No way ... This book was a total junk !! I believe "I Too Had A Love Story - Ravinder Singh" was better than this one. From Chetan Bhagat's book, i have only admired 2 States, it was worth a read. I found 3 Idiots story much better tha 5.Someone even though it was inspired by the latter.
Each time a new book comes out I am worried that it'll be purpose built for a movie. FPS was really good and reflected well on the reality, the movie adaptation was good in its place. But if the 3 idiots was a novel then it would have been thrash.
He did indeed receive 10L for FPS from 3idiots. They just tweaked the story a little too much.