This actor gave Hindi cinema's first Rs 200-crore grosser, worked with Saif Ali Khan in a classic, and then quit Bollywood

Remember Millimeter from Rajkumar Hirani's '3 idiots'? The name of the actor is Rahul Kumar, who was also seen with Saif Ali Khan in 'Omkara' and Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra-starrer 'Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar'.

It has been a while since he was seen in a Hindi film. He has acted in a couple of advertisements though.

3 idiots is a massively successful film that stars Aamir Khan, Boman Irani, Kareena Kapoor, R. Madhavan, and Sharman Joshi. Khan essayed the role of Rancho who later turns out to be Phunsuk Wangdoo. Wangdoo was a character that was inspired by real-life engineer Sonam Wangchuk.

However, while speaking to The Lallantop recently, he said he couldn’t connect with the character in the film. “What do I say but somebody else told me to say that I am a lot more beautiful than the character shown in the film. So how do I attach myself with that character?,” Sonam said.

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On the film

I have watched the film. It was a nice film with a good message.

“Just imagine if Lata Mangeshkar’s father had told her she can’t sing or Sachin Tendulkar was forbidden from playing cricket. Where would they be?”  Aamir Khan ‘s elementary wisdom runs across this extraordinarily thoughtful treatise on our breached education system, with the dulcet directness of a Lata melody, and the irreproachable triumph of Tendulkar’s sixers.

3 Idiots  is first and foremost a tremendously entertaining piece of cinema. The ‘boys-will-have-fun’ atmosphere on an engineering campus, is shot with the devious humour and warmth of a joke that has not lost its punch even after years of re-telling.Some things never change in a straitjacketed society like ours.

And really, when Hirani with enormous help from his co-writer Abhijat Joshi, sets down to criticize the glaring anomalies in our education system, we are compelled to wonder for a few seconds-and just for that bit of cynical time-freeze-if flogging the sacred cows of our institutionalized system of governance in cinema, is not just an excuse to pull out all stops and let the young heroes have all the fun that their more disciplined counterparts in schedule-driven colleges deny themselves.