History Characters / ThreeIdiots

* BespectacledCutie: A GenderFlipped and downplayed example. While the bespectacled Farhan can be as energetic as Rancho, part of the problem in his character arc is that he is too shy and afraid to convince his father that he doesn't want to become an engineer.

* AcademicAlphaBitch: A GenderFlipped version during his ICE days.

* TheBet: Chatur made a one-sided one to Farhan and Rancho after they sabotaged his Teachers' Day speech that lead him to become a laughingstock. This ends up becoming a plot point, since Chatur's unwillingness to let go of his grudge towards Rancho kickstarts to the search for him in order to settle this particular bet. [[spoiler:He ultimately loses the bet as Rancho is a world-renowned inventor and scientist with hundreds of patents to his name.]]

* DirtyCoward: When the real Ranchodas holds him, Farhan and Raju at gunpoint, Chatur's response is to immediately run, leaving the other two to face Ranchodas.

* NouveauRiche: After graduation, Chatur became the vice-president of the Rockledge corporation. He owns a $3.5 million mansion with heated indoor swimming pool, and a Lamborghini 6496cc. However, his manners are rather obnoxious, flaunting his success to his former classmates, farting frequently, and urinating in public places. His fluency in Hindi leaves much to be desired.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Downplayed. Rancho isn't exactly a bad person per se. However, his conflict with Chatur and the latter's strong resentment towards him after the Teacher's Day prank is justified no matter how he is correct in pinpointing Chatur's way in succeeding in his academics (blindly memorizing the speech instead of taking time to read and analyze it) because he faced humiliation over it in front of everyone and most likely become a laughingstock afterwards. Compared to Virus' direct opposition to Rancho, Chatur barely did anything to piss Rancho off prior to that fateful event.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Downplayed. Rancho isn't exactly a bad person per se. However, his conflict with Chatur and the latter's strong resentment towards him after the Teacher's Day prank and face great humiliation from it is justified no matter how he is correct in pinpointing Chatur's way in succeeding in his academics (blindly memorizing the speech instead of taking time to read and analyze it). Compared to Virus' direct opposition to Rancho, Chatur barely did anything to piss Rancho off prior to that fateful event.

* HospitalHottie: She is a med student played by Kareena Kapoor. In the present day, she works at a hospital in Delhi.

* GadgeteerGenius: From taser to improvised ventouse, Rancho can create useful, even life-saving devices from scratch.

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: He made his bet during September 5th, which is Teachers' Day in India and the date when he was thoroughly humiliated by Rancho by editing his speech. Chatur mindlessly memorized and recited it in front of the ICE body and other important figures, including the Education Minister. More than a decade later, when he seems to be assured about his win by assuming Rancho ended up as a school teacher and smugly mocks him over it (and generally looks down on that particular career overall), little does he know that that's only one of Rancho's jobs, as he is a famed and well-esteemed scientist, and the very man that Chatur needs to secure a deal with for his company. In other words, he is defeated by a "lowly" school teacher.]]

* NoveauRiche: After graduation, Chatur became the vice-president of the Rockledge corporation. He owns a $3.5 million mansion with heated indoor swimming pool, and a Lamborghini 6496cc. However, his manners are rather obnoxious, flaunting his success to his former classmates, farting frequently, and urinating in public places. His fluency in Hindi leaves much to be desired.

[[folder:Suhas Tandon]]
!!Suhas Tandon
-->'''Played by:''' Olivier Sanjay Lafont
\\
Pia's fiancé who only cares about money, status, and ostentation.

* {{Jerkass}}: His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him insulting Pia's old watch and calling it junk, despite that it holds sentimental value for her. [[spoiler: No wonder she leaves him alone at the altar.]]
* RichBastard: All of his appearances in the film have him loudly flaunting his wealth and status.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Three times and he failed all of them to prove to Pia that he will treat her like nothing but a glorified TrophyWife.
** First at Mona's wedding in which Rancho ruins his Italian shoes and he accuses the ignorant server for ruining it.
** Next is his explosive reaction when Pia seemingly loses the new watch that he bought her not too long ago and he once again insults her old watch.
** Finally, more than a decade later when Raju inflicts a WardrobeWound at his wedding clothes to get Farhan's point across that he isn't a changed man.
* StaticCharacter: He remains the same superficial rich bastard even after ten years.

