Som

From the moment the Air India aircraft takes off and R. Madhavan (Farhan) unbuckles his seat belt, the movie takes flight. It grabs you by the heart and just runs away with it.

This is a movie made in a burst of inspired lunacy and thank god for madmen such as Raju Hirani and co-writer Abhijat Joshi for making it possible. Otherwise consider a delivery using a vacuum cleaner, an anti-ragging device using a home made lightning rod, and a series of uncovered butts requiring a rubber stamp saying ok tested.

Three students, one made cowardly by his family’s misery told in black and white like a 1950s film, another rendered meek by his Hitler father’s targeted generosity and yet another a mysterious boy with the urge to learn. There’s a principal, evil incarnate, who makes young boys jump to their deaths or at least to a state of paralysis; a girlfriend, his daughter, Pia (Kareena Kapoor) who is saved from a life with a Mr Price Tag, and Chatur Ramalingam (introducing a fantastic find from Los Angeles, Omi), the embodiment of everything that an IIT or in this case the Imperial College of Engineering wants to achieve: a factory producing young Indians who aspire for a $3.5 million home in the US with a heated swimming pool, maple wood floor, a Lamborghini and a beautiful wife in a black sari. A factory where 200 students are chosen from four lakh applications. A pressure cooker where everyone is always on the edge.

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