I don't know why you guys are complaining about the melodrama and unrealistic scenes. That's the Bollywood archetype. Anything different, and it wouldn't be a Bollywood movie...It would be a Hollywood movie made by Indians. I thought 3 Idiots was a very solid Bollywood movie...probably one of my favorites.
haha...no. those were two recent movies that I liked, and he just coincidentally happened to be in both of them. btw, he wasnt in the other move I mentioned (Paa) Anyway, this is off-topic, but more than Aamir Khan's movies, I like the movies that Abhay Deol does: Manorama Six Feet Under Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! Dev D and Road (coming out later this year) looks promising
That used to be the Bollywood archetype. There are some movies now days which take themselves a little more seriously without all the pointless melodrama. Granted, they are rare, but they do exist now. I look at Taare Zameen Par as one of the most recent examples. As a story, it was very similar to 3 Idiots. In a nutshell, both were about letting your kids realize their dreams and setting their own goals instead of putting enormous pressure on them to fulfill the parents' perception of what their kid should become. One felt genuine while the other felt contrived. Taare Zameen Par was a great story about a boy and what someone in his position would probably go through in India. It flowed extremely well, and by the end, you had an attachment with the kid without all the melodrama. There weren't sayings like "All Izz Well" where the whole freakin climax was built on it. There weren't unusual coincidences where an ex girlfriend just happens to be getting married 10 years later on the exact same day where the friends go in search of Aamir Khan, so it can add pointless drama when the characters make her run away from her wedding. There wasn't touching each other's noses to tell them they love them (Kuch Kuch Hota Hai). There wasn't a standoff about "love" between two actors (Srk and pretty much anyone he's been in a movie with). It was all in context and it worked extremely well. I guess that is what I expect from an Aamir Khan movie, but 3 Idiots didn't deliver. It seemed to take a page out of Shahrukh and Akshay Kumar movies where you need the melodrama and coincidences to be successful. The story could've been told much better without all of that crap. Unfortunately, it wasn't.