[[folder:'''SPOILER CHARACTER''']]
!!Ranchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad
-->'''Played by:''' Javed Jaffrey
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/realranchodas.png]]

It turns out that the man who claims himself to be Ranchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad when Farhan, Raju, and Chatur encounter him at Shimla is actually the real one, and the "Rancho" that they know was actually an imposter. Despite his initial opposition upon Farhan and Raju calling him a fraud, Ranchoddas is subdued and tells them the truth: Chanchad's father sponsored an orphaned servant boy called Chhote (Phunsukh Wangdu), who had demonstrated his prodigious intelligence and love of learning, to earn a degree in the real Ranchoddas's name while the latter was in London. He appreciates what his employee did for him, and tells Raju and Farhan where to find him.

!! 3 Idiots
[[folder: Farhan Qureshi]]
!! Farhan Qureshi

[[folder: Raju Rastogi]]

[[folder: Ranchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad '''(Unmarked Spoilers)''']]
!! "Ranchodas Shamaldas Chanchad" / [[spoiler: Phunsukh Wangdu]]

* {{Catchphrase}}: "All is well." Doubles as SurvivalMantra, to calm himself down during stressful moments. This is eventually becomes a BorrowedCatchphrase to Farhan, Raju, and Pia. This catchphrase becomes a ChekhovsGun to save Mona's baby.

[[folder: Chatur Ramalingam]]
!! Chatur Ramalingam

** He doesn't like his EmbarrassingNickname Silencer.

* {{Gasshole}}: His consumption of memorization pills lead him to be this and subsequently mocked as Silencer.

[[folder: Joy Lobo]]
!! Joy Lobo

* AmbiguouslyChristian: Several things point to him being one or at least his parents are. His funeral notable is conducted by a priest and his casket has a cross on it, his first name is also deeply associated with the faith.

[[folder: Viru Sahastrabuddhe]]
!! Viru Sahastrabuddhe

The director of Imperial College of Engineering during the trio's years at the college and Pia and Mona's father. Nicknamed as Virus, he stubbornly sticks to a doctrinal method of teaching, putting him at odds with Rancho, which the student believes to be inhumane and irrational.

* InSeriesNickname: He is consistently referred to as Virus.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He is nicknamed by the trio as Virus. Like a computer virus, he is really a thorn to every students' way, most especially to the trio.

[[folder: Man Mohan]]
!! Man Mohan

An adolescent member of the ICE staff. Nicknamed as Millimeter, he earns a small living by doing errands for students, such as laundry, finishing assignments, and getting groceries. Rancho persuades him to buy a school uniform and sneak into school to gain an education.\\

[[folder: Pia Sahastrabuddhe]]
!! Pia Sahastrabuddhe

* AdaptationRelationshipChange: In ''Five Point Someone'', Pia's book counterpart Neha Cherian was the love interest to Farhan's counterpart instead of Rancho's.

[[folder: Mona Sahastrabuddhe]]

[[folder: Suhas Tandon]]
!! Suhas Tandon

[[folder: '''SPOILER CHARACTER''']]
!! Ranchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad

It turns out that the man who claims himself to be Ranchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad when Farhan, Raju, and Chatur encounter him at Shimla is actually the real one, and the Rancho that they know was actually an imposter. Despite his initial opposition upon Farhan and Raju calling him a fraud, Ranchoddas is subdued and tells them the truth: Chanchad's father sponsored an orphaned servant boy called Chhote (Phunsukh Wangdu), who had demonstrated his prodigious intelligence and love of learning, to earn a degree in the real Ranchoddas's name while the latter was in London. He appreciates what his employee did for him, and tells Raju and Farhan where to find him.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Threatens to kill Farhan and Raju when the two accuse him of being a fraud who pocketed Rancho's degree. After a brief GunpointBanter with him losing after the duo take his [[AshesToCrashes father's ashes as hostage]], he finally lays down his weapon [[TheReveal and subsequently spills the truth]].

* CoolLoser: Alongside Raju. Unlike him, Farhan doesn't mind. He knows that he has no chance competing against others anyway since he has no interest in engineering.

* CoolLoser: Alongside Farhan. He was embarrassed of how he was treated like a joke, until he ditches the ostracization in favor of getting real support from his TrueCompanions.

* TheBet: During the class picture taking, he sarcastically bets that if either Farhan or Raju, the dead lasts of ICE, gets a job, he will shave his beard. [[spoiler: Which his assistant Govind honors when Raju ends up hired. And still maintains it all the way to the present.]]

* TraumaticHaircut: [[spoiler: Treats his shaved beard as equivalent of this trope. He laments that he feels naked without it.]]

