"Three Idiots" - Be Courteous to "Five Point Someone"
The last week of 2009 saw the biggest blockbuster Hindi movie in the name of Three Idiots.
The movie stars Aamir Khan, R Madhvan and Sharman Joshi in lead roles tells the story of three students while they are in an Engineering College and beyond.
The movie is a runaway hit in the Indian and overseas market with everyone sharing the credit for the hit.
Now the usual controversy game in Indian Film Industry has started, with the allegations made by Chetan Bhagat as producers' not giving proper credit to him.
According to him the movie is an exact replica of his novel Five Point Someone, the rights of which he sold to the makers' of Three Idiots on the condition of giving him credit in the film which he not apparently got in the flick.
The Producer and Director claim that after buying the legal rights for the novel they have completely altered it and have re-written the script to make it apt for the moviegoers.
Thus, the controversy has begun and there is a usual blame game going on for quite some time from both the sides.
It is appalling for people like me to witness such an incident from some of the most eminent factions of movie fraternity and a best-selling author who is also a youth icon of India Inc.
Both the movie and novel explores the lives of student in the premier Engineering Colleges of India and how they suffer at the hands of Indian education system.
Both raise pertinent questions with the movie making an attempt to answer them as well.
The movie has its own moments which are quite different from the original novel and also giving some important twist in the end.
In a bid to prove their originality in script writing of the movie the makers' have also put down the differences between movie and the novel on their website.
But this fact cannot be denied by anyone that Five Point Someone is the heart of the movie.
It forms the basic plot structure of the movie on which all the similarities and differences stand.
Indeed, Three Idiots is the best adaptation possible of the novel but in the absence of it there would have been no movie.
All the newly added sequences and twists have been inherited from the basic plot which is the novel itself and has a setting of an Engineering college and the life of three students' there.
Thus the makers' of Three Idiots must be courteous to their original source Five Point Someone from where the journey of the movie started.
They should have given the credit to the author in the opening of the movie and it would have done no harm to the business of the movie and would not have taken the credit from Abhijat Joshi- the script writer for the movie.
It would just have been nice to acknowledge the novelist for providing them the impetus for their movie.
Although they have the legal rights to use or alter the script to suit their own way but acknowledging someone is always considered a good gesture.
Keeping in mind that both the makers' and the novelist are a well known public figure this controversy could have been easily avoided.
The public is only witnessing a series of defamatory allegations made in front of the media which seems to be hungry for a controversy like this.
It should have been avoided, not for the sake of personal ego but for the sake of two classics of modern times which are Three Idiots and Five Point Someone in this case.
The movie stars Aamir Khan, R Madhvan and Sharman Joshi in lead roles tells the story of three students while they are in an Engineering College and beyond.
The movie is a runaway hit in the Indian and overseas market with everyone sharing the credit for the hit.
Now the usual controversy game in Indian Film Industry has started, with the allegations made by Chetan Bhagat as producers' not giving proper credit to him.
According to him the movie is an exact replica of his novel Five Point Someone, the rights of which he sold to the makers' of Three Idiots on the condition of giving him credit in the film which he not apparently got in the flick.
The Producer and Director claim that after buying the legal rights for the novel they have completely altered it and have re-written the script to make it apt for the moviegoers.
Thus, the controversy has begun and there is a usual blame game going on for quite some time from both the sides.
It is appalling for people like me to witness such an incident from some of the most eminent factions of movie fraternity and a best-selling author who is also a youth icon of India Inc.
Both the movie and novel explores the lives of student in the premier Engineering Colleges of India and how they suffer at the hands of Indian education system.
Both raise pertinent questions with the movie making an attempt to answer them as well.
The movie has its own moments which are quite different from the original novel and also giving some important twist in the end.
In a bid to prove their originality in script writing of the movie the makers' have also put down the differences between movie and the novel on their website.
But this fact cannot be denied by anyone that Five Point Someone is the heart of the movie.
It forms the basic plot structure of the movie on which all the similarities and differences stand.
Indeed, Three Idiots is the best adaptation possible of the novel but in the absence of it there would have been no movie.
All the newly added sequences and twists have been inherited from the basic plot which is the novel itself and has a setting of an Engineering college and the life of three students' there.
Thus the makers' of Three Idiots must be courteous to their original source Five Point Someone from where the journey of the movie started.
They should have given the credit to the author in the opening of the movie and it would have done no harm to the business of the movie and would not have taken the credit from Abhijat Joshi- the script writer for the movie.
It would just have been nice to acknowledge the novelist for providing them the impetus for their movie.
Although they have the legal rights to use or alter the script to suit their own way but acknowledging someone is always considered a good gesture.
Keeping in mind that both the makers' and the novelist are a well known public figure this controversy could have been easily avoided.
The public is only witnessing a series of defamatory allegations made in front of the media which seems to be hungry for a controversy like this.
It should have been avoided, not for the sake of personal ego but for the sake of two classics of modern times which are Three Idiots and Five Point Someone in this case.
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