Actor R Madhavan and author Chetan Bhagat recently got into a war of words on Twitter during which the former said he found his hit film ‘3 Idiots’ better than ‘Five Point Someone’– Chetan’s book on which the movie was based.
Although the recent Twitter feud appeared to be a promotional stint by the two for their recently released show ‘Decoupled’, various members of the Twitterati seem to have enjoyed it.
Chetan plays himself in ‘Decoupled’, which stars Madhavan as a misanthropic writer–the second-bestselling author in India.
The Twitter war started when the official account of Netflix India posted, “Let’s settle this. Books > Movies or Movies > Books?”. Chetan replied by writing, “My books, and the movies based on them,” adding a red-heart emoticon with it.
To his tweet, Madhavan replied “Hey Chetan…My bias is movies > books,” to which the 47-year-old author wrote, “Have you ever heard anyone ever say the movie is better than the book?”
Madhavan replied, “YES! 3 Idiots,” while adding laughing emoticons.
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