3 Idiots

Directed by	Rajkumar Hirani
Produced by	Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Written by	Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani
Based on	Five Point Someone – What not to do at IIT! by Chetan Bhagat
Starring	Aamir Khan R. Madhavan Sharman Joshi Kareena Kapoor Khan Boman Irani Omi Vaidya
Narrated by	R. Madhavan
Music by	Shantanu Moitra
Production company	Vinod Chopra Films, Dimension Films
Distributed by	Reliance Entertainment, Miramax
Release dates	25 December 2009
Running time	171 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹55 crore (equivalent to ₹97 crore or US$14 million in 2016)
Box office	est. ₹392 crore (equivalent to ₹690 crore or US$100 million in 2016)

3 Idiots is a 2009 Indian coming of age comedy-drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Rajkumar Hirani and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Abhijat Joshi wrote the screenplay. It was loosely adapted from the novel Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat. The film stars Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Omi Vaidya, Parikshit Sahni and Boman Irani.

Upon release, the film was the highest-grossing film in its opening weekend in India and had the highest opening day collections for an Indian film up until that point. It also held the record for the highest net collections in the first week for a Bollywood film. It also became one of the few Indian films to become successful in East Asian markets such as China, eventually bringing its overseas total to more than US$65 million at the time—the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time in overseas markets, before being overtaken by Chennai Express in 2013.

The film is distinctive for featuring real inventions by little-known people in India's backyards. The brains behind the innovations were Remya Jose, a student from Kerala, who created the exercise-bicycle/washing-machine; Mohammad Idris, a barber from Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh, who invented a bicycle-powered horse clipper; and Jahangir Painter, a painter from Maharashtra, who made the scooter-powered flour mill. This film was remade in Tamil as Nanban (2012) which also received critical praise and commercial success. It has also been announced that there will be a Chinese remake of the film produced by Stephen Chow and that there are plans for a Hollywood remake produced in the United States. A Telugu remake was planned despite Nanban having a Telugu dubbed version titled Snehitudu.