‘3 Idiots Better Than Book,’ Says Actor R Madhavan To Author Chetan Bhagat

New Delhi: Actor R Madhavan and writer Chetan Bhagat got engaged in a verbal spat on Twitter, creating quite a stir on social media.

It turned out later that the verbal duel on the micro-blogging site was a promotional run for the recently premiered Netflix series ‘Decoupled’. The show stars Madhavan as India’s second best-selling author and Chetan appears as himself. They are constantly competing with each other in the show. It also has Surveen Chawla.

So, it began with Madhavan saying that ‘3 Idiots’ was better than the author’s book ‘Five Point Someone’. The gimmick centred around the ‘movies vs books’ debate.

Madhavan mentioned, in a tweet, that he is biased towards films. “Hey Chetan… My bias is movies > books,” he wrote. The author responded, “Have you ever heard anyone ever say the movie is better than the book?” The exchange slowly picked up pace and the two did not stop taking swipes at each other, of course, all in good humour.

It did not take fans and netizens to guess that both Madhavan and Chetan were pulling each other’s legs as part of a promotional stunt. Confirming this, Madhavan replied to a Twitter user saying, “Hey of course it’s scripted. Chetan Bhagat is my bro. We are just doing the publicity drill.” Chetan also replied to the actor’s tweet and wrote, “Love you bro.” The verbal jousting ended on a cordial note war of words on a good note.