Chetan Bhagat accuses film producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra of ‘bullying’ him, ‘almost driving to suicide’

Tribune Web Desk
Chandigarh, July 21

Writer Chetan Bhagat set Twitter raging on Tuesday as he accused Bollywood producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra of “bullying him and almost driving him to suicide” over a controversy related to blockbuster ‘3 Idiots’.

Vidhu Vinod Chopra produced the 2009 film that had Aamir Khan, Madhavan and Sharman Joshi starring as titular ‘3 Idiots’. The blockbuster Chetan Bhagat claims was on his book ‘Five Point Someone’

In a tweet targeting Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s wife Anupama Chopra, who is a film critic, Chetan Bhagat wrote he was “bullied”, “denied credit for the storyline” and almost “driven to suicide” by her husband.

Ma’am, when your husband publicly bullied me, shamelessly collected all the best story awards, tried denying me credit for my story and drove me close to suicide, and you just watched, where was your discourse? https://t.co/CeVDT2oq47

— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) July 21, 2020

The sparring began as Anupama reacted to Chetan Bhagat’s tweet urging critics not to “write rubbish” about late actor Sushant Rajput’s last film. “Each time you think the discourse can’t get lower, it does!” she wrote.

To this, Bhagat responded: “Ma’am, when your husband publicly bullied me, shamelessly collected best story awards, tried denying me credit for my story and drove me close to suicide, and you just watched, where was your discourse?”

Each time you think the discourse can’t get lower, it does! https://t.co/yhkBUd8VSQ

— Anupama Chopra (@anupamachopra) July 21, 2020