Three college friends from poor families, Farhan Qureshi, Raju Rastogi and Rancho recollect stories of their life at Delhi's Imperial College of Engineering. The film describes their juvenile antics, mainly against the Dean, Viru Sahastrabudhe – Virus, and ambitious student, Chatur Ramalingam. Behind this is a backdrop of studying, peer rivalry, passing exams, and passing the close scrutiny of Virus is the blanket cast by the ancient caste system. In more than 2.5 hours of amusing playback (with only one or two plausible scenes), his two friends and Chatur edges towards locating Rancho, who vanished immediately upon graduation. Hot on the heels is also the Dean’s daughter, a betrothed medical doctor who was the girl he tried to woo during his undergraduate years.
Overall, I would rate this film as highly watchable for its provocative thoughts about the notion of education, social class, and the divide between rich and poor. Last year, in my piece about The Apprentice (where Donald Trump competes candidates on both book-smart and street-smart), I was exploring the relevance of education and types of education. I have observed salient differences between young, unemployed, graduates and older, working graduates and their results and motivations.
How do you educate yourself? What makes you value your education? How do you add on to your education? Which is your current smorgasbord of educational sources and triggers? How do you utilise your book-smartness with your street-smartness?
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