3 Idiots Sequel Takes a Big Step: Aamir Khan Says Rajkumar Hirani Will Narrate Final Script “In the Coming Weeks”

The long wait for a 3 Idiots sequel may finally be approaching its end. Aamir Khan has revealed that director Rajkumar Hirani will narrate the final script of the film in the coming weeks — the clearest sign yet that the most beloved campus classic of modern Bollywood is genuinely moving towards production.

Speaking about the project, Aamir confirmed that Hirani is nearly done with the screenplay and that the long-pending narration is now imminent. The update lands after months of drip-fed news about the sequel: back in April 2026, Aamir confirmed the project was in the works, calling it “a beautiful story” set roughly ten years after the original. In September, Hirani told reporters that the casting “will be the same” — Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi — while in June he let slip that the three friends are now married and have children.

For a film that reshaped Bollywood’s relationship with its audience, the expectations are extraordinary. The 2009 original — released by Vidhu Vinod Chopra Productions and Reliance Big Pictures — became a cultural phenomenon, and its trio of Rancho, Farhan and Raju remains among the most quoted friendships in Hindi cinema.

Here is the Filmverse take: a 3 Idiots sequel is the highest-risk, highest-reward move in Bollywood’s sequel playbook. Nostalgia alone guarantees a thunderous opening, but the original’s genius lay in its delicate balance of comedy and an urgent critique of India’s education system — a theme that has only grown more relevant. If Hirani and Aamir get the script right, this could be the defining Hindi film event of its year; if they don’t, it will sit uncomfortably beside the graveyard of legacy sequels that misjudged why the first one worked. The fact that the trio and the director are all returning in their original roles is the strongest possible starting position. The “coming weeks” narration is now the date the industry will circle — because once Aamir green-lights a script, production timelines in the Hirani universe tend to accelerate fast.

Source: Bollywood Hungama

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