Love & Passion Quote by Ajay Devgan

Devgan is admitting, with unusual candor, that originality in mainstream cinema is often less a moral stance than a timing problem. The first sentence reads like an unwritten industry code: if another producer has already claimed the same territory, you pivot, not out of artistic shame, but out of pragmatism. There are only so many release windows, only so much audience appetite for a familiar premise, and being “second” can turn a bankable idea into a public comparison exercise you didn’t sign up for.

The bite comes in the second line: “If someone else starts after me, what am I to do?” It’s both a shrug and a small defense brief. Devgan flips the usual accusation of copying into a question of sequence and investment. Once he’s announced, crews hired, money committed, and publicity in motion, backing out isn’t an ethical gesture - it’s financial self-sabotage. The subtext is that the marketplace doesn’t reward the person who is most original; it rewards the person who can hold their ground when sameness inevitably appears.

Culturally, the quote lands in a Bollywood context where remakes and “inspired by” narratives circulate as open secrets, policed more by audience mood than by strict notions of authorship. Devgan isn’t romanticizing the system. He’s describing it: duplication is tolerated, even expected, until it threatens your position. Then it becomes a fight over legitimacy, framed as destiny: I started, I can’t stop.