Shooting from the lip

The Babu doesn't think Suketu Mehta is aware of this, but according to Vidhu Vinod Chopra: "Mehta is crazy. His marriage is over, he’s on the street." And this would be because...Chopra is angry about what he thinks Suketu wrote about him in Maximum City--but the film-maker hasn't read the book. Which doesn't stop him from shooting his mouth off in a bizarre interview with Tehelka's Sonia Faleiro:
"He writes, I’m told, (I haven’t read the book) that he came to my house and there were my three wives. [Mehta makes no such statement--Ed.] What is this nonsense? Renu (Saluja) was my ex wife, Shabnam is in Canada. I have had one wife for nine years. I haven’t spoken about this to the press, but talking about it to you makes me think I should sue him. It suits him to project this image of an Indian director, because it fits into the dangerous mind of Americans, who like to feel superior to everyone else. The book should be banned."
Unless there's another way of dealing with the problem, and of course Vidhu Vinod Chopra finds one:
"I’ve slapped a couple of critics, which is why I never get good reviews. But I hven’t slapped anyone for a long time. I have young children so I try very hard. But I get angry with people like Mehta. If he came here now, I would slap him."
That would be so much more mature.