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Fake could be a synonym for Bollywood if oxford decides to renew its word list.Imagine on one hand they keep shouting, no piracy! no piracy! BS and then they arm twist a writer and not give him credit for a work they definitely copied (I agree the climax wasn't the same). But this time unfortunately for them, the writer is kind of popular, writes a blog and has good credibility. On one hand, no piracy, on the other, yes to copying without giving proper credit. It seems Bollywood and original can never go hand in hand. I don't know how much creativity really exists. As Einstein says, creativity is the art of hiding your sources, well if you can't hide as in this case, please give due credit. It is a cheap act when you are earning crores, not big hearted enough to give proper credit and then misbehave in press-conferences.

The professor's [Boman Irani] pen (which he had to hand over to the brightest student), was built by fischer space pen company specially for use in zero gravity. The common misconception associated with it is that NASA spent millions of dollars on making it and smarter Russians (atleast thats how I heard it) instead went ahead and used a pencil in space (I was a victim of the same misconception). I decided to check prof's argument on Wikipedia and here is what it says, There exists a common urban legend claiming that the Americans spent millions of dollars developing the Space Pen, and the Russians used a pencil. In fact, NASA programs have used pencils (for example a 1965 order of mechanical pencils) but because of the danger that a broken-off pencil tip poses in zero gravity and the flammable nature of the wood present in pencils a better solution was needed. [Read more about Space Pen here ] Assuming Wiki to be accurate, the Prof was correct at the end of the movie. Som...