Best of Luck Mr. Bhatti

Today I met a real victim of Demonetisation. Let us call him Mr. Bhatti. Riding in a taxi in Delhi, a small piece of conversation with Mr. Bhatti made me realize that he is not a stereotypical taxi driver. Something in the first few words made me shift from the back to the front seat and engage Mr. Bhatti in a conversation.

Mr. Bhatti, it seems was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. His dad had a factory in 1979 which supplied AC to DC (Or is it the other way around?) switches to a television company.  Mr. Bhatti enjoyed his childhood and his father owned a hotel in Manali where they would spend their vacations. There was never a need for education for Mr. Bhatti. After Class 12, Mr. Bhatti’s father opened another factory for him. Life was excellent and the Bhatti’s were rolling in money.

But then televisions moved from black and white to colour. Technological advances made the Bhatti’s factory redundant. They had to sell everything to pay off their dues and start back from scratch.

But our friend Mr. Bhatti was made of sterner stuff. He borrowed a small amount and set up an office of a real estate agent. He started with thousands, made lakhs and turned them into crores. He converted himself to a builder and started implementing real estate projects in the NCR region. Life was again back to normal… or so it seemed.

2008 brought a global crisis and a slowdown in the housing market. Mr. Bhatti lost money and was cheated by his partners. He lost everything. Another riches to rags event – another setback

He then started working with a real estate developer. Someone who was once the owner was now an employee. Salaried people will never ever understand this transition. I am amazed at Mr. Bhatti’s resilience. He started cutting down on his expenses. Someone who spent in lakhs per month, was now working at a salary of Rs. 55,000 per month. Try doing that my friends. Try explaining to your wife and children that the outings, shopping, toys, movies, dinners or any other spending which was once normal is now to be curtailed.

Then comes November 2016. It is an open secret that demonetization has hit the real estate sector extremely hard. Mr. Bhatti lost his job, as the real estate company he was working for downsized their costs and in turn their employees

Today  Mr. Bhatti drives a taxi. Some one who  once owned 5 cars, drives a rental taxi. He earns upto Rs. 25,000 per month. He now has to downsize his expenses by more than half. I shudder to think how he is dealing with a 12 year kid’s aspirations. Mr. Bhatti is unhappy with the hand that fate has dealt him. But he is not completely bitter about it. He goes about his work hoping for a better tomorrow.

What Mr. Bhatti is unhappy about is this. His friends who did all kinds of unscrupulous things thrive today, while somebody like him, who hasn’t had any wrongdoings (as he says) is suffering. His aunt is a sanyasi. She says this is the result of the karma of his previous life. He says he is not bothered about previous life or future life. He is bothered about his aspirations, his family his current life. My heart goes out to Mr. Bhatti. That 45 minute ride taught me quite a few lessons.

The first setback in the Bhatti’s life was the development of technology, which took away their living. Is this a sign of things to come? While one may be pardoned for not being so forward looking way back in the 1980s, the situation is different today. The pace of development of technology is rapid and the day is not too far away, when quite a few of our jobs will be taken away by technology. If today we do not anticipate the change, and live in our cocoons and comfort zones, we are idiots.

Secondly, let us not undermine the value of education and upgrading our skills. The one regret Mr. Bhatti has, is that he does not have a qualification. But with a silver spoon in his mouth and factory under his belt, he didn’t need it; or so he thought. Today thinking like this is committing suicide. The quality of education is a different matter, but education is an entry barrier.

I would like to end this by paying a tribute to Mr. Bhatti’s resilience. If growing up in poverty is tough, a riches to rags story is tougher. The mental make up and adjustment required to bear the humiliation from family members, questions from children, accepting and living through failure is not at all easy.

Salute to you Mr. Bhatti. Some day our paths shall cross and I hope you will see better days and we shall have a drink together. Best of luck for a better future.

Sikka Bolta Hain

As a child my grandmother used to tell me fairy tales. These tales were etched in memory and as we grew up we started narrating those same tales to our children. We grew up believing a lot of these stories and treating them as gospel. As we matured, we realized that they are not true, but are an effective way of keeping children engaged and scaring them, so that they behave or eat their food. It was a convenient way of bringing discipline.

