Unbeknownst to them, it is the wedding of one of Virus' daughters, Mona. After Farhan's and Raju's parents confront Rancho, the hungry trio gatecrashes a wedding for dinner. Rancho tries to fix Joy's project, but finds out he is too late after Joy commits suicide. One day, when Joy Lobo, a student with a passion for engineering similar to Rancho's, is denied graduation by Virus on grounds of failure to submit his project. Virus, whose Draconian teaching philosophy contrast with Rancho's easygoing one. Rancho, Raju and Farhan meet their college director Dr. He befriends Raju, whose family hopes he will bring them out of poverty, and Rancho, a carefree student who loves learning. Over a flashback ten years prior, it is shown that Farhan has come to stay at ICE as his father forced him to pursue engineering. After talking about his bet with Rancho about who can become more successful, Chatur reveals that Rancho is in Shimla and the three begin their journey. Farhan meets up with another friend, Raju Rastogi, and rushes to the Imperial College of Engineering (ICE) to meet Chatur. Wildlife photographer Farhan Qureshi receives a phone call from his collegemate Chatur Ramalingam, claiming he knows where Farhan's long-lost friend Ranchhoddas "Rancho" Shamaldas Chanchad is.
A Mexican remake, 3 Idiotas, was also released in 2017. The film was remade in Tamil as Nanban (2012), which also received critical praise and commercial success. Overseas, it won the Grand Prize at Japan's Videoyasan Awards while it was nominated for Best Outstanding Foreign Language Film at the Japan Academy Awards and Best Foreign Film at China's Beijing International Film Festival. ģ Idiots won six Filmfare Awards including Best Film and three National Film Awards including Best Popular Film. The film also had a social impact on attitudes to education in India, as well as education in other Asian countries such as China. Eventually, it became one of the few Indian films at the time to become successful in East Asian markets such as China and Japan, eventually bringing its worldwide gross to ₹3.92 billion ($90 million) - it was the highest-grossing Indian film ever at the time and the highest grossing Indian film of the 2000s. The film received critical acclaim and huge commercial success upon its release on 25 December 2009 it was also the highest-grossing film in its opening weekend in India, had the highest opening day collections for an Indian film up until that point and also held the record for the highest net collections in the first week for a Hindi. Produced by Chopra under the banner Vinod Chopra Films, 3 Idiots incorporated real Indian inventions created by Remya Jose, Mohammad Idris, Jahangir Painter and Sonam Wangchuk, the lattermost of whom also inspired Khan's character. Narrated through parallel dramas, one in the present and the other ten years in the past, the story follows the friendship of three students at an Indian engineering college and is a satire about the social pressures under an Indian education system. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi in the titular role, marking their reunion 3 years after the 2006 film Rang De Basanti, while Kareena Kapoor, Boman Irani and Omi Vaidya star in the pivotal lead roles. Adapted loosely from Chetan Bhagat's novel Five Point Someone, the film stars Aamir Khan, R. 3 Idiots is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Rajkumar Hirani and co-written by Abhijat Joshi, with producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra acting as a screenplay associate.