MUMBAI: 3 geniuses of the film industry, talented director Raju Hirani who made the industry proud with his blockbuster series â€?Munnabhai’, actor Madhavan, known for his acting abilities displayed in his role in â€?Rang De Basanti’ and actor Sharman Joshi, well known in the industry for his comic timing visited the Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM studio in Mumbai today to promote their upcoming film â€?3 Idiots’.
The actual third idiot of the film, actor Aamir Khan was missing in action as he was lost and could not be found. His friends Madhavan and Sharman expressed that they had been looking for him all over but he was untraceable!
The three geniuses spoke to Jeeturaj about everything there was to be spoken about, right from current affairs, cricket, their nicknames in real life to their characters in the movie.
When asked about their nicknames, Madhavan said that he was called â€?Maddy’ as people in Canada could not pronounce his name and a witty Sharman added that he had no nickname,
I do not have a pet name, my parents probably did not love me too much… Raju Hiranin said that his name is actually Rajkumar, owing to Raj Kapoor’s popularity in his younger days and Raju is thus short for Rajkumar.
They then spoke about their characters in the film, while Madhavan’s character is confused, Sharman’s is spiritual and Aamir’s is free spirited!
Director Raju Hirani added that keeping in line with his onscreen character of being a free spirited person, Aamir has been moving all over the country promoting the film in his vagabond style… he said that Aamir has even been nicknamed â€?Marketing monster’ by the team because of his aggressive yet fun style of promoting the movie!
The film 3 Idiots is said to be loosely based on Chetan Bhagat’s novel â€?Five point someone’, it revolves around three friends played by Aamir Khan, Sharman Joshi and R Madhavan, and is a story of their hostel days. Kareena Kapoor plays Aamir’s love interest in college.
Raju Hirani confessed that while reading the book he thought making the film around it would be easy, but eventually it certainly was anything but easy!
3 Idiots is ranked as one of the most anticipated Bollywood films of this year It is slated to release on Christmas day, 25th December.