I doubt it was rehearsed, but I was so surprised when Sonuji humbly and openly and pulicly declared infront to Amir his great love and admiration for him since childhood and went to the extent of opening an "ancient" diary, intact will all the old pictures and scribblings. He further declared his childhood fantasies and that he had been his greatest fan all this while. It required a lot of courage, humility and sincerity.