'Nobody likes preachy stories. When you lace it with humour, it works.'
They try to hide behind the smokescreen that these are works of fiction inspired by real events. So, you can pick and choose from facts and fictionalise to push the right triggers with your audience or appease the powers that be, observes Shekhar Gupta.
Sukanya Verma compares yesteryear stars and the contemporary ones at about approximately the same age and the results are glaring.