Once again we witness a phenomenon which is by no account new. Its an age old conflict...not between talents.. but between egos...pure simple egos..which makes idiots:-) out of intelligent people.
The people involved in the spat are all great talents with great egos.Unfortunately ego is known to grow faster than talent and thats when problems such as these emerge.
The creative team of idiots does not want to share credit with Chetan Bhagat beyond what they deem necessary, and Chetan Bhagat who actually gave birth to the concept is not ready to hand over the baby to the legal surrogate adopters....Actually what both are doing is trying to tell the world that one is more talented than the other and hence, do not want to share the credit. I wonder, wouldn't it have been easy on all concerned to give due credit to the original creator as well as screenplay writer. The story is indeed Chetan Bhagat's....however the situations and the creativity are the screenplayer's, equally important ....What's the issue?
Before this controversy broke out, this creative team, in my eyes(its a personal opinion of a fan) was a sensitive one which thought of great phenomenons like Gandhigiri. Today the talent and success perhaps have gone up but perhaps the sensitivity has gone down. Same for Chetan Bhagat. If everybody thought like him then its Thomas Edison alone and no one else who deserves credit for all the subsequent innovations made with light and electricity. Idiotic indeed..pun intented.
The issue is EGOS! We do not want to share, we like to possess each and every word that we write or even think of. It blinds us. Proven over time, sharing credit has always made a person seem big hearted and generous and yet when ego rules, the same sharing appears to us to be taking away our credit!!!...Subsequent actions, when we assume that we are protecting our rights, are actually the ones which actually make small hearted idiots out of us...
As for Amir Khan saying that Chetan Bhagat is trying to take credit away from someone lesser known than him...Strange logic!! Perhaps, then it is time for Amir Khan to stop acting and let other lesser known actors get a chance for limelight..Weird logic, isn't it? The issue here is not how popular one is but rather MERIT!....
A fruit seller needs as much credit for bringing fruit to people as the gardener who planted the seed, both need to give each other due respect.... I wish they would not be so miserly with their appreciation for each other...true respect doesnot cost anything(in most of the cases at least) and goes a long way in ways far more intangible than contracts or awards are tangible!
Sunday, 3 January 2010
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