Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 03:20.
Mr Funnyguy - It is really quite simple to take a readymade(and popular) story,tear it up here and there and come up with a convincing second story with enough theoritical differences to establish yourself in a press conference.But that in no way takes away the soul of the original story. So all these press conferences might convince folks who see only the movie but haven't read the book. Just like my driver is ga ga over a "Omkara" or "Maqbool", simply because he has never heard of Shakespeare.
See dude, nothing against this blog piece of yours. This is fine and quite well written(though seems a bit like a parody by someone who is quite influenced by Chetan Bhagat himself!). But in case you are defending whatever the makers of "3 Idiots" did to Chetan Bhagat,think again. That was probably the only thing that pulled down the otherwise brilliant movie. This is something we need to learn from the West - Dignity. Remember how profusely Danny Boyle accepted and lavished praise on Swarup's book though he had managed to create a very different screenplay from the original book ? That's class. I never really had any regard for Vidhu Vinod Chopra who never had the balls to venture beyond his adolescent creative premise (Mostly after Parinda. Even "1942..blah blah" was such a narcissistic fare. "Eklavya" was actually terrible,which he probably bribed to be sentfor India's Oscar entry).However coming from Hirani and Aamir Khan, this was a shocker,as both of them are mavericks in their own right. Anyway,the good news is that thanks to the controversy, the sales of both, the book,as well as the movie shot up !
Take care !
Very Funny
Mr Funnyguy - It is really quite simple to take a readymade(and popular) story,tear it up here and there and come up with a convincing second story with enough theoritical differences to establish yourself in a press conference.But that in no way takes away the soul of the original story. So all these press conferences might convince folks who see only the movie but haven't read the book. Just like my driver is ga ga over a "Omkara" or "Maqbool", simply because he has never heard of Shakespeare.
See dude, nothing against this blog piece of yours. This is fine and quite well written(though seems a bit like a parody by someone who is quite influenced by Chetan Bhagat himself!). But in case you are defending whatever the makers of "3 Idiots" did to Chetan Bhagat,think again. That was probably the only thing that pulled down the otherwise brilliant movie. This is something we need to learn from the West - Dignity. Remember how profusely Danny Boyle accepted and lavished praise on Swarup's book though he had managed to create a very different screenplay from the original book ? That's class. I never really had any regard for Vidhu Vinod Chopra who never had the balls to venture beyond his adolescent creative premise (Mostly after Parinda. Even "1942..blah blah" was such a narcissistic fare. "Eklavya" was actually terrible,which he probably bribed to be sentfor India's Oscar entry).However coming from Hirani and Aamir Khan, this was a shocker,as both of them are mavericks in their own right. Anyway,the good news is that thanks to the controversy, the sales of both, the book,as well as the movie shot up !
Take care !