3 IDIOTS : Vidhu, Raju and Aamir
Every Fire is followed by smoke, and that's what is happenning with 3 Idiots, the movie which has set up the bollywood or the Hindi Film industry on fire. The smoke is coming out of the writer Chetan Bhagat, whose popular novel Five Point Someone ( FPS) is the inspiration for this movie. But ironically the renowned writer wasn't duly credited by Raj Kumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra for the blockbuster 3 idiots. This is something for which our Hindi Film industry is famous (rather infamous). It's very difficult to understand why people who are already rich, famous and having goodwill do all such ill things despite getting all the rewards and recognition for their efforts. Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu vinod Chopra and Aamir Khan, all three of them are big names in Indian Film industry. Such cheating is not expected from them. But they have done it. Millions of people like me have read Chetan Bhagat's FPS , liked it, read it again and loved it. This is the novel which has made Chetan a YOUTH ICON and all his succeeding novels the bestsellers. He has the capability of turning the characters in the book into real ones in front of you. And that is the reason, we have seen the movie 3 idiots long back when we read FPS. Now as the makers of 3 idiots, Vidhu, Raju and Aamir are claiming that it is an original story and only ‘2%-5% inspired by the book’, then i feel really sorry to say that Vidhu, Raju and Aamir are really the 3 idiots who are spoiling the success of their film.
Of course when a book is made into a film, there are some changes made in the film taking the cinematic liberty, but that doesn't mean that if you make 30-40% change in the story then the story belongs to You. This can only be called as plagiarism, nothing else.
I hope that at least now, these 3 idiots should listen to their inner voice and thank Chetan in the credits for his story. As who have read the book and seen the movie find the film be an adaptation of Five Point Someone. The setting, characters, plotline, dramatic twists and turns, one-liners, theme, message – almost all aspects that make-up story are from FPS” . So the obvious question that comes in the mind of every FPS reader is that how much 3 idiots would have lost if they had credited the original writer for the film?
Atul Thakare
atulrt@gmail.com
Of course when a book is made into a film, there are some changes made in the film taking the cinematic liberty, but that doesn't mean that if you make 30-40% change in the story then the story belongs to You. This can only be called as plagiarism, nothing else.
I hope that at least now, these 3 idiots should listen to their inner voice and thank Chetan in the credits for his story. As who have read the book and seen the movie find the film be an adaptation of Five Point Someone. The setting, characters, plotline, dramatic twists and turns, one-liners, theme, message – almost all aspects that make-up story are from FPS” . So the obvious question that comes in the mind of every FPS reader is that how much 3 idiots would have lost if they had credited the original writer for the film?
Atul Thakare
atulrt@gmail.com
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