I’m starting off a new section called ‘Stuff the government does that it shouldn’t be doing’.

First up, writing film plots.

Indian Summer, the much-hyped Hollywood project about the alleged romance between Edwina Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru, has been cancelled with the director blaming the wrangling between the Indian Government and the studio as the reason.

“We were in between a rock and a hard place. The Indian government wanted us to make less of the love story while the studio wanted us to make more of the love story,” said director Joe Wright.

I’m all for free speech and expression, so the government interfering in a film that probably won’t even be released in India is rather annoying. Further, it hurts the businesses that would’ve benefited had the crew shot in India, and hurts India’s image in movie-making tourism.

Stupid government. If you really want to write a movie, go $!#!@# yourself.

P.S. : $!#!@# = write.