As I began my career, I was told that the most important thing is the quality of work you do. Money can come later. So early in my career, I grew up working for a pittance gaining valuable experience. After doing a good job for a few years, I got promoted. My designation got better but the pay hike just about defeated the interest rate on fixed deposits by a whisker. A few years later, when I had done well and it seemed apparent that I would definitely get promoted, I again missed out. Once again my pay hike competed fiercely with the interest rate on fixed deposits. I don’t remember who won.

After waiting for an eternity, I finally decided to change my job. I was under pressure from my family to buy a new house, get married, settle down. Some recruiter tracked me down, offered me a position in a good company, with a decent salary hike. It was decent by my standards, but astronomical by the increment standards set by my own company. I went with my resignation letter to my manager. He was angry, disappointed and made me feel ashamed that I am changing jobs only for money. I felt as if I was stealing some national treasure and nearly took back my resignation.

But the women in my life prevailed. My mom was very clear, “I don’t understand your career, shareer… I only know the size of the pay cheque you get home.” My would be wife threatened to break the alliance. Finally between, two marriages, I knew which one to choose.

As I grew in the organization, I also started telling the same fairy tales to my juniors while doling out increments. I knew they were not true, but my job was to ensure that crumbs which are handed out are made to feel like cookies.

Once I took a job in Saudi Arabia, and on the day of joining the HR manager asked me, what made you take this role? Unabashedly, I said money. I mean one goes to Saudi Arabia for only two reasons – Pilgrimage or Money. I was then asked, ok other than money what interests you in the role? I wanted to say ‘nothing’ , but cooked up some story. I quickly realized that whenever I am planning to change jobs for money, I need to talk about the excitement in the new role, the challenges etc. and relegate money to just a by-product.

But last week has changed everything. Infosys founder Narayana Murthy criticized the Infosys board for hiking the COO’s salary by 60%. He called it bad governance. His contention was how would somebody who gets a 60% hike, justify the measly 6% to 10% increment for the juniors or the worker ants, the ones who collect the honey. His contention is right.

The current CEO of Infosys disagreed with Narayana Murthy’s view. He quoted numbers that the cash component had gone down, while the variable component was up – basically a lot of mumbo jumbo to confuse everyone. What is more important is that he said, that this was required to retain talent.

Really? So what does this do to the fairy tale that motivation, culture, job role, job satisfaction are more important? Ask 95% of the HR managers and they will tell you that money is not the only motivator for the employee. They will use this fairy tale to ensure pay hikes are restricted and in turn splurge money on parties, offsites  etc.  And if money is a motivator for someone who earns in crores annually, why should it not be for the juniors? The HR managers are going to have a lot of answering to do. Temptation is sin. But if someone offers me a 30% jump in my salary, I will be more than willing to give in to temptation.

One thing is now very clear. From today onwards, if I am changing a job for money, I am not going to be apologetic about it. After all as a colleague once said, “Aashirwaad se pet nahin bharta”; “Blessings do not feed a person.”

From now on, fairy tales have to be questioned. After all, Sikka bolta hain. 

Life is a Balance Sheet

This one is emotional… maybe incoherent. Yesterday I had decided to write about Taapsee Pannu. Today, I came to know of an incident which has shaken me…  I am now trying to piece both thoughts together. I hope it makes sense at the end.

Someone I know, has been accused of sexual harassment. I knew him personally more than fifteen years ago and today he is on the run. I have worked with him, gone to his house, his wife was friends with my mother and my wife and today he is hiding from the police. An FIR has been filed against him and there is a manhunt for him. The incident has shaken me. While I don’t want to make a value judgement and pronounce him guilty, I don’t even want to defend him and pronounce his innocence. Only he knows the truth.

Though I am sad for what his family has to go through, I have no sympathies for him. To me life is a game of chess. One needs to be aware of the consequence of every decision one is taking. If they are not, they are foolish. This statement from me may seem arrogant – you know what; it could even come back and bite me. But I am fine with the same.

I wondered how someone so educated can stoop to this level. And then I recollected a recent meeting with a famous author. He said that every successful man has three handles of power – Money, Position and Women. It is a surreal how quickly these words would prove itself when it comes to someone I know personally. There is a line which goes “Vinaashkaale Vipareetbuddhi”. Loosely translated, this means that when you are destined to destruct, you will have a brain fade.

