3 Idiots
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Rajkumar Hirani |
| Produced by | Vidhu Vinod Chopra |
| Written by | Abhijat Joshi Rajkumar Hirani |
| Screenplay by |
Abhijat Joshi Rajkumar Hirani Vidhu Vinod Chopra |
| Based on |
Five Point Someone – What not to do at IIT! by Chetan Bhagat |
| Starring | |
| Narrated by | R. Madhavan |
| Music by |
Songs: Shantanu Moitra Background Score: Sanjay Wandrekar Atul Raninga |
| Cinematography | C. K. Muraleedharan |
| Edited by | Rajkumar Hirani |
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| Distributed by | Reliance BIG Pictures |
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Release date
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Running time
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171 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language |
Hindi English subtitles |
| Budget | ₹55 crore |
| Box office | est. ₹392 crore |
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| Soundtrack album by Shantanu Moitra | |
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
| Label | T-Series |
| Producer | Shantanu Moitra |
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| Bollywood Hungama |    |
| Behindwoods | |
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| Planet Bollywood |   |
3 Idiots is a 2009 Indian coming of age comedy-drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Rajkumar Hirani and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Abhijat Joshi wrote the screenplay. It was inspired by the novel Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat. The film stars Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Omi Vaidya, Parikshit Sahni and Boman Irani.
Upon release, the film was the highest-grossing film in its opening weekend in India and had the highest opening day collections for an Indian film up until that point. It also held the record for the highest net collections in the first week for a Bollywood film. It also became one of the few Indian films to become successful in East Asian markets such as China, eventually bringing its overseas total to more than US$65 million at the time—the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time in overseas markets, before being overtaken by Chennai Express in 2013. Over the years, it has attained the cult status.
The film is distinctive for featuring real inventions by little-known people in India's backyards. The brains behind the innovations were Remya Jose, a student from Kerala, who created the pedal operated washing-machine; Mohammad Idris, a barber from Hasanpur Kalan in Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh, who invented a bicycle-powered horse clipper; and Jahangir Painter, a painter from Maharashtra, who made the scooter-powered flour mill. The subtitled version of the film grew popular in South Asia, especially China, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines.
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