OMG: Chetan Bhagat is not a part of his own work, Half Girlfriend

Chetan Bhagat, the popular writer, has attracted a lot of people from India as well overseas. He is perhaps one of the first India writers to have cinematic versions of his bestselling book.  After 2 states it’s Half Girlfriend.

But this time there’s a twist, Mohit Suri has ‘eliminated’ the novelist Chetan Bhagat who was a key character in the 2014 eponymous novel.

When Mohit Suri was asked about this, he said, “Chetan asked me to make the movie, maybe because he thought I was the right person to convert the book to a film. (However) I have edited the narrator [Chetan] from my story. So, basically, I have cut Chetan’s role from the film.”

Mohit Suri will make his television debut as a judge on the upcoming season of dance reality show, Nach Baliye. It is interesting to know that Chetan Bhagat was supportive enough towards the director. He gave him space to script and direct the film on his own terms. Although it is a bizarre thing to leave the author out of his own book, we sure hope Bhagat is okay with it.

Discussing further changes that he has made to the film starring Shraddha Kapoor and Arjun Kapoor, the director adds, “The book was written in English, but the hero cannot converse in that language, so that has been changed. There was also some sexual abuse backstory to Shraddha’s character that I have tweaked.” What is her story then? “She has a dark past. But the story will concentrate more on the love [romantic equation with Arjun’s character],”