Now about three film personalities. Over the last few months we have been hearing about the verbal table tennis between Kangana Ranaut and Karan Johar. And today I read that Kangana is to star in the next Dharma Productions (Karan Johar’s home production) movie. So was this a publicity stunt? I don’t know. But one thing is true. There is nepotism in the film industry and it is very difficult for someone to break in or get as many breaks as the star children get.

Which brings me to Taapsee Pannu.  While she is a successful actor down south, she made her Bollywood debut in 2013 with the remake of the movie Chashme  Baddoor, with her in the lead role. The movie sank at the box office and Taapsee’s career in Bollywood was going nowhere. Being an outsider also did not help. In 2015, she got a bit role in the Akshay Kumar starrer Baby. This character was liked so much by people that, the producers decided to make an entire movie on her character Shabana. I am sure, Taapsee would have expected the lead role in Chashme Baddoor to catapult her career. Even in her wildest of dreams, she would not have expected the eight minute role in Baby to take her career forward. In between there was a strong role in Pink, which had Amitabh Bachchan in the lead role with three unknown (?) women in the movie. This role got her critical acclaim. Gut tells me, Naam Shabana will be a hit and we shall see more of Taapsee.

What all the above events tell me clearly, is that your script is being written by someone else. They say fact is stranger than fiction, and it is absolutely true. When I look at events in my life over the last 24 months, they are nothing short of a potboiler. Unconnected events, unconnected people come together to form a future for you which you have never thought of. The way these things have come together and contributed to my career is clearly amazing.

Over the last few years, I have told people that I am fatalistic. No that doesn’t mean, I have resigned myself to fate. I still have to do all the hard work and take all the smart decisions that are required. However, the outcomes are not in my hand. I have had instances where whatsoever one does, if something is destined not to happen, it will not. At the same time, if something is scheduled to happen, it definitely will. I have seen both sides, despair and joy. I just need the strength to handle both success and failure.

Success can give you arrogance and the feeling that one can do nothing wrong. I pray that my scriptwriter gives me the power to keep my head on my shoulders, be humble, treat people rightly and with respect and not get carried away by success either of position or money. And just when you think you have the Midas touch, “Vinaashkaale Vipareetbuddhi” comes in to the picture. At the same time, I hope I have enough strength and resolve to handle failure.

Life, after all, is a Balance Sheet.

Bon Appetit

Last week we had dinner at a Chinese restaurant. It was a standalone restaurant and not one of those multi-restaurant chains that exist. I visited that place after a few years and the food quality was really good. I could remember the taste from 5 years ago. The couple who had accompanied us to this place, used to frequent the place when they were dating. The signature dishes maintained their flavour

The conversation slowly moved to other Chinese restaurants in the vicinity and the subject matter of discussion, was clearly two big chains. The first one of discussion, existed as a standalone restaurant for quite a few years and was an iconic place in the city, similar to the one which we were visiting. Then slowly it expanded, came up with an Initial Public Offer, set up restaurants across the country as well as internationally. Basically it tried to milk its brand.

Though I am no stock picker, I bought shares of this brand. Five years after investment, I have lost 50% of my money. Which brought me back to the question, was it a wrong investment? I went back to my premise for investing in the stock, and they were basically three. 

1. They had good food
2. The Brand had a strong recall 
3. Incomes in India are going to grow, and people are going to eat out more frequently

All the assumptions were valid, but where did I go wrong? The question was answered by the choice of restaurant I went to. Why did I not go to that branded Chinese restaurant? 

1. It had become expensive
2. The taste of food was no longer great

Somewhere in milking the brand and expansion, it lost focus on what it was offering - good food.

While biting my Chilli Chicken, I wondered what made the place tick. It was a simple place, with nice ambience, no extravagance. It still had a paper based menu, no app based or tab based ordering system, which is supposed to reduce turnaround times. The service was good, the waiters pampered and handled my 5 year brat. And importantly the food was good. First lesson for me – you can get all the technology you want, your product needs to be good. People come back for the product and not the technology.  At 10 p.m. when we were exiting after a good dinner, we saw a huge number of people waiting to get in. Clearly the place was doing very well. In the car we had a conversation wondering why the owner was not spreading his wings, creating new outlets and cashing in on his brand. We ended up branding him unambitous, contented and even saying he was a loser. Is that really true?

