25 December 2009 released comedy-drama 3 Idiots is directed by Rajkumar Hirani and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The story of the film revolves around the friendship of three friends at an engineering college and its story is about the social pressures under an Indian education system. The film stars Amir Khan as Ranchoddas Chanchad, R. Madhavan as Farhan, Sharman Joshi as Raju Rastogi, Kareena Kapoor as Piya, Omi Vaidya as Chatur Ramalingam and Boman Irani as Dr. Viru Sahastrabuddhe.

3 Idiots is the highest-grossing film in its opening weekend in India and had the highest opening day collections for an Indian film til that time, and also held the record for the highest net collections in the first week for a Bollywood film. With ₹459.96 crores this film was the highest-grossing Indian film ever at the time. The film won six Filmfare Awards including Best Film and three National Film Awards including Best Popular Film. Overseas, it won the Grand Prize at Japan's Videoyasan Awards and was nominated for Best Outstanding Foreign Language Film at the Japan Academy Awards and Best Foreign Film at China's Beijing International Film Festival.