But the truth is that Aamir was quite humiliated by Javed Akhtar’s accusations and barby remarks at the meeting. A source present at the meeting tells us what actually happened.

“The meeting called on January 4 included Boney Kapoor, Javed Akhtar, Bhushan Kumar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Madhu Mantena, Mukesh Bhatt and Prasoon Joshi. Now Javedsaab has been fighting for more rights for the musicians and writers – whether in Bollywood or outside. But at one point during the meeting things got totally out of hand when Aamir made a statement saying that if his movie 3 Idiots was making say 10 crores why should a Swanand Kirkire and Shantanu Moitra get 50 per cent of that. So to that Javedsaab said it was because they deserved it and they were the ones creating it. To that Aamir retorted it was all their inputs that made the composers churn out what they did.”

By now it seems the senior lyricist was seeing red and so he told Aamir then that he was glad he didn’t take his advice in Lagaan. “Javedsaab had written Lagaan’s hit song Chale chalo. When that song was being written it seems Aamir had asked for the phrase ‘nasha’ to be included at the start but Javedsaab had none of it. And they both as well as the others present there knew the song became a super hit. In fact Aamir didn’t know how to respond when Javedsaab told him that if he thought the musicians and writers were such frivolous people that only made hit songs on his direction then why doesn’t he make a film without any songs and music!”