Chetan Bhagat alleges Vidhu Vinod Chopra 'bullied' him as Anupama slams jibe at critics

Amid allegations flying around back and forth in the film industry, popular author Chetan Bhagat also got involved in a controversy as he took a jibe at ‘elitist critics’ amid the controversy over Sushant Singh Rajput’s death.

Numerous critics slammed him over his statements and one of them was Anupama Chopra, who felt the author had ‘lowered’ the discourse with his statements. The Five Point Someone writer hit back by asking her where her ‘discourse was', during the controversy over 3 Idiots writing credits, claiming he was ‘bullied’ and even ‘driven to suicide’ by her husband Vidhu Vinod Chopra.

Chetan Bhagat on Tuesday, in a series of tweets, slammed the ‘English speaking critics’ while adding that one critic tried to destroy his career and even tried to ‘sink’ Sushant Singh Rajput. He urged stars and citizens not to patronise such ‘evil’ critics. Anupama responded that each time one thinks the discourse could not get ‘lower, it does.’

Chetan Bhagat responded by claiming that her husband had ‘publicly bullied’ and ‘shamelessly collected’ all the best story awards and drove him ‘close to suicide.’ He asked where Anupama Chopra where her discourse was then.

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For the unversed, Chetan Bhagat and Vidhu Vinod Chopra got into a spat over the rights of his book Five Point Someone, which was loosely adapted for the film 3 Idiots.

The former had claimed that he was not credited for the story of the Aamir Khan-starrer and Chopra had sparked a row when he shouted ‘shut up’ at media person at a press conference over it. He had apologised for his outburst and Chetan Bhagat had later stated that he wanted to ‘move on.’ Rajkumar Hirani’s film 3 Idiots is considered among the biggest hits of the Hindi film industry, having earned over Rs 200 crore at the domestic box office.

In another tweet, Chetan Bhagat stated that he did not receive any awards for the story, (officially credited to Hirani, Abhijat Joshi, and Vidhu Vinod Chopra).

Meanwhile, earlier in the day, the author's attack at critics got heated responses from many. He then tweeted that the ‘whole ecosystem’ got ‘rattled’ with his tweets.