A Letter to Aamir!!

Thanks a ton Mr Aamir for giving us a laughing-our-heart-out kinda enjoyment through your latest flick – ‘3 Idiots’. You did it, yet again! You stamped your authority on millions-of-your-established fans. You won many new ones too.

However, in the process, you lost your credibility. Credibility of being called 'Mr Perfectionist'. Credibility - in front of handful of readers as well as movie viewers like me. Yes, you are losing credibility because of not giving credit to a person who inspired the movie. Chetan - the man with the original idea, the creator of a simple book which game me, and I am sure for most of others, a new perspective of spending college life.

No one is denying here about the credit for Abhijat, Raju and everyone who effortlesly worked for almost 3 years and contributed to this magnificant piece of cinema. However, It is very unfair to claim (read misguide) that the movie is only 2-5% based on the book. Atleast not in front of whom who've read FPS.

And even if somehow I consent my mind of your claim that you didn’t read FPS (which is very contrary given your track record of indulging yourself so-much in a role) then how could you be so confident and make a statement like ‘The movie’s starting point is the book ...’? And then you went on saying (to Chetan) that ‘Don’t bother because the script is very different from the book…’. Ofcourse, it’ll bother. Atleast to the person who gave the birth of new ideas, new ways to look into education system, new ways to live life.

I can’t measure distress and anguish the writer went through after he and his family waited through nearly 3 hours to the very end. They saw his name was zooming past in a jiffy in the very end when almost the entire theatre became empty (Read this ..). Although it was shear entertainment for rest of the crowd in the move hall but, for him, it must have been like everyone was laughing only on him – for expecting a credit note in the beginning (too much Hollywood dosed poor guy!), for expecting a respect of the original work (too much from a Bollywood dosed fellow, poor guy!).

Now on, for me and on behalf of no one, you are an actor by all means but an artist..well I am not sure by any means.