“We have successfully fooled India. Let me unveil the latest version of what I like to call ‘Creative Recycling’" said Rajkumar Hirani, as he opened a PowerPoint slideshow. “We created a plot using the basic skeleton of the Munnabhai MBBS movie. Just like the former, 3 Idiots is a story of an overly emotional, too good to be true, quick witted dialogue speaking individual that takes on a cliched system in the form of a caricature played by Boman Irani. The protagonist falls in love with Irani’s daughter and in a series of incidents, inspires everyone to cry for every little thing, and the movie ends with pretty much everyone coming of age and ‘proof’ that the protagonists way of thinking is indeed the right way. Not to mention bringing a comatose patient back to life with only the ‘power of love’”.

“So what we did here was change the hospital into a college, give it a youthful feel by casting actors aged 44, 39, and 30 respectively to play the lead roles as first year college students and finally, make it a lot funnier with the addition of strategically placed fart jokes. Oh those fart jokes, they never go out of style. We inserted many classic email forwards like the one about the zero gravity pen, to make the lead actor sound intelligent. We also included many close up shots of Sharman Joshi in tears” he continued, moving from slide to slide.

“There we have it folks, a new era has arrived. An era where movie goers can be fooled into liking recycled scripts. An era of creative conservatism, if you will.” he concluded, rubbing his hands in glee, with the final slide showing a standard clipart of two bags of money.

The meeting ended in cliched style, with the producers laughing evilly while lightning strikes in the background.