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Let us find out how Chetan Bhagat's Five Point Someone and 3 Idiots are different. Aamir Khan has stated that Chetan Bhagat, the famous novelist is trying to seek publicity from 3 Idiots, which has turned to be one of the biggest blockbusters of Bollywood. He has even asked the makers to initiate legal action against the author. Chetan Bhagat has stated that 3 Idiots is 70 per cent Five Point Someone, and would have appreciated if he was given credit in a proper way.
At Bollywood Trends, we find out the similarity and differences between 3 Idiots and Five Point Someone. 3 Idiots is just BASED on Five Point Someone, 70 percent of the movie is different. Having said this, Five Point Someone is an excellent book and Chetan Bhagat should have been given credit on the starting reels
Here are the similarities of 3 Idiots and Five Point Someone:
- The biggest similarity between 3 Idiots and Five Point Someone is Alok(Raju’s character) which is very similar to that of the movie. The background of Raj(Sharman Joshi)’s house with invalid father and poor mother with a sister of marriageable age and Maruti car as dowry. Everything ditto
- The open ragging scene is similar but the treatment is different: In Five Point Someone, a coke bottle is about to be shoved behind Alok(Raju) and Farhan(Hari) till Ryan rescues them. But in the movie, there is the scene in which the collegians have to strip and dance.
- The Paper Stealing Scene: In Five Point Someone, Alok jumps out of the insti roof because they are caught stealing papers. In 3 Idiots, Raju jumps out of the roof because Professor Virus tells him that he will be expelled from college, if he does not admit that Rancho and Farhan are responsible for his(Virus') housebreak. In 3 Idiots, Rancho and Farhan steal papers only to help Alok who has broken his legs. But the paper stealing scene is there
- Venkat((Chatur Ramalingam) the studios guy for whom Alok leaves his friends so that he could get good grades is there in 3 Idiots as well. Alok comes back to his friends leaving Chatur when Ryan helps his invalid dad. In 3 Idiots, Rancho and Pia take the dad to the hospital.
- Neha explains to her dad Cherian how her own brother committed suicide due to unrealistic expectation set by her father. The book delves in depth about Cherian’s regret for his over expectation but the movie has just one scene where Pia tells her dad about her brother’s suicide.
Three dialogues similar in 3 Idiots and Five Point Someone:
1. The examiner looked at me as if I had asked for his kidneys
2. I am not drawing the line, I am making it for a change
3. Define Machine
Here are the scenes that are different in 3 Idiots, which dint feature in Chetan Bhagat's Five Point Someone
1. The suicide scene in the earlier part of the movie
2. Pia’s sister Mona has a full fledged role in the movie, there is no such thing in the book Five Point Someone.
3. The scenes where Rancho gives a demo everytime to make Pia understand her fiancé doesn’t love her, does not feature in the book
4. Mona’s in labor scene is not there in the book
5. Chatur Ramalingam’s chamatkar balaatkar scene is not in the book
6. The twist before the interval of Javed Jafferi in the movie is not there in the book
7. The climax where Omi says that he has a meeting with a Japanese scientist does not feature anywhere in the book. In fact, the movie has lots to talk about whereas the book ends with Cherian’s admission that he was responsible for his son’s suicide. This is mentioned fleetingly I the movie
8. The vanishing act of Rancho is never there in the book
9.Most importantly the story in Five Point Someone is about Hari who is love with the professor Cherian’s girl Neha. In this the guy who plays Hari, Farhan(R.Madhavan) has nothing to do with Pia (Neha). Pia is Rancho’s girlfriend. Neha has a very important role to play in Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Somone. She does not agree to meet Hari because she is scared of being spotted by her father Cherian. She is shy, introvert kind of female but Pia (Kareena Kapoor) was that of an extrovert
So readers, now you decide who should get the credit for 3 Idiots, Chetan Bhagat or the script writer Abhijat Joshi?
12 comments:
Yet another shameless rip off from Bollywood!
Plagiarism runs through our veins- Be it:
1 tv shows
2 music
3 submitting assignments to the teacher
4 copying someone else's research work for a PhD
Three idiots = Aamir Khan, VV Chopra, R Hirani
thts the reason why it should be called "based on the novel by Chetan Bhagath" and not copied from the novel by "Chetan Bhagath"
if film-makers make comments like "every scene is different from the book", then it is absolutely shameful.
The basis of a movie is its story, and the story in this case was based on FPS. The film-makers did a good job of 'adapting' it for the big screen, but in no way did they come up with an original script.
Anyone who has seen Slumdog Millionaire will not find a single scene to be a copy of the book, but that is how adaptations are, only the story is same, screenplay is obviously different. Still you see Mr. Vikas Swaroop's and the book Q&A mentioned at the beginning of the film
I and my friends strongly disagree with Aamir Khan's comments over Chetan Bhagat crying for publicity. Chetan is the most loved novelist of the decade and does not require any cheap publicity. His books are much more read and talked about than Aamir's movies which have a count of 1 per annum with no guarantee of being hit. Anyone who has read '5 points someone' can confirm that the movie '3 idiots' is fully based on the novel. I fail to understand how come it took 3 years for a script writer to copy a novel and how irresponsible it was of Aamir Khan to give public comments like this for Chetan Bhagat.
Chetan is not at all running for publicity but then no intelligent man can let anyone else take credit of his work.
We are in full support of you Chetan.
I and my friends strongly disagree with Aamir Khan's comments over Chetan Bhagat crying for publicity. Chetan is the most loved novelist of the decade and does not require any cheap publicity. His books are much more read and talked about than Aamir's movies which have a count of 1 per annum with no guarantee of being hit. Anyone who has read '5 points someone' can confirm that the movie '3 idiots' is fully based on the novel. I fail to understand how come it took 3 years for a script writer to copy a novel and how irresponsible it was of Aamir Khan to give public comments like this for Chetan Bhagat.
Chetan is not at all running for publicity but then no intelligent man can let anyone else take credit of his work.
We are in full support of you Chetan.
I support Chetan Bhagat. The movie is evidently based on his novel, in spite of the major differences. Mr. Bhagat is a brilliant novelist and one of the most loved too. Bollywood thinks that it rules India. Wake up, Bollywood, you dont!
Amazing as always
Mr. Chetan Bhagat, they know very well that without your book they couldnot made that movie. We dont need to tell them they called themselves IDIOTS by keeping the title 3 idiots. Those idiots never know this.
The original work will never go unrewarded. You dont need any credit from these IDIOTS.
I HATE AAMIR KHAN.
there are more similarities in the movie 3idiots with the five point someone...so some credit must go to the chetan bhagat..
Buddy they could not have 3Idiots without Five Point Someone(FPS)(one of the greatest books)..
FPS is the brain of IITian and MBA from IIM-A..
Ask that Abhijat Joshi to continue that story further and I bet he'll go onto 2 States!!
Bollywood always does this. They copy good movies from different languages in India and does never give credit to any of these script writers. I have read many such incidents happened between malayalam scriptwriters and bollywood producers. Most of the malayalam superhits has been remade by bollywood. Since they have money they can do anything.
Feeling sorry for Chetan Bhagat. Did not expect this from Aamir Khan. I will never watch an Aamir Khan movie again theatre. I will only watch it in pirated copies.
i think aamir knan won't be wrong
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