* CameraFiend: Farhan is this, being an aspiring photographer after all. He enjoys taking pictures of the most important milestones in his life [[spoiler: such as Raju's discharge from the hospital after his suicide, Virus holding his almost stillborn grandson, and the graduation ceremony. His eye for photography serves as a ChekhovsSkill and subtle {{Foreshadowing}} when Chatur shows Farhan the picture of the person who gave him the opportunity to deal with Phunsukh Wangdu, in which Farhan pays attention to the familiar side face that resembles Rancho. And as eventually revealed at the ending, Phunsukh Wangdu is Rancho's true identity, showing to the audience that Farhan and Raju were closer in reaching Rancho simply by reestablishing their contacts with Chatur even before their confrontation against the real Ranchoddas.]]

* GrewASpine: Like Raju, Farhan's CharacterDevelopment is this but in a different manner: [[spoiler: he finally asserts himself in front of his father and tells him outright that he doesn't want to become an engineer and instead wants to become a photographer. And finally succeeds by doing so.]]
* MeaningfulName: His name means "happiness". Initially, it is an IronicName since he is unhappy about his circumstances of being forced to study engineering in favor of pursuing the thing that makes him happy, which is wildlife photography. This trope is played straight after [[spoiler: he gathers enough courage and support from his TrueCompanions enough to convince his father to let him pursue his happiness of his choice for once and succeeds, as shown in the present timeline.]]
* NiceToTheWaiter: Upon his arrival at his dorm room at ICE, Farhan pays Millimeter and tells him to keep the change as he genuinely thanks him for carrying his things. At that small act of kindness, Millimeter tells him and Raju to wear their best underwear at night so that they will not end up becoming a laughingstock at the ragging.
* UndyingLoyalty: Although the trio shows this to each other, Farhan deserves a special mention because he is the one who sticks with Rancho throughout the earlier years at ICE, especially when [[SadistTeacher Virus starts to antagonize the trio]] and [[PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure Raju abandons them]] before the reconciliation.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler: Realizing that Pia is going through with her marriage to Suhas because she is afraid of people laughing at her if she decides to do otherwise, Raju asks her if she's going to commit suicide. Not a literal one, but a ''metaphorical'' one in a sense that he asks her if she is willing to throw happiness out of the window and lead an unhappy life despite having a way to be with Rancho again, just because she is afraid of other people's perception of her.]]
* AshesToCrashes: [[spoiler: He is the one who calls the shots to subdue the real Ranchoddas Chanchad into telling the truth in this way, threatening to throw Shamaldas' ashes into the toilet bowl and flush it. Although they picked the wrong urn, it's heavily implied that Raju will play this trope straight, given how understandably angry and confused he is at the possibility that this man pocketed his best friend's degree and achievements, just to make the scion speak.]]
* ButtMonkey: A subtle example, but out of the trio, Raju seems to be on the short end of the stick. He was Virus' favorite target to put the trio down, [[spoiler: like being forced to make a choice to have Rancho expelled or he himself would be expelled when he was caught by Virus drinking and sneaking into his house last night. And when he got a job despite his low grades that really hurt Virus' ego, he set an unfair test for Raju to fail which lead Rancho, Farhan, and indirectly Pia to steal the paper for him that eventually lead to the trio's expulsion.]]

* GrewASpine: His entire CharacterDevelopment. By finally not striving for the approval of the masses who will have a shallow and fleeting opinion of him and finally believing in his own capabilities instead of relying on higher beings, Raju undergoes this trope enough to [[spoiler: impress a company and be hired despite his low academic performance.]] And as shown in the present day, he is now a successful and well-off executive. During the search for Rancho, he shows to be more forward in their pursuit, [[spoiler: judging by how he is more than willing to throw Shamaldas' ashes down the drain just to make the real Ranchoddas speak the truth, endures Suhas' anger after inflicting a WardrobeWound in his wedding garb and poses as the groom to get close to the bride, and convinces Pia to run away from her wedding in front of many people, one of them being Virus, his former tormentor.]]

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: At the beginning of the film, Raju is confused about the bet between Chatur and Rancho while Farhan maintains a neutral expression. Turns out that it was due to the PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure was still in effect at the time the bet was made. Only Farhan and Rancho were present at the time Chatur made the bet. It can be assumed that Farhan and Rancho deemed it unimportant enough not to tell Raju once they had reconciled until that moment.

* MommasBoy: Implied, given how he is furious when Farhan [[TheNicknamer calls]] Raju's mother Mother Teresa.

