I saw the movie again recently following the news of Rajput’s death - it was still so good - and then went back to read the book, The 3 Mistakes of My Life, on which it was based. I had seen the movie when it was released and loved it. While both the book and the movie are no longer new (the book was published in 2008 and the movie was released in 2013), they returned to the spotlight recently, following the sudden death of the actor, Sushant Singh Rajput, who made his debut in the movie as one of the three leads and whose performance in the movie was widely acclaimed. Another example is the movie, Kai Po Che, based on his third book, The 3 Mistakes of My Life. The best example of this is the movie, 3 Idiots, which was based on Chetan Bhagat’s first book, Five Point Someone. A couple of these movies have, in fact, been not just commercially successful, but excellent, with top-of-the-line directing, acting, screenplay, music, editing … everything that goes into making a great movie. (He is an Indian writer writing in English.) The amazing thing about his books is that even though their literary merit is questionable - the writing is very pedestrian, as to be expected from potboilers - they have, by and large, been made into very successful movies. Chetan Bhagat’s books are, by and large - in what is commonly referred to in literary parlance - “potboilers.” He churns them out with regular frequency, and all them, as far as I know, have been made into (Hindi) movies.
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