There is a lot of management and personal development speak on being ambitious, moving ahead in life, growth in both individual as well as corporate life, one thought strikes me hard, is lack of ambition bad?

In a situation, where I am doing good and happy, do I need to lose sleep by chasing a dream? And once I achieve that dream, should I chase the next dream? And when does this chase end?

Who is more successful, the well run standalone restaurant or the chain owner who runs multiple branches and now chases profits rather than ensuring food quality?

Depends how we define success. Is it measured by the brand of car, phone, watch, villa, exotic vacation? Are these societal parameters or our parameters of success? What is more important, cracking that one additional deal, or that one hour of playing cricket with your five year old in the corridor?

Should I be content, have time to pursue my hobbies, spend time with my children and family, sometimes simply laze and do nothing, watch that cricket match, play on the beach or chase that additional revenue?

At the start of my entrepreneurial journey, I was told that if I replicate the effort I put in corporate life, I will earn at least thrice the money that a corporate job gives.  But isn’t entrepreneurship also about finding time for yourself while earning money? Why should rigorous hard work be accompanied by the stress of earning money? Should my mind be focused on putting my best foot forward or worrying where the next piece of revenue come in from?

I really am confused and don’t have any answers. Maybe I have got it all wrong and hence failed as an entrepreneur.

I think it all depends on your hunger… and taste. Bon Appetit

The Cheese is Moving

11^th March 2017 will be a watershed day in Indian electoral history. The Bharatiya Janata Party has emerged as the single largest part with a 3/4^th majority in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. People haven’t been surprised by the victory, but by the margin of victory.

However there is one narrative which has played itself out and needs a mention. The BJP has secured victories in Muslim dominated areas.  From all six constituencies of riot-hit Muzaffarnagar to Deoband in Saharanpur, Bareilly, Bijnor and Moradabad where Muslims dominate the demography, the BJP swept the polls. If one takes the case of Deoband, it has a 70% Muslim population. Now there is a common ‘perception’ that Muslims vote en bloc and are strongly against the BJP.  A Deoband win was not possible without Muslims voting for the BJP.

Clearly the cheese has moved and a people are slowly moving away from voting purely on casteist and religious lines. The BJP made no excuses about being a Hindutva party, at the same time, tried to woo the other religions not from a populist agenda, but from a developmental agenda.

The opposing parties have underestimated the value of Swach Bharat, Kaushal Bharat, Electrification and other announcements of the BJP Government, even though the actual progress on the ground may be limited. The so called ‘Jumlas’ are positive as compared to the promises of the other political parties, who have focused only on belittling the Prime Minister and catering to vote banks.

Clearly Vote Banks are beginning to evaporate and people are going to vote on the caliber of the candidate or vision of party irrespective of caste. The importance of Law and Order cannot be emphasized. In the past 5 years Uttar Pradesh saw 44 riots, and the so called ‘protectors of minorities’ were in power.  .

The writing has been on the wall since 2014, when Modi launched his campaign on a Developmental agenda than a divisive one. While the entire country is waiting for “Ächche Din” and the opposition is mocking the Prime Minister, what is their narrative? The political narratives of non BJP parties have been stuck in a time warp –“We are Secular, BJP is communal, Democracy is under threat etc.” 

If you look deep they actually have no narrative. If the opposition does not reinvent itself, it will be irrelevant. The Cheese has started moving, or maybe it has even moved.

There is a lesson in this for Corporate India. The way the BJP has seen what will work in the future and moved away from the once successful ‘Ram Mandir’ agenda, companies need to think about relevance of products / jobs in the next 5 year. The way technology is progressing, one cannot predict beyond five years.

A month back Capgemini came out with a statement that 65% of the work force is not trainable. A lot of people would have dismissed this statement with a pinch of salt. And then there are a lot of people who would have believed the statement, but said, “I fall within the 35%”. Either they are right, or hiding from the truth.

In my interaction with different corporates, the hushed narrative is that IT and IT enabled services people are going to lose 25 % of jobs to automation. It is time to listen to this narrative and act on the same. And this message of mine, is not to Corporates, but Corporate employees.

A lot of them function from one appraisal cycle to another trying to ensure a good pay hike. A lot of them have got promoted and have effectively no work and appear busy. If some of my readers think the above is an instigating statement, it is right. I want to instigate you to think whether it applies to your job.

