I saw it today, long after everyone else. (Impusively went to it Everest near our apartment ; was passing by at 9:20 pm and saw that they had a show at 9:30pm! I and Siddhu have been planning to go together sometime and he was genuinely shocked that I ditched him. I'll have to make it up).
Too long and loosely edited. Maybe I've just seen too many good movies but I get impatient easily at the movies.
Definitely didn't live up to the hype and good reviews. But was quite nice.
Stuck too much to stereotypes with Chatur Ramalingam and Suhas. Would have been interesting to make Chatur in particular much more serious and accomplished (that's what successful Indians in the US tend to be like) rather than an easy-to-dislike clown.
Nicely made its points about the education system including using old legends (urban or otherwise) like the NASA pen. We should have had this movie made 20 years ago, and maybe it would have saved me :-(. Delivery scene was far too contrived.
Scene where Farhan convinces his father was genuinely moving.
Gorgeous Ladakh scene at end. We don't need no Switzerland!
Would have made the movie lot more cool if they'd situated it in IIT like in the book. Campus they used looked very nice.
Kareena was weak in places and looked overawed at the star cast she was competing with.
Handling of Raju's parents was pretty good.
Song sequences were mostly a pain.
How do Aamir and Madhavan manage to look reasonably realistic as 20somethings ?!
After all the controversy with Chetan Bhagat ; I felt that while the movie was irrevocably situated in the ideas of the book, there was a huge amount of original stuff overall. Which doesn't say much I guess !
And they had some truly atrocious product placements. Shame on you Vidhu Vinod Chopra
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