Trivia / 3 Idiots

• Acting in the Dark: The crowd of extras during the Teacher’s Day speech were not given any context for what Chatur would say, and their laughter was genuine every time they recorded it.
• All-Star Cast: Surprisingly for a Bollywood film, the Japanese dub sports a healthy cast of many well-known Anime voice actors, including Hiroaki Hirata (Rancho), Wataru Takagi (Farhan), Shinji Kawada (Raju), Kikuko Inoue (Pia) and Tesshō Genda (Viru). It's worth mentioning here, as Bollywood films aren't exactly popular in Japan and many of them weren't imported there, much less dubbed. Values Resonance might have a hand in this trope.
• The Danza: Mona Sahastrabuddhe is played by Mona Singh.
• Dawson Casting: A particularly egregious example in the flashback scenes in which all of the characters were on their late teens to early twenties, being college students. At the time of filming, Aamir Khan (Rancho) was 43 and R. Madhavan (Farhan) was 38. The trope still applies during the present day scenes, as their characters are supposed to be in their early thirties. Sharman Joshi (Raju) and Kareena Kapoor (Pia) were both in their late twenties. Only Omi Vaidya (Chatur), comes close to his college age at 26. He's even given a receding hairline in the present-day segments to look older than his actual age.
• Enforced Method Acting: According to Omi Vaidya, the scene where Chatur confronts Rancho and Farhan about changing his speech demanded a level of anger in his performance that he did not feel he could muster because the actors were too nice to even pretend to be mad at, so he effectively isolated himself in a hotel room for three days and told everyone to not call him so he could pretend that they were purposefully excluding him whenever he heard about their group activities, building up an imaginary resentment against them for that scene. Thankfully, the scene was recorded on his 28th birthday and the crew brought a cake up to him when they were done shooting.
• Referenced by...: In Episode 12 of the Gamers! (2015) anime, some background events during the prologue parody The Prince of Tennis, Case Closed, and even the poster◊ for 3 Idiots.
• Throw It In!: Most of Chatur’s mispronunciations of Hindi words are genuine mispronunciations because his actor Omi Vaidya similarly lacks fluency in the Hindi language compared to Marathi, and he needed his lines to be written in Roman letters. According to him, the crew had the rule, “Nobody correct this man, or you’re fired,” because they found it so funny.

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