It is time for all of us to smell the coffee. How do I know, whether I am a dinosaur or going to become one? First step is to write your CV today, and your CV as it will look 6 months from now. If there is no change other than the size of your pay packet, time to pack up.

I know of a friend who started her career in one of the best banks in the world. She kept on getting offers from multiple banks, offering her a better salary (sometimes hikes as high as 70%) but the same work profile. She was clear that if she moved, she would do so only to an industry and work profile which kept her relevant. Such maturity at a young age is rare.

Now if my future CV is not going to make sense, what do I do?

Please, please, look at what is going to keep you employable for the next five years. Look at the skills that will be in demand in the next decade and start acquiring them. If it means quitting your job and doing a course, so be it. Family and well-wishers will say it is a foolish move, but your elders haven’t been through the times you have and don’t understand your industry.

Time for you to disrupt your life for the better, before technology does the same. Remember when the ages change, some species become extinct.

Background Check

Perceptions make lasting impressions until they are broken. Growing up in the financial city of Mumbai in the early 80s, the place to work was South Mumbai. When you qualify as a Chartered Accountant and have dreams of working in the financial sector then you dream of working in the nerve of the financial sector in Mumbai which is South Mumbai. This place is home to Reserve Bank of India, State Bank of India, Bombay Stock Exchange, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, IDBI, Dena Bank, Allahabad Bank, LIC, New India Assurance Company… in short the who’s who of the financial sector was in South Mumbai.

But Mumbai is an island and will always be constrained by space. So in the 90s when the financial sector was growing, you had new players coming in combined with lack of space. Commercial Real Estate prices were at an all time high. The then Government set up a new financial district in the Bandra Kurla Complex over what was once a marsh. Instituitions like the National Stock Exchange, ICICI, UTI, Citibank etc. set up shop there. In the first decade of the 21^st century when outsourcing was taking roots in this country, international companies wanted offices close to the airport. Thus areas like Malad and Goregaon developed and became the hub of the outsourcing industry. And now in the quest for cheaper real estate, Airoli has also developed as another hub.

So today, even though the financial sector jobs are available all around the city old timers like me who desperately try to cling on to nostalgia, still dream about working in South Mumbai. The heritage buildings, the beautiful movie theatres, the charm of Horniman circle, the Parsi food joints, Marine drive have a different allure to them. So recently when I was picking up a new job, the location being South Mumbai was one of the factors contributing to the decision. Dreams do come true, even if they are 25 years late.

First week into the job and I am still coming to terms with the travel and hence do not carry my lunch with me. After all the neighbourhood is a food lovers paradise. Importantly you get a variety of good food at very reasonable prices. I walk out of office for grabbing a quick sandwich and as I am walking, I am also thinking about the task on hand in my new job. Suddenly a gentlemen in his 50’s stops me and shows me a piece of paper. Instinctively I think that he is asking for directions so I look at that paper.

I am completely taken aback. It is a photocopy of a girl’s identity card and now mind is completely blank… I wonder what the guy wants. This gentlemen now says that they are looking for an alliance for his son, and the prospective daughter in law works in this building. Apparently she comes home very late, and he wants to know whether they really work so hard.

I am completely dumbstruck by this question. I tell him that I would not know, nor would anybody be able to help him about such information.

However the question continues to haunt me and remain in my mind. Why does this gentleman need information about a prospective daughter in law? Why should he not trust her when she says, she works late? If the proposal goes through, is suspicion a good foundation to start a relationship? However before we pass a value judgement on the boy’s family let us understand their perspective. At this point I would like to make a disclaimer, that I have no intentions of justifying any actions of any party. I am just trying to understand their thought processes.

Once upon a time, people used to have a 9 to 5 job and would be home by 6- 630 depending upon the proximity of the office to the workplace. This is still prevalent in a lot of public sector organisations and even in quite a few private sector organisations. So for this gentleman, who probably has a similar job, working late is slightly alien. Secondly the arranged marriages work in a funny manner. 

A lot of times, when the boy or girl is having a relationship, which the parents don’t approve, the easiest solution is to fix up an arranged marriage in the hope that post marriage, the earlier relationship will die down. Both sides of parents are guilty of this.

