but his character did not have another striking
moment aside on where he confronted his parents and convinced them. But that is
too early to talk about. Professors of the Imperial College of Engineering was
finds Rancho as a nuisance and some kind of hated him. That is why any person
close to Rancho has the potential to have his or her life ruined. Farhan got in
to trouble because of Rancho for the first time when Rancho used Farhan’s name
along with Raju’s when Rancho taught Viru how to teach. Viru saw it as a
potential threat to Raju and Farhan’s career that is Viru had sent a letter to
their parents regarding about their friendship. Stating that Rancho could be a
factor that can ruin Raju and Farhan’s study. After Farhan’s parents received
the letter that Viru sent to them, Farhan’s father invited them to give them a
bit of scolding. Aftey the three have arrived, Farhan’s father led them into
Farhan’s room. He explained to Rancho in a loud and aggressive manner that they
had an air conditioning device built in Farhan’s rooms so just Farhan could
study very well and very comfortable. His father begs Rancho not to ruin
Farhan’s life, and by that, I think Farhan’s meant to have Rancho away from
Farhan. But then, Rancho noticed some photos on Farhan’s wall, and he asked
about it. There, we discovered that Farhan’s original passion was to take
wildlife photography, which his father refers to it as a waste of time. At this
moment, we can tell how painful it was for Farhan to know that his passion, his
desirem his true love is just a waste of time for his father. Now, we have tons
of similar cases about this. This case is quite common artists. Quite common to
those who are taking an art course or a course that is related to art. A lot of
parents will disagree if their children would like to pursue an art course.
Why? It is because that there is no job that waiting for those who will
graduate on that course. In reality, there are no jobs for artists. Well, there
are some jobs for these courses like graphic artists, or multimedia artists and
many to mention. But those artists who paints on canvas. There no jobs for
them, unless they will establishment a shop on their own. That is why parents
would say that some things are worthless and waste of time. That is the truth,
and it is quite painful for some artists. But the parents failed to see the
side of their children. If they pursue art, they will end up having nothing,
but they gained a lot of knowledge. And most of all, their children was happy.
Their hearts were singing in joy. Just like what Farhan said to his father. He
said that if he will be a photographer, he will have a small house and a small
car, but he will be happy for the rest of his life. And another that the
parents failed to see is that artists are extremely creative. Artists won’t be
having a bad time looking for money cause they know how to generate one. They
will just only use their creativity. The money will come slow, yes it will.
But, the point is that artists knows how to generate money from nothing.
As what
I have said, parents only did this because they want their children to have a
better future. But there are some parents who do it just for pride. Who only do
it for the name. This is common in Asian countries especially in Japan and
China. I have known this a long time ago, and I do not if this is still a trend
for the Asian parents. The internet loves to make fun of Asians. But when they
say Asian, they meant those Asians with squinty yes, due to stereotyping. The
love to make fun of us by stereotyping and racism. They managed to popularized
that Asians are very good at math. They always assume that Asians are freaking
geniuses. Why? Stereotyping, again. And about the Asian parents thingy, they
always illustrate that Asian parents shoves a lot of home works to their
children, hoping that their children will become a lawyer, a doctor, and
engineer in a matter of seconds. Well, I really I find this joke funny because,
it is quite true somehow. Asian parents are very strict to their children. They
want they children to study a lot as long as they can in hopes that their
children will become a professional someday, leaving a title on the clan name
making them proud you. And the funny thing is that if you fail, you will be
forgotten as a family member. It is very hard to live on a life like that. I
would rather die than doing things I do not love. Just kidding.
And the
last thing, the most important thing
that made me salute Farhan’s character is when he finally had the guts
to convince his father. Farhan was supposed to head to the interview at the
Imperial College of Engineering, but Raju told him to go home and convince his
farther. But Farhan was hesitating, he is afraid that his father won’t let him.
But , he changed his mind and went home after Rancho and Pia gave Farhan a
letter from Andre Istvan. Farhan’s favorite wildlife photographer. Farhan
originally wrote a letter to Andre five years ago, but he did not send it to
Andre, fearing that his father will be furious at him. Now Rancho sent I and
Andre was impressed by Farhan’s shots and offered Farhan to become his
assistant and have a training with salary at the same time.
