The Coastside Film Society proudly screens “3 Idiots”

The story centers on three friends who meet while attending a prestigious engineering college in India. Indian superstar Aamir Khan plays Rancho, the charismatic leader of the trio. He’s a genius prankster who is not only the top ranked student at the school, but also the bane of school’s administration whose rigid rules he constantly mocks and challenges. He works hard to get his friends to stop worrying so much about their grades and instead to devote more energy into following their dreams (No matter what your parents say, not everyone is destined to be an engineer).

Along the way these three friends crash a few weddings, shove a funeral impossibly out of control, save a few lives, tug a few heart-strings, and solve a deep mystery. There are three musical numbers that left my kids humming for weeks. The film is set in India, so English is spoken in school, and Hindi outside. (subtitles provided).

Gaurav Malani, of the India Times calls the film “One of the most entertaining films of the decade. Director Hirani grabs your attention from scene one with an unconventional opening to the film. Thereafter every single scene written in the screenplay is not just relevant but also has a clear set objective - to be funny or deeply poignant. Which means it either makes you laugh or cry and at some superlative instances do both simultaneously…. After watching the film, you won’t mind being certified as an idiot. If you still don’t approve of the film, you are a certified cynic.”

$8.00, children & students $3.00 Rated PG 13 – for a drinking scene, college high jinks, and occasional crude words spoken in Hindi. Running time: 160 minutes.

More info on the Web: www.hmbfilm.org