To me what is a matter of concern is, how did that gentlemen get a photocopy of the girl’s identity card? Did the girl’s parents give it? Did the boy give it? Chances are that the photocopy was acquired in a clandestine fashion. And this is the thought which troubles me. Is this an invasion of the girl’s privacy? When one talks about consent from a woman is this a violation of her consent?

Standing below the mecca of capitalism in the 21^st century, I am rudely reminded, that this is a tale of two countries. There is an India and there is a Bharat. And Bharat co-exists happily with India. India is running in the 21^st Century with Bullock Carts on the road and Jet Planes in the sky.

Responsibility of Freedom

“Sanjay Leela Bhansali slapped on the sets of Padmavati.” This news item flashed across the entire social media over the last weekend of January 2017. This is an act which is definitely condemnable. We cannot allow goondaraj in the name of censorship. The entire film industry and the liberals have come up with tweets showing solidarity with Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

The history we have read says, that Rani Padmini, when she heard that Allauddin Khilji had won the war, led all the royal women to self - immolation to protect their honour. While I am not, an authority of history, I will believe that this story is true. There is a rumour that the movie being filmed distorts history and depicts a love scene between Rani Padmini and Allauddin Khilji.

The tweets and views in the media defending Sanjay Leela Bhansali are interesting. There is a tweet which says that the incident is fictional and just the creation of a poet. A leading newspaper says that “Fictionalised Books or films based loosely on historical characters are a common phenomenon all over the world and artistes must be granted this creative licence.”

I would like to present an alternate view. The film industry, especially Bollywood have a huge influence on people. Stars like Salman Khan, Rajnikant, Aamir Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan have a huge fan following and have a demi god status. Accordingly they also have an impact on society. Any movie, or actions by them are replicated by both children and adults.

Once upon a time, movies were about the triumph of good over evil. Even in the masala potboilers of the 80s and 90s the hero always was a paragon of virtue and won over evil. Gabbar Singh or Mogambo may be lovable characters as villains, but they always lost in the end. The subtle underlying message was good always prevailed. Social issues like mother in laws ill-treating the daughter in law were brought to the fore with a positive message. I am sure Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge ensured quite a few majnus did not elope with their beloveds, but tried wooing the girl’s parents to ensure a happy marriage.

Slowly the narrative changed in the 90s with Darr and Bazigar. The heroes started acquiring shades of grey and were unapologetic about the same. The impact that they had on society is unimaginable. If today there is violence in society, to some extent Bollywood is to blame. Action is glorified in Bollywood movies. This is not to say that there was no violence earlier. But slowly the extent of violence increased.

While I don’t have research to back me up, but children don’t love studies. I don’t know whether it is the fault of the education system, or the teachers or the pedagogy. But the fact is a lot of studies are done to mug the facts and vomit them out during the exams and to be forgotten.

In light of this let us examine the role of movies. It is a medium with a very long reach. Every depiction of an historical character in the movie, is actually an education of masses. The movie makers are expected to conduct sufficient research before coming up with the script. An alternate view, or fictional interpretation of the character, can actually lead to people believing that this view is true, simply because people haven’t read history.

It is with this perspective in mind that the film industry needs to take responsibility. Every action has repercussions. If Sanjay Leela Bhansali has conceptualized a love scene between Allauddin Khilji and Rani Padmini, and has not anticipated negative reactions to the same, I think he is a fool. While I condemn violence, this does not absolve the filmmaker from his responsibility. Any alternate view has to be presented with sensibility and what impact it has on the audience. Shock treatment for commercial gains cannot be the end result of freedom of expression.

Every freedom has to be self-shackled by a sense of responsibility. The creative medium wants freedom, without wanting the responsibility attached to it. It is like a corporate CEO having the authority to spend but not wanting to be accountable for profits to the shareholders. A freedom given to a child about what and when to study or not to study, brings with it a responsibility to pass or score well in the exams. If the child does not pass the exams and does not get a job subsequently, don’t blame it on unfairness of the system. A freedom to dress as you wish does not mean, you go around roaming naked. No sir, freedom comes with great responsibility, and it is time Bollywood starts taking responsibility.

Over the last two years, the NDA Government is being accused of trying to rewrite history because they are rewriting textbooks. Isn’t Bollywood doing the same in the name of creative liberty?