Similarities between 3-idiots and 5 Point Somenone

Its was amazing to see the makers of 3-Idiots to receive the awards for best screenplay and story. They thanked everybody but the source of their inspiration...

The two stories, Novel 5 Point Someone and movie 3 idiots, have different beginning and endings but the plot is same in many ways:

1. Five point someone was based on the story of three friends in the top ranking Engineering college of the country.

"3-Idiots" was different from it may be VVC (Vidhu Vinod Chopra) could shed some light on that

2. "What is a Machine" the question and definition of it was straight away picked up from FPS.

If makers of 3-Idiots claim to be original, why didn't they thought of an original question in more than two years they took for writing it.

3. Family Configuration of Alok: No difference in movie and the novel.

This could have been better Mr VVC to portray the pity family conditions of your "original characters"

4. How many sarees in an year are justified ?

The situation and interchange of dialogues between the characters in the movie when Raju mentions his family's financial condition are taken straight from FPS... Hope Mr VVC had read the book before saying SHUT UP to the press reporters.

5. The three friend break in their professor's house to meet his daughter.

The same situation in the movie too, how original?

6. Professor's Son suicide in the film by a train and he didn't knew it util told by his daughter when she shows him the suicide letter of her brother.

Well the makers couldn't think anything better than the same plot in from the novel.

7. One of the three friends does a suicide attempt on account of getting suspended.

The makers of the movie decided there could not be anything more convincing for a suicide attempt for a student. or could he??

8. Stealing of question paper from professor's office in night time, source of keys: prof's daughter.

yawn.... no comments this time considering the level of originality of the film makers.

9. One of the three friends leave his friends to live with the topper of the institute.

Good going Mr VVC

If you the reader of this blog is actually interested in making a decision about who was original among the two then it is a two step process:

Watch the movie

Read The novel- Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat

I did the same and my conclusion:

If there was an award for original story... 3 Idiots would have missed it by a giant leap.