Summary/ Main Characters:This is the story of Farhan, Raju and Rancho who are engineering

students at the Imperial College of Engineering, one of the best colleges in India. Farhan wants to become a wildlife photographer, but is pursuing an engineering degree to fulfil his father's wish, whereas Raju needs to improve his family's financial situation, and Rancho studies for the pleasure of building machines. Rancho incurs the wrath of college's dean, Professor Viru Sahastrabuddhe a.k.a. 'Virus' (Boman Irani), by giving creative and unorthodox answers, and later blames the rote-learning mentality of the institution for the suicide of fellow student Joy Lobo. 

The three friends break into Virus' house so Rancho can propose his own marriage to Pia, and then urinate on a door inside the compound. The next day, Virus threatens to expel Raju, who, unable to choose between betraying his friend and disappointing his family, attempts his own death. Virus vows to make the course's final exam as hard as possible so that Raju is unable to graduate. Pia, in reply, tells Rancho of the exam, and he and Farhan steal the examination's questions for Raju who refuses to cheat. Virus sentences them to expulsion; but they earn a reprieve when Virus’ pregnant elder daughter Mona (Mona Singh) goes into labor at the same time. 

A heavy storm and Pia instructs Rancho to deliver the baby in the college common room via Voice over IP, after Rancho restores power using car batteries and a power inverter invented by Rancho. After the baby is apparently stillborn, Rancho resuscitates it; wherefore Virus allows them to take and pass their final exams. Rancho comes first and is awarded Virus's prize pen, retained hitherto for an especially-capable student. rancho went missing after their graduation. Farhan and Raju race to locate Rancho, at his last known address - little knowing the secret that was kept from them all this time cuts electricity,

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Issues in the movie:

• Peer pressure- influence from members of one's peer group.

• Teaching Strategies- refer to methods used to help students learn the

desired course contents and be able to develop achievable goals in the

future.

• Learning Standards- (also called academic standards, content standards

and curricula) are elements of declarative, procedural, schematic, and

strategic knowledge that, as a body, define the specific content of an

educational program.

Moral Values in the movie:

Rancho (Aamir Khan) who plays the role of funny yet brilliant college

adult has showed many lessons to learn through out the movie. I would like

to bring forward my favorite quotes and lessons learned from it:

Don't run behind the success: Don't run behind the success, achieve

excellence first, the success will automatically come looking for you.

Creativity: Be always creative in your answers, work & things you do which

helps you become more capable of your own.

Learning is everywhere: Learning isn't just about being inside a class

room and listening to teachers but its there everywhere. You just need to

grab and grow with it.

Do it with a passion: Are you passionate about what you are doing? then

its for you! You need to love what you do and that is when you can go get

greater things at ease.

Never Race: Don't ever race just because someone else doing it to achieve

something on a timeline. Always try to gain some knowledge and expertise.

Say "All is well": Probably most popular chant words of the year 2009 in India.

Rancho's core mantra of chanting the words to help himself and friends to get rid of the

fear. He says "This will not solve all problems but will surely give guts to face them".

Ignore others: There are naysayers, jealous, stupid, hatred people around us. Ignore

them and move on. Remember? "If you stop and throw a stone at every dog that barks,

you will never reach your destination".

Take a risk: Challenge yourself and take a risk to do something. The worst thing that will

ever happen is "failure", if so, switch over.

Anil Desai

INSIGHTSTo the school and Teachers:

This movie shows how great the impact is a school, instructor or a teacher, environment, and the status of a student, brings to his or her learning.

As I watched the movie I realized that indeed, a school is consists of different learners with diverse life experiences and family background. In recognition to these facts, a teacher must have to use a variety of teaching techniques/ styles in order to cater the needs of the learners. But before a teacher can formulate his or her objectives and methods, he or she should apply assessment or even background checking of the students, for him or her to understand them more.

As teachers we should not limit ourselves to the philosophy of giving high standards to our learners; because it adds pressure to them resulting to short-term learning. We can implant life-long learning to our students by submerging fun and joy to the process. In addition, it was emphasized that personal values and beliefs of a teacher aren’t to be forced to the learners, wanting them to believe you and be like you; we are to guide them and influence them by our actions not just by words. Hence this should not affect the grading system of a school.

To the Learners:

I have pondered that learners are influential just as they are easily influenced by their peers at school, at home and anywhere they may be. Just like how Rancho (the main character) made his friends a better person and life-centered; and how he imparted to them a good lesson in life.

As learners, we should not be afraid to follow what we want in life. We should be firm in choosing the track we want to go to. We are the main character of our own story, and we are the ones who’ll live in it. Though there are times that we should adhere to our parents’ advice, we should also give time for us to hear ourselves; to determine where we can find joy and satisfaction in learning. Poverty isn’t a hindrance to success; defeat it with determination and perseverance. Don’t ever think that you can’t learn just like how others can, for if they can you can as well. In education, there is no such thing as slow or fast learner. It is a matter of how long do you want to learn and learn new things and digest it by applying to the real life situation.

About Life:

Professor Virus’ motto in life says “Life is a race..”

Do you believe in that?

I have come to realize that we should not live to compete. We should live to live. Life is wonderful for us to add pressure to it. Just enjoy life and take it easy. Learning is a life-long process, so do not think that if you don’t run as fast as how they do, you will be left behind. Success in life is not determined who gets first to the top, rather who survived and played it well; who is happy on what they have achieved compared to those who considered themselves established but not truly happy.