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Will the real parents of 3 Idiots, please stand up?
Consider this, Rudyard Kipling wrote "The Jungle Book" which was adapted by Disney's to make an animation film. The film had a completely different storyline from the original work of the novel, but Disney's give the story credit to Kipling along with the screenplay writers. Disney's understand the importance of creative work and sensitivities involved. Closer to home we have a raging controversy over story rights of "3 Idiots". Well I have not seen the movie nor have read the novel, hence am fully qualified to give completely independent views on this matter of grave national interest, with an objective to put an end to the controversy. Most of the bloggers and media persons have twisted the controversy to be that of "success has many fathers", but the underlying issue is quite different.
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Writing a screenplay is not a kid's play. The reason why people watch movie many times but read the novel only once defines the importance of the screenplay writers magic. The movies are watched by much larger audience than the novels. Often screenplay writers have to work very hard even though the basic story idea is handed over to them. The medium of expression is different and its demands are daunting. Screenplay writers are like foster parents as against the novelist who is the biological parent.
We Indians have natural tendency to side with the foster parents. This is becoming too subjective a matter for people with scientific bend of mind to take it anymore. Remember the debating session in your school where you were asked to argue "who was Krishna's mother Devaki or Yasoda?" and lengthy references to "Surdas ke pad" to prove the point. Invariably Yasoda-team won the debate and the Devaki-team-members were destined to become obscure blog writers in future lives. The law is lopsided too and will perhaps side with the biological parents. The fact that Mr Vidhu Vinod Chopra had to buy the rights of the novel is sufficient evidence to prove who "original" creator of the story is? Mr Chetan Bhagat wins, QED.
In spite of hard evidence the creators of "3 Idiots" were convinced that they created something new and original to claim the rights. This cannot be a subjective screenplay writer's decision alone. We need better tools to nail this down. I am currently working on "Story Genome Mapping Sequencer" project. Scientific evidence will be based on AmpFLM (Amplified Frame Length Metaphorism) technique commonly used for parental testing. In future, my lab will provide legal assistance to worthy foster parents to retain rights of their adaptations, without having to wrestle doubting thomas (read: media) in full public view.
We Indians have natural tendency to side with the foster parents. This is becoming too subjective a matter for people with scientific bend of mind to take it anymore. Remember the debating session in your school where you were asked to argue "who was Krishna's mother Devaki or Yasoda?" and lengthy references to "Surdas ke pad" to prove the point. Invariably Yasoda-team won the debate and the Devaki-team-members were destined to become obscure blog writers in future lives. The law is lopsided too and will perhaps side with the biological parents. The fact that Mr Vidhu Vinod Chopra had to buy the rights of the novel is sufficient evidence to prove who "original" creator of the story is? Mr Chetan Bhagat wins, QED.
In spite of hard evidence the creators of "3 Idiots" were convinced that they created something new and original to claim the rights. This cannot be a subjective screenplay writer's decision alone. We need better tools to nail this down. I am currently working on "Story Genome Mapping Sequencer" project. Scientific evidence will be based on AmpFLM (Amplified Frame Length Metaphorism) technique commonly used for parental testing. In future, my lab will provide legal assistance to worthy foster parents to retain rights of their adaptations, without having to wrestle doubting thomas (read: media) in full public view.
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