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Rajkumar Hirani's Aamir Khan-starrer 2009 movie 3 Idiots had emerged arsenic the highest-grossing Indian movie of its time. (Credit: Express archives, Amit Chakravarty)
Although the movie opened to thunderous occurrence and became the highest-grossing Indian movie of its time, manager Rajkumar Hirani’s 3 Idiots besides received its stock of flak. One of the large criticisms was directed astatine a peculiar country acceptable successful an impoverished household, which galore perceived arsenic mocking poverty. In fact, this contented was archetypal raised by 1 of pb histrion Aamir Khan’s assistants, who straight confronted Hirani astir it. His remarks not lone took the manager by daze but yet made him realise his oversight.
“After the movie was released, Aamir Khan’s squad besides watched it, including a lad (assistant) who works with him, named Sachin. Then, Sachin came to maine and said, ‘Sir, I liked the film, but I did not similar 1 thing. Aapne hum gareebo ka mazak udaya hai‘ (you person made amusive of america mediocre people),” Hirani recalled during a caller quality connected a podcast by the Game Changers YouTube channel. Sachin was referring to a country acceptable successful the location of Raju Rastogi (Sharman Joshi), which was presented successful monochrome with an other absorption connected their mediocre surviving conditions. The country besides included elements that ‘humorously’ suggested that mediocre radical were unhygienic, further fueling the criticism.
Hirani shared, “While filming, it did not onslaught me; it was lone erstwhile helium pointed it retired that I realised it. I was really talking astir cinema and that determination was a clip erstwhile black-and-white films often showed an sick father, an unmarried sister and a parent struggling for survival. So, we wrote that country keeping those visuals successful mind. It did not onslaught maine backmost past that the country could beryllium interpreted otherwise and mightiness impact someone.”
He continued, “It made maine recognize that 1 should beryllium a small much careful. Someone erstwhile said, ‘Comedy comes from the misfortunes of others.’ When we make drama successful cinema, we are often going to extremity up making amusive of someone. So, if we proceed making films and comedies, we person to beryllium a small conscious astir it. But astatine the aforesaid time, radical should instrumentality it successful a sporting spirit.”
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