* InSeriesNickname: He is consistently referred as Virus.
* MeaningfulName: His name is derived from the Indian name Virudh which means "opposition". He is TheAntagonist of the chronological timeline.

* UglyGuyHotWife: Chatur is average-looking while his wife, as seen in a photo, is conventionally attractive.

* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Has a major one in the climax when he finally connects the dots that his academic rival who he lambasted just a few seconds ago and the famed scientist and businessman Phunsukh Wangdu [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter are the same person]]. His horror intensifies when Rancho decides to call off the deal, which will lead him to lose his career if he doesn't secure it.]]

A senior during the trio's early years at ICE. Like Rancho, Joy is passionate about machines. He killed himself due to Virus unfairly upholding his doctrine by telling Joy that he will not graduate. His death sparks the enmity between the director and Rancho, who is clearly affected by his senior's death.\\

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler: Realizing that Pia is going through with her marriage with Suhas because she is afraid of people laughing at her decision, Raju asks her if she's going to commit suicide. Not a literal one, but a ''metaphorical'' one in a sense that he asks her if she is willing to throw happiness out of the window and lead an unhappy life despite having a way to be with Rancho again, all because she is afraid of other people's perception of her if she decides to do otherwise.]]

* GrewASpine: His entire CharacterDevelopment. By finally not striving for the approval of the masses who will have a shallow and fleeting opinion of him and finally believing in his own capabilities instead of relying on higher beings, Raju undergoes this trope enough to [[spoiler: impress a company and be hired despite his low academic performance.]] And as shown in the present day, he is now a successful and well-off executive. During the search for Rancho, he shows to be more forward in their pursuit, [[spoiler: judging by how he is more than willing to throw Shamaldas' ashes down the drain just to make the real Ranchoddas speak the truth, endures Suhas' anger after inflicting a WardrobeWound in his wedding garb and poses as the groom to get close to the bride, and convinces Pia to run away from her wedding in front of many people, one of them including Virus, his former tormentor.]]

* MommasBoy: Implied, given how he is furious when Farhan [[TheNicknamer calls]] Raju's mother UsefulNotes/MotherTheresa.

* AnchoredShip: Rancho and Pia love each other despite the odds, but Rancho assuming a false identity prevents him from fully acting on his feelings towards her, which lead her to think that she's being played around.

* GrudgingThankYou: [[spoiler: A downplayed example. Fitting for a prideful character like him, he angrily and tearfully lectures Rancho after he successfully saved Mona and his grandson to answer his student's question back on the first day on ICE... before he awards Rancho his space pen, finally acknowledging him as a worthy student and individual.]]

* SadistTeacher: Disgustingly so. The pressure he placed on his students was so reprehensible, it pushed three men commit suicide, [[spoiler: one of them being his own son and later Raju.]]

* GrewASpine: His entire CharacterDevelopment. By finally not striving for the approval of the masses who will have a shallow and fleeting opinion of him and finally believing in his own capabilities instead of relying on higher beings, Raju undergoes this trope enough to [[spoiler: impress a company and be hired despite his low academic performance.]] And as shown in the present day, he is now a successful and well-off executive. During the search for Rancho, he shows to be more forward in their pursuit, [[spoiler: judging by how he is more than willing to throw Shamaldas' ashes down to the drain just to make the real Ranchoddas speak the truth, endures Suhas' anger after inflicting a WardrobeWound in his wedding garb and poses as the groom to get close to the bride, and convinces Pia to run away from her wedding in front of many people, one of them including Virus, his former tormentor.]]

* MommasBoy: Implied, given how he is furious when Farhan [[TheNicknamer calls]] Raju's mother UsefulNotes/MotherTeresa.

* TheHeart: It's clear that Rancho is this to his TrueCompanions and to others who manage to get past through his... [[CloudCuckoolander weirdness]]. If not for his presence and influence, they would either live in fear by throwing away their chances of lifelong happiness in favor of gaining approval from others that will not last long, discard their morals out in order to trample others and gain prestige, or commit suicide from being unable to handle the impossible standards of the society they live in.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: His cameo appearance and his sad fate triggers Rancho's hatred towards ICE's draconian system and Virus' opposition against his student.

