Its a sad state of affairs on how bollywood works ..... no one gives a second thought about ripping off books, other movies, songs, stories etc etc .....
Its his book .... THE END .... thats the biggest contribution he could make creatively to the movie .... any decent movie that is based on a book has to adapt it, make changes keeping in mind that it is a different medium, but that doesn't take away from the writer al all ....
All over the world, books are adapted into movies. Sometimes the authors are part of the screenplay team, sometimes they are not but nowhere do they say that the movie is "inspired" by the book. that is just plain crap. It is always "based on"
It shows our approach to movies when we think that an actor/actress with a two bit role is more important and integral to the film rather than the book on which the entire movie rests.
As for amir khan, i have no faith in him after he stole the credit for directing taare zameen par. It was the worst kept secret that amir took the credit for directing the film and relegated amol gupte to a creative assistant or something of that sort. i remember ritesh deshmukh actually doing a skit on it in the IIFA. So i have no hope of him standing up for what is right
it is chetan's book and he deserves all the credit and more.
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