As Rajkumar Hirani had himself admitted around the release of 3 Idiots, when the master strategist Aamir Khan is at work for the marketing and promotion of a film, a director can afford to take a back seat after the film is canned and censored.
Nothing succeeds like success and two back to back all time blockbusters in the form of Ghajini and 3 Idiots meant that not too many voices were expected to be raised, intentionally or
unintentionally, when it came to an Aamir Khan film.