3 Idiots
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| 3 Idiots | |
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| Directed by | Rajkumar Hirani |
| Produced by | Vidhu Vinod Chopra |
| Written by | Screenplay: Abhijat Joshi Rajkumar Hirani Novel: Chetan Bhagat |
| Starring | Aamir Khan R. Madhavan Sharman Joshi Kareena Kapoor Boman Irani Omi Vaidya Parikshit Sahni Javed Jaffrey |
| Music by | Shantanu Moitra |
| Cinematography | Muraleetharana |
| Editing by | Rajkumar Hirani |
| CBFC Rating | U/A |
| Distributed by | Vinod Chopra Productions |
| Release date(s) | India 25 December 2009 United States 23 December 2009 UK 23 December 2009 |
| Running time | 164 minutes |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | Rs. 35 crore (US$ 7.46 million)[1] |
| Gross revenue | Rs. 470 crore (US$ 100.11 million)[2] |
Upon release, the film broke all opening box office records in India. It was the highest-grossing film in its opening weekend in India and has the highest opening day collections for a Bollywood film. It also has the record for highest net collections in the first week for a Bollywood film. Within 10 days of its release, the film crossed the INR 1 billion mark in India and became the first film of 2009 to do so. The film also created a new box office record for a release in the last quarter of a year (October to December), breaking the previous record set by Ghajini. It is also the highest-grossing film to be released in the second half of the year (July to December), breaking the previous record also held by Ghajini.
3 Idiots has become the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time in India[3] and is also the highest grossing Indian film ever breaking the record made by the Tamil film, Dasavathaaram a 2008 Kamal Haasan starrer.[4] The film set a box office record for the Indian film industry, grossing Rs 470 crore (US$ 100 million) worldwide.[5] It was expected to be the first Indian film to be officially released on YouTube, within 12 weeks of releasing in theaters on March 25, 2010, but never got released.[6] The film also went on to win many awards, winning six Filmfare Awards including best film and best director, and ten Star Screen Awards. Furthermore, it won 16 IIFA awards.
The film also uses 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 exercise-bicycle-cum-washing-machine, Mohammad Idris, a barber from 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.[7]
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