T here is no such thing as a graceful loser in Bollywood. For two years, you sweat each cut, sound and frame of your film. In three hours, the audience declares it a 'dabba picture' and walks away.
Failure cuts like knife to the bone.
It makes you hypersensitive and completely irrational. Witness the dream team of producers Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla and Aziz Mirza. The film and the public's lukewarm response to it have started a heated debate in the media. The critics were mostly unkind and Khan, in post-release interviews, has accused them of playing God. Meanwhile the dream team is urgently working its contacts in the press.