At
Farhan’s house. Farhan’s father was preparing a laptop. It was their gift to
Farhan. Farhan showed up and talked to his father. He told him about how he
loved photography, but still, his father did not agree to him and was mad at
him. His father told him that people would call him a loser for quitting on his
final year of college and pursue photography. His father also told him that one
day his classmates will have nice cars and nice cars, and he will regret
afterwards. But Farhan pleaded, but his father’s heart was as hard as a stone.
His father sarcastically and angrily said that is Farhan going to threat them
with suicide like what Raju did. Farhan opened his wallet. There a picture of
his mother and father. He kneeled in front of his father telling that it was
Rancho who his despised of was the one who put the picture in wallet. And
Rancho told him that if ever a suicide thought will ever cross his mind, he
will just have to look at the picture and think about how you smiles of his
parents’ will be gone they will see Farhan’s dead body. Everyone was crying.
Farhan, his mother, his father. He pleaded for the last time. His father stood
up and went for the laptop. Then his father asked if a laptop can be exchange
with a professional camera. There, at that moment, Farhan’s father melted. He
finally realized his son’s passion. He finally agreed to his son.
That
scene is one of the scene that made me jerked a tear on my eye. I imagine how
hard it was for Farhan to build up the guts to face his father and convince
him. I imagined that must be so hard to do in real life. I was hoping that a
lot of people who are like Farhan will watch this film and make Farhan as their
inspiration, and stand up for their own decisions.
Ranchoddas Shamaldas
Chanchad/Phunsukh Wangdu
Now, this is the last character I am going to
tackle. This character is very different than the two about, Farhan Qureshi and
Raju Rastogi. Why? Well find it out later and learn his secret as we go
exploring Aamir Khan’s witty, genius, and lovable character, Ranchoddas
Shamaldas Chanchad.
Ranchoddas
Shamaldas Chachad was played by the award-winning Indian film actor, directorm
producer and TV presenter, Aamir Khan. Aamir Khan is one of the most
well-known, popular, influential and respected actors in India. He did a lot of
Hindi movies which made him a huge star. He is also one of India’s in demand
actors. He starred on award-winning such as Lagaan, a film set on the Victorian
Era in India where Indian habitants were oppressed by high taxes. He also
starred in the movie, Taare Zameen Par or also known as Like Stars on Earth, or
some call it Every Child is Special. This is a wonderful movie. The story
revolves around a kid named Eshan being guided by Aamir Khan’s character to
deal with dyslexia. Another movie which he starred was the film, Ghajini. The
film is about a rich man who was beaten nearly to death and became an
unstoppable revenge-machine to seek vengeance for the death of his loved one.
And later that, in 2009 he starred on a movie which became a popular movie that
tackles about the life of being in college and the tackles the hardships and
even gives us a philosophical thought on living your college days. And yes,
this movie is the 3 Idiots. Now, let us tackle hi character.
Ranchoddas
Shamaldas Chanchad is the most brilliant character you have ever seen. He is so
witty, genius, funny and epic. But we do not know much about him in the
beginning of the movie. As we saw in the movie, it was Farhan Qureshi who
received a phone call and he seem to be thrilled like he had heard a very
crucial news which made him to fake a heart attack situation to land the plane
he was boarding. Farhan then contacted Raju Rastogi and there, Farhan mentioned
for the name “Rancho” for the first time. He said that Chatur has an
information about Rancho’s whereabouts. Raju was rushing to get up and even
forgot his pants, and hopped in the car with Farhan to go to the Imperial
College of Engineering. It seems that this guy Rancho is a very important
character. So important that makes the two characters rushing out of
excitement. When they arrived at the Imperial College of Engineering, they went
to the tanker only to find Chatur, now a successful millionaire. Chatur
reminded them about the deal he made years ago. When Chatur was asked where
Rancho is, he simply told that Rancho will never be able to come cause Rancho
was a loser. Now, this gives the audience the question who the heck Rancho is.
