3 Idiotas

3 Idiotas is a 2017 Mexican coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Carlos Bolado and produced by Miguel Mier, Bernardo Rugama and Jimena Rodríguez. The film is a remake of the 2009 Hindi-language Indian film 3 Idiots which was itself a loose adaptation of the 2004 Chetan Bhagat novel, Five Point Someone.^[1][2] The film stars Alfonso Dosal, Christian Vázquez, German Valdez and Martha Higareda.^[3]

3 Idiotas
Directed by	Carlos Bolado
Screenplay by	Antonio Abascal
Story by	Abhijat Joshi Rajkumar Hirani
Based on	3 Idiots by Rajkumar Hirani Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat
Produced by	Miguel Mier Bernardo Rugama Jimena Rodríguez
Starring	Alfonso Dosal Christian Vázquez Germán Valdés III Martha Higareda
Cinematography	Javier Morón
Edited by	Perla Carpio
Music by	Alvaro Arce Urroz
Production companies	Greenlight Productions Neverending Media BoBo Producciones Credix Cutting Edge EFICINE.
Distributed by	Lionsgate Pantelion Films
Release date	31 March 2017 (2017-03-31)
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish
Box office	US$7.9 million

Plot

Two nerdy friends and their arch rival from college embark on an adventure determined to find a college roommate who disappeared without a trace on graduation day.

Cast

• Alfonso Dosal as Pancho
• Christian Vázquez as Felipe
• Germán Valdés III as Beto
• Martha Higareda as Mariana
• Vadhir Derbez as Isidoro
• Sebastián Zurita as Emiliano
• Paulina Dávila as Diana
• Enrique Singer as Don Diego
• Rodrigo Murray as Escalona

Release

3 Idiotas was released on March 31, 2017 by Lionsgate and its Pantelion Films banner.

Box office

The film was a box office hit in Mexico, selling more than 3 million tickets and becoming the highest-grossing domestic film during the first half of 2017.^[4] It grossed MX$125.6 million (US$6.64 million) in Mexico, making it the second highest-grossing Mexican film of 2017 below Do It Like an Hombre.^[5]

Overseas, the film grossed US$1,249,233 in the United States and Canada, and US$43,077 in Bolivia,^[6] for a worldwide total of US$7,932,310.