* TheAntagonist: In the chronological timeline, he is this.
* TheBet: During the class picturing taking, he sarcastically bets that if either Farhan or Raju, the dead lasts of ICE, gets a job, he will shave his beard. [[spoiler: Which his assistant Govind honors when Raju ends up hired. And still maintains it all the way to the present.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler: At the ending of the chronological timeline, he finally relaxes himself and eases down. This goes after the present-day scenes, in which while he is understandably angry that Farhan and Raju crashed Pia's wedding, he doesn't seem to react violently as before and instead lets Pia go.]]
* ComebackTomorrow: [[spoiler: In a much-delayed answer to Rancho's question about the Fischer Space Pen (why didn't they use a pencil instead), four years later, after Rancho saves the stillborn child of Virus' elder daughter, Virus replies that when a pencil lead breaks in zero gravity on board spaceships, the graphite fragments can get into astronauts' eyes, and cause short circuits in the instruments, citing a major flaw that Rancho ignored. This symbolizes how both Virus and Rancho are not that different in so many ways in regards of upholding their philosophies, that the former can't be wrong all the time just as the latter can't be right all the time.]]
* CompetitionFreak: Farhan's narration describes Virus as the most competitive man he had ever seen. He ''hates'' being on the second place. Even his EstablishingCharacterMoment has him overtaking a member of the staff en route to the dorms while riding his bike. The basis of his adage "Life is a race." centers around being this trope.
* FatalFlaw: '''Pride'''. His increasing hostility towards the trio and how they endure despite the odds is due of the fact that they basically representing how his way of thinking of producing capable individuals devoid of morals and ethics and innovation to learning is wrong.
* FreudianExcuse: At first the reason of his irate attitude is because of his son killed himself because he couldn't get to ICE three times. [[spoiler: However, this trope's subverted as revealed by an angry Pia, was always like this and his son committed suicide because Virus crushed his dreams of becoming a writer, in an effort to evade the truth that even his way of thinking is flawed, especially when Rancho bested him at the final year in his college days and his pride prevents him to realize that. Realizing this is a major part of his later HeelRealization.]]
* GrudgingThankYou: [[spoiler: A downplayed example. Fitting for a prideful character like him, he angrily and tearfully lectures Rancho after he successfully saved Mona and his grandson to answer his student's question back on the first day on ICE... before he awards him his space pen, finally acknowledging him as a worthy student and individual.]]

* PrideBeforeAFall: [[spoiler: How he is defeated philosophically-wise. From Pia delivering a back-to-back TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and CallingTheOldManOut that spread the seeds of his HeelRealization to the eponymous idiots and their colleagues saving Mona and her unborn son that he finally softens up.]]

* TheSocialDarwinist: As expected to someone who believes that life is a race and anyone who lags deserves to be trampled.
* [[TraumaticHaircut Traumatic Shaving]]: [[spoiler: Treats his shaved beard as equivalent of this trope. He laments that he feels naked without his beard.]]
* TheUnfettered: Can be seen this way. Virus means well into creating capable and strong students who will soon contribute to the wider world, but the way he does that is so morally and ethically abhorrent. Although he compromises from time to time, absolutely '''nothing''' gets in his way into achieving his singular goal to keep the society working ''and'' to deny the fact that he is wrong.
* VillainHasAPoint: As much as his methods can be stomach-churning, one can't deny that he has a point in some points, [[HardTruthAesop giving how real life can be demanding the society enough to pressure others into succeeding in order to achieve financial stability and prestige to the society, lest no one will take them seriously.]] Looking at him in optimistic light, Virus looks at the world in realistic lens.
* WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler: During Pia's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and CallingTheManOut tirade against her father, it is revealed that he is this. Him pressuring his son to become an engineer instead of a writer directly caused the latter's suicide. Later, when Mona becomes pregnant with a boy, he consults an astrologist and determines that he will become an engineer. Fortunately, he eventually softens up and decides that his grandson would become anything the latter wants.]]

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Millimeter seems to be close to the trio [[spoiler: enough to accompany them during the trio's expulsion after Rancho and Farhan were caught by Virus for stealing the exam paper in behalf of Raju. And he seems to know Rancho's true identity in the present scenes since he works for him as his assistant.]]
* HeIsAllGrownUp: [[spoiler: He is now an adult when Farhan, Raju, and Pia meet him again at the climax, into the point of not recognizing him at first.]]

* TheReliableOne: His job in ICE. From groceries, doing laundry, finishing journals, copying assignments, he's the guy the students approach to.

Virus' daughter and Mona's younger sister. Pia is a medical student who the trio meets when they crashed at Mona's wedding reception. After overcoming her initial judgment towards Rancho, the two fall in love, despite knowing that it will make her father unhappy and the fact that she's engaged to [[RichBitch Suhas Tandon.]]