Why is he so important to these characters? It was on the latter where Chatur
tild him the he knows where Rancho could be. They began to travel via Chatur’s
car to go to the location of Rancho. Then Farhan started narrating about his
life, and about his first day in college. In that part, we still do not know a
single thing about this mystery character, Rancho. Not until the night of their
first day as a college student.
It was
a ritual in the Imperial College of Engineering where the freshmen must pay
respects to their seniors. The freshmen must wear nothing but their underpants.
They are tasked to do stupid things, they are being made fun by the seniors.
They look like a stupid robot obeying what the seniors’ requests are just to
please the seniors. Everyone was being made fun until one student suddenly
came. He arrived the Imperial College of Engineering at night only to see a lot
of freshmen on their underpants. One senior went to him and told him about the
ritual. They make him pull down his pants, but that guy was not listening. He
did not obey the senior. The senior was so furious about him for disobeying. He
did everything to make that guy pull down his pants and even threatened him
that he will pee on his door every day. But that guy ran into his room and
locked the door. The senior stood in front of the door and kept on shouting.
The senior now will pee on the door if that guy will not come out after ten
counts. The senior then starts to count in an ascending order. Inside, the guy
was thinking of something. He had only ten seconds to think of a great come up.
He saw the electrical wiring of the bulb connected to switch on the wall. He
removed the bulb and ripped the wiring off the wall. He stripped the end of the
wire, exposing the conductive part. He then wrapped it around a metal spoon and
he then wrapped the metal spoon on a meter stick. By the time senior’s count
was near to ten. He placed the spoon in the gap between the door and the floor.
He then turned on the switch. The senior peed on the door but he was so very
unfortunate. The senior had his genitalia electrocuted by that guy’s improvised
thing. It is because that urine is a great conductor of electricity and the
metal spoon was charged. The guys successfully ditched the senior. And of
course, being the unique and the intelligent one, we already knew that this is
the guy that the other characters referring to as Rancho.
Rancho
is a very smart and genius man. He was like the modern Albert Einstein with a
mind of a coot. His brains are full of philosophical and logical questions. He
sees the world in such a very different way. He showed his intelligent side
when he questioned the director, Mr. Viru Sahastrabudhhe, regarding the astronaut’s
pen. He asked the director why did the astronauts spent millions of dollars
creating a pen that will work in zero gravity, instead of using a pencil. Viru
was shocked and had his tongue caught by a cat. He was not able to answer it.
Rancho just ditched the most-feared human of ICE. Rancho was right. A normal
pen would not work in space since there is no gravity there. The ink is a
liquid substance which would only float on. That is why the space pen was
invented. But using a pencil instead of inventing a space pen could save them
millions of dollars. A lot of people who thinks like Rancho. Those people are
very curious about complex facts that has a practical alternative. Unlike any
students which pursue a degree so they could have a nice job, a credit card, a
nice car, and a lot of girls, Rancho studies just for fun. I am not saying in a
negative manner. Rancho sees learning a very fun way. He study not because he
wants to have a nice car, or to have a lot of girls when he graduate. He study
because he wants to learn. Rancho got kicked out of the room by his professor
when he tried to simplify the definition of Machine. Now, professors or people
would think that Rancho is dumb and stupid. But in reality, Rancho is smart,
and his Intellectual Quotient is way beyond the IQ of the others. That is why
others can’t understand him. But Rancho has passion for studying. He loves to
learn, that is why whenever he gets kicked out of the room, he will just simply
slip into another class. Regardless of what level of class it is. But, aside of
being smart and genius, Rancho was also a coot. Of course, all men are coots.
Rancho has the humor. He joke around as if life is too easy for him, and there
are times that his combined wits and humor got them into trouble. He even
combined his humor with his teachings. Like when he was brought by Viru in
front of the class and demand to teach engineering. He wrote two words,
“Farhanitrate” and “Prerajulization”. He tasked them including Viru to search
for its definition under thirty seconds. After thirty seconds have passed, no
one got the answer. Why? Because, there are such words as “Farhanitrate” and
“Prerajulization”. He made up those words using the names of his friends,
Farhan and Raju. Viru called it nonsense and ask him if it is how Rancho
teaches engineering. Rancho simply replied that it was not his job to teach
engineering, but it was a job for the teachers. He only showed them how a
professor should teach. He pointed out that this is college, not a pressure
cooker. He also distinguished the difference between “well-tamed” and
“well-educated” by using a circus lion as an analogy to a college student.
