Hit, flop, or boycotted, Aamir Khan's Laal Singh Chaddha is a milestone

From being "inspired" and making unauthorised remakes to spending a decade to secure rights to remake a Hollywood classic like Forrest Gump, Bollywood is cleaning up its act

Warning: This could be an apocryphal story.

In his younger, more innocent days, a male Hindi movie star once braced himself with eager anticipation for a story narration with a director known for making box office hits. The narration was to be at the star's home, and he prepared meticulously for it, creating the right seating arrangement and ambient lighting. He was ready to settle in for a pulsating few hours.

It did not quite turn out that way. The director, when he arrived, did not waste much time on a preamble. He took out two DVDs from his bag