{"id":27537,"date":"2022-01-03T16:33:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T15:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27537"},"modified":"2022-01-03T19:45:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T18:45:10","slug":"a-review-of-the-successful-indian-movie-3-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27537","title":{"rendered":"A review of the successful Indian movie &#8220;3 Idiots&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This Hindi-language film was released in India in 2009 but I only caught up with it on Netflix on a quiet New Year&#8217;s Day over a decade later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three eponymous characters are far from idiots: they are students at Delhi&#8217;s prestigious Imperial College of Engineering but they do have an unconventional approach to life and studying. The film takes the format of a search, ten years after graduation, by two of the titular characters, Farhan (played by Madhavan) and Raju (Sharman Joshi), to find the third, irrepressible Rancho (Aamir Khan). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director and co-writer Rajkumar Hirani has produced a wonderful adventure which is a drama, a comedy, and a romance with some inevitable singing, dancing and even farting. But be warned: it runs to just 10 minutes less than three hours.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Hindi-language film was released in India in 2009 but I only caught up with it on Netflix on a quiet New Year&#8217;s Day over a decade later. The three eponymous characters are far from idiots: they are students at Delhi&#8217;s prestigious Imperial College of Engineering but they do have an unconventional approach to life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27540,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27537\/revisions\/27540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}