![]() ![]() Normally a Bollywood film would run in select multiplexes in Hong Kong for 1-2 weeks. The film locally known as san geshagua - literally three idiots - has done astoundingly well in China and Hong Kong where it's been running houseful in cinemas for an unusually long five weeks. ![]() One of the first foreign films to seep through the bamboo curtain, the song held sway across the middle kingdom for more than half a century, until All izz well, the title song from Aamir Khan's 3 Idiots caught the modern hamburger-chomping, gizmoguzzling , Tell any thirty plus, green tea-spinning, traffic-snarled taxi driver across China that you are from India and he will almost spontaneously belt out AwaraHoon Mein - a 1950's Raj Kapoor Bollywood medley that had the entire nation gyrating to his tunes. The Chinese identify with the film's theme of breaking way from the unimaginative education system ![]()
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