Rancho’s words were such a treasure. He sees how college life works. Most of us
are pressured because of the tasks that were given to us. Piles and piles of
tasks are on your list of things do, and you are pressured how you will sort
out these tasks. You fear that you might fail. Rancho used the analogy of a
circus lion being well-tamed and relate it to college students. A well-tamed
lion will sit upon the command of the circus master whenever the circus master
cracks the whip. The people will be amused, praising the lion for its ability
to obey the command and the circus master for its courage to teach the lion how
to sit. But, if you think of it, the circus master did not actually taught the
lion how to sit in the sense the he educated the lion. He cracks his whip just
to get the lion to what he what he wants. In that case, the lion was not
educated, the lion was afraid of the whip, and that is why it chose to sit
down. And I call that taming.
Rancho
is an eye-opener he shares how he sees the things in his eyes. He is a very
fine man. It seems that he is the kind of guy who is standing on a pathway to
success with no obstacles along the way. He is fight for what he believes in.
It is like his advocacy is to simplify all of the things. For example, if you
are hungry, then eat. If you love someone, tell them. Just like what he said to
Manmohan or also known as MM or Millimeter. Rancho asked if MM have a class. MM
replied that he does not have any class cause he is an out of school youth
because he does not have money. Rancho said that studying does not need money,
it only needs uniform. He gave MM a bunch of money for him to buy a uniform and
he advised MM to slip in to classes. If he gets caught, then he will just
simply slip in to another school and buy another uniform. Another example is
when the three of them were drinking one night, before they broke in to Viru’s
house. While they are drinking, it came to Farhan that Rancho is so very calm
and confident because he is so smart. He also tell how they rot at the corner
of every class photograph while Rancho was sitting beside the Director. Rancho
replied and told them why he was always first. The reason is that Rancho loves
machines. He loves engineering. It was his passion. He then grabbed Farhan’s
bag and poured it all out on the floor. Rancho showed that Farhan made five
years ago which was supposed to be sent to Andre Istvan, Farhan’s favorite
wildlife photographer. But, was not able to send it cause Farhan was too afraid
of his father. He told Farhan that he
should quit engineering and marry wildlife photography, since it was Farhan’s desired
passion. Raju then bowed and sarcastically called Rancho as “Your Holiness Guru
Ranchoddas”, and asked him why things are not working the same way things
worked for Rancho even though he loves engineering and it was also his passion.
Rancho simply answered Raju and gave him an explanation. Raju feared the
future. He always leave things to God, and he jokingly said that Raju has more
rings than fingers. And by that, his fear towards the future affects his
studies in the present. I really salute Rancho here, because even if they were
drinking and they were intoxicated, Rancho can still see the things clearly. It
is very rare to meet someone in real life who is like Rancho. It seems that his
character is too perfect and is not possible in real life. That is why, of all
the characters in the movie, I chose Rancho as my favorite character. Another
that made me like Rancho is when it was revealed that his real name was not
Rancho, neither the identity as Ranchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad was his. It was
revealed that he was only the son of the gardener of the Chanchad family. He
was called as “Chotte” at that time. He loves to study and learn, therefore he
slips into the real Ranchoddas Chanchad’s school and study. The real Rancho
would leave the work to Chotte, and Chotte would gladly accept them, since it
was his passion. Until one day they got caught. The real Rancho’s father told
Chotte to continue and finish what he was doing since it was started. Chotte
had to carry the name of Ranchoddas until he gets a degree. Then, Chotte
revealed near the end that his real name is Phunsuhk Wangdu, a multimillionaire
scientist with 400 patents around the world. Can you imagine how crazy was
that? Try to imagine it. Phunsuhk Wangdu stripped his name and carried an
identity that was not his for many many years. He was so courageous and
committed to do that. And the epic part is when he still became a successful
person after all what happened.
