Let us find out how Chetan Bhagat's Five Point Someone and 3 Idiots are different. Aamir Khan has stated that Chetan Bhagat, the famous novelist is trying to seek publicity from 3 Idiots, which has turned to be one of the biggest blockbusters of Bollywood. He has even asked the makers to initiate legal action against the author. Chetan Bhagat has stated that 3 Idiots is 70 per cent Five Point Someone, and would have appreciated if he was given credit in a proper way.

Here are the similarities of 3 Idiots and Five Point Someone:

Neha explains to her dad Cherian how her own brother committed suicide due to unrealistic expectation set by her father. The book delves in depth about Cherian’s regret for his over expectation but the movie has just one scene where Pia tells her dad about her brother’s suicide.

The biggest similarity between 3 Idiots and Five Point Someone is Alok(Raju’s character) which is very similar to that of the movie. The background of Raj(Sharman Joshi)’s house with invalid father and poor mother with a sister of marriageable age and Maruti car as dowry. Everything ditto

The open ragging scene is similar but the treatment is different: In Five Point Someone, a coke bottle is about to be shoved behind the Alok(Raju) and Farhan(Hari) till Ryan rescues them. But in the movie, there is the scene in which the collegians have to strip and dance.

The Paper Stealing Scene: In Five Point Someone, Alok jumps out of the insti roof because they are caught stealing papers. In 3 Idiots, Raju jumps out of the roof because Professor Virus tells him that he will be expelled from college, if he does not admit that Rancho and Farhan are responsible for his(Virus') housebreak. In 3 Idiots, Rancho and Farhan steal papers only to help Alok who has broken his legs. But the paper stealing scene is there

Venkat((Chatur Ramalingam) the studios guy for whom Alok leaves his friends so that he could get good grades is there in 3 Idiots as well. Alok comes back to his friends leaving Chatur when Ryan helps his invalid dad. In 3 Idiots, Rancho and Pia take the dad to the hospital.

Three dialogues similar in 3 Idiots and Five Point Someone:

1. The examiner looked at me as if I had asked for his kidneys

2. I am not drawing the line, I am making it for a change

3. Define machine

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