India, Nov. 2 -- "Life Imitates Art" or "Art Imitates Life" -- this age-old existential debate has just had quite a field day, quite a collision at the Louvre in France.

Filmdom must already be spinning and spawning scripts to immortalise the seven minutes of dashing daredevilry. Hollywood and Bollywood must already be in a race to be the first to scream 'Lights, camera, action" to make their millions from the $100-million heist.

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The Louvre's fifteen minutes of infame merit claps on certain counts.

That within hours of the Louvre break-in, "breaking news" blokes to bloggers were vying with each other to churn out lists of flicks fashioned after famous heists, proved how much the world loves a heist. It validated how...