Not surprisingly, theater audiences are laughing by this point. Obviously J P was blind to the glaring holes in the script. The director believes that every decision he makes is 100 percent correct. And a film that could have been great ends up as an 'also ran'. But J P isn't alone.
All directors suffer from temporary myopia.
When you standing right next to the canvas, it's impossible to see the bigger picture. And every director, from the mightiest to the insignificant, believes that he is making another Sholay . Earlier this year, Steven Spielberg said in an interview that his biggest problem was that there weren't enough people who said no to him. That is exactly what every director needs-someone both insightful and brutal. A person who can, to steal a line from Nancy Reagan, 'Just Say No'.