* ArrangedMarriage: Implied to be the case with Suhas Tandon. While she initially keeps up with his materialistic and shallow nature, she finally calls him out all the way from the present in favor of Rancho.
* BespectacledCutie: She's very nice to Rancho and wears glasses, before in the present, she is shown to no longer wear them, likely due to her affair with Suhas after Rancho passed college.
* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler: At the climax of the chronological timeline, she dishes this out against her father after confessing that she helped Rancho stole the exam papers that he rigged to make Raju fail. She points out every single flaw of her father's philosophy that lead two men to die, including his own son (Pia's older brother), because he didn't care about their feelings other than their desire for validation, and their adherence to her father's philosophy, no matter how flawed it is. To top it off, she calls their deaths as murder, not suicide, [[YouKilledMyFather implying that she does see her father as her brother's killer]], leaving Virus deeply shaken as Pia storms out.]]
* CoolAunt: [[spoiler: [[BrokenTears Judging by her initial horrified reaction]], she is really looking forward to become the aunt of Mona's son.]]

* DefrostingIceQueen: When Pia meets Rancho, she's initially aloof and standoffish around him when the latter gatecrashes her sister's wedding and calls her fiance an 'ass'. But after seeing how far Rancho selflessly comes for his friends, she eventually begins to have feelings for him. [[spoiler: It's implied her frosty behaviour is due to her brother's suicide and having to keep the actual truth behind it a secret.]]
* HospitalHottie: She is a med student. In the present days, she works in a hospital in Delhi.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler: En route to Ladakh, Farhan realizes that Pia doesn't know about Rancho's ruse. Both he and Raju end up take a step back to go to Manali to grab Pia away from her unhappy wedding.]]
* LoveEpiphany: Has this when she finally sees how Rancho loves his friends and eventually falls in love with him after he deduces why she values her old watch so much.

* MissingMom: Pia's mother wasn't seen in the past day scenes. She wears the watch that her mother gave to her to keep her memory alive.

* SlapSlapKiss: [[spoiler: She really lets it all out when she meets Rancho again in the present times. When Rancho finally reaffirms his love to her, cue a ReunionKiss.]]

Pia's fiance who only cares about money, status, and ostentation.

* {{Jerkass}}: His EstablishingCharacterMoment has his insulting Pia's old watch and calls it a junk, which holds a sentimental value to her. [[spoiler: No wonder she lefts him alone at the altar.]]
* RichBastard: All of his appearances in the film has him loudly flaunting his wealth and status.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Three times and he failed all of them to show Pia proof that he will treat her nothing but a glorified trophy wife. First from Mona's wedding in which Rancho ruins his Italian shoes and accuses the ignorant server for ruining it, next is his explosive reaction when Pia lost the new watch that he bought to her not to while ago and once again insulted her old watch, and finally more than a decade later in which Raju inflicted a WardrobeWound at his wedding clothes to prove Farhan's point across that he isn't a changed man.

It turns out that the man who claims himself to be Ranchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad when Farhan, Raju, and Chatur encounter him at Shimla is actually the real one, with the Rancho that they know was actually an imposter. Despite his initial opposition upon Farhan and Raju call him a fraud, he is subdued and tells them the truth: Chanchad's father sponsored an orphaned servant boy called Chhote (Phunsukh Wangdu), who had demonstrated his intelligence and love of learning, to earn a degree in the real Ranchoddas's name, while he was in London. He appreciates what his employee did for him, and tells Raju and Farhan where to find him.

** While it's so he can avoid doing any schoolwork, he still let his servant borrow his school uniform as a kid so he could let him learn in school.
** Having told Farhan and Raju the truth and now knowing that they are the friends that his servant was speaking of fondly, he willingly gives the duo his impostor's address without fuss to go find him, as well as telling them that their friend misses them both.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Threatens to kill Farhan and Raju when the two accuse him of being a fraud who pocketed Rancho's degree. After a brief GunpointBanter with him losing after the duo has his [[AshesToCrashes father's ashes as hostage]], he finally lays down his weapon [[TheReveal and subsequently spills the truth.]]
* TheSlacker: Lets his servant do all his homework, up to impersonating himself as him to attend at ICE while he attends at London.
* WalkingSpoiler: The reason why this particular entry is unnamed and unmarked. His appearance basically busts out wide open about "Rancho"'s secret to Farhan, Raju, and the viewers. He is '''indeed''' the real Ranchoddas Chanchad and the "Rancho" that they know during the first hour of the film is ''not the real deal''. TheReveal coming from him finally solves one of the film's major mysteries.