Five Point Someone to 3 Idiots
A 'how to' guide. please add your views on the conversion, not the evaluation of this writeup.
Step 1. Take the Story of Five Point Someone
It starts with the first day in IIT, and ends at the Convocation day - A story of four years.
Now Change names:
A. Hari (The narrator) -> Farhan (The narrator)
B. Alok -> Raju
C. Ryan -> Rancho
D. Venkat -> Chatur
E. Combine all faculty members, directors, Prof Cherian (HOD), other profs, etc except the 'MACHINE' teaching prof into one whole-sole incharge-> ViruS Sahastrabuddhi
F. Neha Cherian -> Pia Sahastrabuddhi
and so on. The rest of characters are almost same, with different names. The add-on characters of 3i mentioned in the next section.
Step 2. Add one more day to this whole story - a day after 10 years, on which the friends A, B and D go search of C - to Shimla, Laddakh etc.
Step 3. Now put point 1 above in the flash back of 2, shuttling multiple times, to get to the story line of 3i. Other things being same, except the three detailed below.
Now the differences in characters/ scenes:
(i). Elevate Rancho's character - remove heroic things from other characters
a. The narration in FPS is done in a way that the three friends are having different qualities and equal weighting, With the narration being done by the character 'Hari', and special section for 'Alok Speaks', 'Ryan Speaks' and 'Neha Speaks'
For 3i, Change the narration in such a way, that the narrator will always appraise, thank, hail Rancho (Aamir's character) from the word Go.
b. Neha Cherian and Hari had an affair in FPS. In 3i, Attach her to Rancho (...poor Madhvan!)
c. All the three friends are almost equal in academic results (i.e. 5 pointers - bottom of the class) in FPS. In 3i Rancho get to the top position miraculously (How can Aamir score bad - he is after all a bollywood movie's 'HERO')' ;-)
d. Let ViruS Ignore the moments where Rancho commits some non-FPS blunder (The chamatkar-balatkar stuff), but a due warning for Raju and Farhan (letters to their parents for their wrong doings).
e. Give more chance for rancho to become hero - make the challengers more prominent- ViruS and Chatur more autocratic and slogger kinds - giving moments & a bet for highlighting Rancho's ingeniousness.
f. Add a 'delivery of the baby - rancho is genius' at the end of 3i. (see ii-c below)
(ii). Add the following supporting cast and scene to support (i) above:
a. The 'actual' Ranchoddass story; This is a part of Step 2, fulfilling the need of (i) above. This makes the character of Rancho taller, but on the cost of something absurd - some using the degree of a prestigious institute just to put it on wall. Lacks a logic - The alumni association will anyway track down the career of the best performing student!
b. Manmohan (Rahul Kumar) or millimeter, a nice comic character, positively appraising Rancho from second to last scene.
c. Add Mona Sahastrabuddhe (Mona), to have that 'Baby delivery - Rancho is genius' scene. unfortunately, Mona does not serve any other purpose! Dont know how Mumbai like floods came to Delhi.
d. Add Pia's fiancée - which is of course having more bad things than Rancho, less positive qualities than Rancho and an absurd run from the marriage scene.
(iii).Copy from other sources
a. Pick up jokes from the internet and add it to the movie - most of them actually floated in forwarded mails - like 'if nothing is impossible then put the toothpaste back into the tube', 'why don't we use pencil's to write in the space' , 'do you know our names/roll-numbers' and mixing the answer copies among others.
b. Add a script of fart jokes here and there (Thankfully they did not added potty-jokes or other such stuff).
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These are the changes as far as story line is concerned. The dialogs - scripts as they say - is different.
Not writing on the similarities - rest all of FPS and 3i is having the same base as far as story line is concerned.
