The idiotic wait is over, yes I saw "3 idiots" yesterday and I can say now "Aal is well" with me and my idiotic mates @NITRKL.
Hats off to you Mr. Hirani, Aamir and the crew who brought live, the story of our struggle at campus.A very true and emotionaldepiction of campus life, and I am damn sure that any guy going to watch this out will relate it to his or her story.
I too felt the same as me and my closest pals never belonged to the category of "Silencer".My emotions are high today aftera quarter of Old Monk(thanks again Mr. Hirani for choosing our brand) and I am going to take you back in time, please tie down your seat belts....
Date: June 2002 Place: Bhubaneshwar
Two guys stepping down of Purushottam express with a dream in their eyes, one's phsique was more prouncing as his rank was well within 15and the other's was low like his rank > 15.
But I was getting constant confidence boosting words from him, "Arey mill jayega", but the words were appearing more condoling thanconsoling.
Ayway, we managed to reach outside the Agriculture collge premises where the counselling was scheduled. There we met two thags, yes Banarsi thags.But their message for me was great and their message was "Mera dost first ranker hai aur wo JNU join kar raha hai".
"To kya tha kuch der pehle tak ek din hin dikhne waala brahman, seena chauda kar ke ghumne laga". "Ab bhubneshwar ki haawon mein ekajeeb se thandak aa gayi thi".
We went inside the hall and there I found the central character of "3 Idiots", yes, I met Rancho or John or banda kuch bhi kah lo naam meinkya rakha hai.Now, few people can claim they are more close to Rancho, but I have consullted a few people too before choosing him.
"ye janab ko REC ya NIT ke naam se kuch nahi lena dena tha, ye to sirf private college ke laptop se aakarsit the aur agar dost narokte to unme se he kisi college ko join kar lete".
I must accept that he was looking quite decent with his fluent english speaking father. "maine pehle nazar mein he heere ko parakh liyaaur decide kiya ki rahoonga to isi ke saath college mein roomie ban ke".
However my friend Mritunjay was constantly pressing me for the same, "Raha jayega mast"."Magar mujhe us samay usme kuch mast nahi dikh raha tha,aakhir saamne Ahurag jo tha".
"Haan, wahan ek ladki bhi thi jo har kisi ko ek he tarah he ghoor rahi thi"."magar wo Kareena ke role mein fit nahi ho sakti the isliye discussion yahin drop".
Date:2 Aug - Nov 2002 Place: Rourkela
Seniors greeted us at the hostel doorsteps and I felt very good as one of them(a tall 6 feet guy) took my luggage to room no 33, yes the last room inour corridor.I was touched by this gesture and thanked as well as prayed to god "bhagwan subko aisa senior de".
"Magar mujhe kya pata tha ki wahi bhagwan raat mein 33 mein haiwaan ka roop le leta hai".
"Maine apne pure life mein is tarah ka utha patak nahi dekha tha"."Mujhe laga saala ee ka ho gaya? magar dil mein kuch sukun bhi tha kyunkimere jaisa mera ajeej dost Kara maha daiytoo ko bardast kar raha tha".
"PDP ke baad main rote hue sone jaata tha, magar apna dost Rancho apne ek aviskar... table lamp ke saath baith kar kuch likhta rahta thaMain man he man kahta tha is bande ko dekho padhai ka kitna lagan hai, mera career ab sahi direction mein bhage ga".
"Do teen din dekhne ke baad maine aakhir us se puch liya, abhi to keetab bhi nahi mila hai kya likte aur sochte ho tum?".
The answer I got gave me the confidence that my decision for Rancho, and his answer was "senior log jo 10 naya gaali likhneko diya hai na wo he soch rahe the".Great sipirit, "give your best whatever you do".
Then there were numerous incidents in PDP like "Chunri Chunri","Kashmir ka sair","Revolting to memorise senior's name" thatcemented his character.
"Entry of Silencer"
The PDP continued for 3 months and during this we heard a name "*ri Babu".
He never came for our PDP as he was over occupied in hisresearch, we have not figured it out so far, what science he was studying?Based on the inputs and the gestures, he sounded more close to "Silencer" of "3 idiots" than anyone.Mugging fulltime and spreading negativeenery among kamjor vidyarthis was his favourite pass time.
Soon, the new batch also divided into two no I will say 4 categories.
S Group stands for (Silencer group):For whom "*ri Babu" was idol and his techniques were useful for succeding @RKL.
R Group stands for (Rastogi group):Who were naive and can't do much to their career. They didn't have a consistent academic career and were supposed to failat the first step of campus interviews.
C Group stands for (Chinra group):This group were inspired by Operations Research techniques and used to follow it in real life.They used to apply Travelling salesman program for going back post :)"Khud ko bina involve kiye best solution kaise nikle, maharat haasil tha inhe".
Rancho group: No body except John was there in this group.
"Struggle for % and shaking of R group's confidence"
It didn't take much time for S group to overpower all the groups, yes, the first semester result was overand an era of misseries started for R group.And the result also started a "caste system".
The effect of results was quite visible on R group, they used to go to mess or common room when there was minimumchances of face to face with S group. I used to follow the sharp 8'o clock schedule.
There were some golden rules defined by "Silencer" and the R group was failing in all the litmus tests.Failing in "Silencer's" test was a quite a big affair at that time, "*ri Babu bole hain tab to sahi mein muskil hoga"
"S group to lagta tha company aane se pehle he naukri le legi."
Everyone who belonged to the R group was braving an emotional war,I saw a lot of "U can win" copies in circulation and we used to do this without the knowledge of S group, the room allotment was to blame for this.The hostel authorities never found anything wrong in putting "a Rastogi with a Silencer".
"yaar khud socho Rastogi ke confidence kiwaat lagegi ki nahi"."Rastogi sirf Silencer ke sone ka intazar karte rahta tha ki wo kab soye aur wo "You Can Win" padhe".
"You can win opened a hell lot of opportunities for Rastogi,"chalo DBMS nahi chamak raha hai to kya hua cricket mein kuch karte hain" And this is where the situation worsened and Rastogi failed in the 70% rule defined by "Silencer"."Ab naukri kaise milegi, so R group waalone campus se pehle he hattiyar daal diye".
Date: Sep 2006 Place: Mayuri, Bangalore
The wide line between the R and S group has diminished.K*** is working along with D**, rancho has share in UB group,Rastogi has a great job and the best thing is "Silencer's" golden rules have failed.
"Chaliye film khatam ho gaya,my wife said". And then I realised that "3 idiots" stories is based on our NIT RKL's "4 idiots" and not "Five point Someone".
Hope you guys had a good time.
Amit
Discalimer:Please don't take anything personally as I just used some names for fun.
