Google CEO Sundar Pichai Mentions '3 Idiots' Scene In Interview; Here's Why

Google CEO Sundari Pichai mentioned the Bollywood blockbuster movie '3 Idiots' in a recent interview.

Responding to a question during the conversation with content creator Varun Mayya, he spoke about a scene in the Hindi flick. A teaser of the interview has been released and this shows Pichai referring to the popular scene.

"I also asked Sundar what he thinks of wrapper startups. Coming soon. Make sure you subscribe to me on YouTube. You don't want to miss this," Varun Mayya captioned the teaser of the interview on Instagram.

In the video, he asks Pichai if he is aware that an entire industry in India is dedicated to helping young Indians crack FAANG interviews. He added, "How do you get out of the competitive exam mindset?"

The Google CEO said, "I think real success comes from understanding things in a deeper way. Almost tempted to go back to movie '3 Idiots' or something like that there is scene there when they ask Aamir Khan the defintion of a motor. You know there's a version describe what a motor is and there is a version actually understand what a motor is,"

For starters, FAANG is a short form of - American tech giants - Meta (Facebook), Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google (Alphabet).

The clip has gone viral and garnered over 28,000 likes.

"Varun is One of the reason I'm a developer today, proud student of Avalon Meta," one user said.

Another netizen commented, "Really wanted to listen to his answer to "what can an engineer in India do to catch up to the west?", it seems like India really needs to speed up the data centres 👏 With the kind of data that is available in India, it's definitely the next big move once we have some of our industry giants working on data centres and GPU farms."

The third user said, "@thevarunmayya Brother, we get to learn a lot from you and today you have proved that we had to do penance for so many years for these days and you are truly our inspiration. I Love You Bahiya."