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Synopsis.
Farhan Qureshi (R. Madhavan), Raju Rastogi (Sharman Joshi), and
Rancchoddas "Rancho" Shyamaldas Chanchad (Aamir Khan) are three
engineering students who share a room in a hostel at the Imperial
College of Engineering, one of the best colleges in India. While Farhan
and Raju are average students from modest backgrounds, Rancho is from a
rich family. Farhan wants to become a wildlife photographer, but has
joined engineering college to fulfil his father's wish. Raju on the
other hand wants to uplift his family fortunes. Rancho is a wealthy
genius who studies for the sheer joy of it. However, Rancho's passion is
for knowledge and taking apart and building machines rather than the
conventional obsession of the other students with exam ranks. With his
different approach Rancho incurs the wrath of dean of college, Professor
Viru Sahastrabudhhe (ViruS) (Boman Irani). Rancho irritates his
lecturers by giving creative and unorthodox answers, and confronts ViruS
after fellow student Joy Lobo hangs himself in his dormitory room. Joy
had requested an extension on his major project on compassionate
groundshis father had suffered a strokebut ViruS refused, saying that he
himself was completely unmoved by his own son's accidental death after
being hit by a train. Rancho denounces the rat race, dog-eat-dog,
mindless rote learning mentality of the institution, blaming it for
Lobo's death.
Threatened by Rancho's talent and free spirit,
ViruS labels him an "idiot" and attempts on a number of occasions to
destroy his friendship with Farhan and Raju, warning them and their
parents to steer clear of Rancho. In contrast, ViruS model student is
Chatur Ramalingam or "Silencer", (Omi Vaidya) who sees a high rank at
the prestigious college as his ticket to higher social status, corporate
power, and therefore wealth. Chatur conforms to the expectations of the
system. Rancho humiliates Chatur, who is awarded the honour of making a
speech at an award ceremony, by substituting obscenities into the text,
which has been written by the librarian. As expected, Chatur mindlessly
memorises the speech, without noticing that anything is amiss, partly
aided by his lack of knowledge on Hindi. His speech becomes the laughing
stock of the audience, infuriating the authorities in the process.
Meanwhile,
Rancho also falls in love with ViruS' medical student daughter Pia
(Kareena Kapoor) when he, Raju and Farhan crash her sister's wedding
banquet in order to get a free meal, in the process further infuriating
ViruS.
Meanwhile, the three students continue to anger ViruS,
although Rancho continues to come first in every exam, while Chatur is
always second, and Farhan and Raju are inevitably in the last two
positions. The tensions come to a head when the three friends, who are
already drunk, break into ViruS's house at night to allow Rancho to
propose to Pia, and then urinate on a door inside the compound before
running away when ViruS senses intruders. The next day, ViruS threatens
to expel Raju lest he talks on the other two. Unable to choose between
betraying his friend or letting down his family, Raju jumps out of the
3rd floor window and lands on a courtyard, but after extensive care from
Pia and his roommates, awakes from a coma.
The experience has
changed Farhan and Raju, and they adopt Rancho's outlook. Farhan decides
to pursue his love of photography, while Raju takes an unexpected
approach for an interview for a corporate job. He attends in plaster and
a wheelchair and gives a series of non-conformal and frank answers.
However, ViruS is unsympathetic and vows to make the final exam as hard
as possible so that Raju is unable to graduate. Pia hears him and
angrily confronts him, and when ViruS gives the same ruthless reply he
gives to his students, she denounces him in the same way that Rancho did
over the suicide of Lobo. Pia reveals that Viru's son and her brother
was not killed in an accident but committed suicide in front of a train
and left a letter because ViruS had forced him to pursue a career in
engineering over his love for literature; ViruS always mentioned that he
unsympathetically failed his son on the ICE entrance exams over and
over to every new intake of ICE students. After this, Pia walks out on
the family home, and takes ViruS's spare keys with her. She tells Rancho
of the exam, and he and Farhan break into ViruS's office and steals the
exam and give it to Raju, who with his new-found attitude, is
unconcerned with the prospect of failing, and refuses to cheat and
throws the paper away. However, ViruS catches the trio and expels them
on the spot. However, they earn a reprieve when Viru's pregnant elder
daughter Mona (Mona Singh) goes into labour at the same time. A heavy
storm cuts all power and traffic, and Pia is still in self-imposed
exile, so she instructs Rancho to deliver the baby in the college common
room via VOIP, after Rancho restores power using car batteries and a
power inverter that Rancho had dreamed up and ViruS had mocked. Rancho
then delivers the baby with the help of a cobbled-together Vacuum
extractor.
After the baby is apparently stillborn, Rancho
resuscitates it. ViruS reconciles with Rancho and his friends and allows
them to take their final exams and they graduate. Rancho comes first
and is awarded ViruS's pen, which the professor had been keeping for
decades before finding a brilliant enough student to gift it to.
Their
story is framed as intermittent flashbacks from the present day, ten
years after Chatur vowed revenge on Rancho for embarrassing him at the
speech night and promised to become more successful than Rancho a decade
later. Having lost contact with Rancho, who disappeared during the
graduation party and went into seclusion, Raju and Farhan begin a
journey to find him. They are joined by Chatur, now a wealthy and
successful businessman, who joins them, brazenly confident that he has
surpassed Rancho. Chatur is also looking to seal a deal with a famous
scientist and prospective business associate named Phunsukh Wangdu.
Chatur sees Wangdu, who has hundreds of patents, as his ticket to
further social prestige. When they find Rancho's house, they walk into
his father's funeral, and find a completely different Rancho Jaaved
Jaffrey. After accusing the new man of stealing their friend's identity
and profiting from his intellect, the host pulls a gun on them, but
Farhan and Raju turn the tables by seizing the father's ashes and
threatening to flush them down the toilet. The householder capitulates
and says that their friend was a destitute servant boy who loved
learning, while he, the real Rancho, was a lazy wealthy child who
disliked study, so the family agreed to let the servant boy study in
Rancho's place instead of labouring. In return, the real Rancho would
pocket the qualifications and the benefits thereof, while the
impersonator would sever all contact with the world and start a new
life. The real Rancho reveals that his impersonator is now a
schoolteacher in Ladakh.
Raju and Farhan then find Pia, and take
her from her wedding day to Suhas by performing the same tricks with his
material possessions, and having Raju turn up to the ceremony disguised
as the groom and eloping with Pia in public. When they arrive in
Ladakh, they see a group of enthusiastic Ladakhi children who are
motivated by love of knowledge. Pia and the fake Rancho rekindle their
love, while Chatur mocks and abuses Rancho the schoolteacher before
walking away. When his friends ask what his real name is, he reveals
that it Phunsukh Wangdu and phones Chatur, who has turned his back, to
turn around and meet his prospective business partner. Chatur is
horrified and falls to his knees, accepts his defeat and continues to
plead his case with Phunsukh to establish the business relationship he
was after.
