He is who he is, and you should view him just like that. The focus, front and centre, is on Dutt, but lacks any psychological probing. Sanju is almost an exception for Hirani because it’s not a plot-driven but a character-driven narrative.
Reams have been written about that last one, and still not nearly enough. It’s pure and simple denial.ĭutt has certainly lived a life that would dwarf most people’s – be it his fight with drugs, liaisons with co-actors or connections with underworld dons. It always sounded like a movie, which a big filmmaker was making for his just-out-of-jail actor friend.īut Sanju is not an exercise in white-washing.
Painted in a caricaturish tone, his characters started to appear soulless.Ĭoming after PK, Hirani’s biggest success, Sanju has been looked at with suspicion since its announcement. Be it Maqsood, the sweeper, in Munna Bhai MBBS or the retired teacher seeking pension in Lage Raho, Hirani humanised his characters and brought his professed Gandhian philosophy to his art.īut over the course of four films, prior to Sanju, empathy and honesty – the strongest attributes of his breakout debut – acquired the heavy wardrobe of issues. He gave voice to middle-class Indians, mostly forgotten and erased by Bollywood’s largely upper-class world. The most striking thing about Lage Raho was the humanity Hirani managed to bestow on his characters, even the questionable ones. He revived Gandhi in public consciousness almost 60 years after his assassination by bringing him within the fold of the world of his two most loved characters – Munna Bhai and Circuit. In one of his best films till date, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, Hirani (and co-writer Abhijat Joshi) had a lot to say about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the father of the nation. However, it plays out like Hirani’s guilty conscience. The comic scene is meant to convey Dutt’s (Ranbir Kapoor) aversion to such a statement. Tripathi (Piyush Mishra), the actor who is popularly known as Baba is said to have lived a life similar to Mahatma Gandhi’s. In a chapter from a fictional biography, penned by a fictional D.N.
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The movie fails to probe Dutt’s choices.īapu aur Baba’ is how Rajkumar Hirani’s Sanju, a biopic on actor Sanjay Dutt, begins.
In Sanju, Rajkumar Hirani turns a privileged movie star into a victim of media bias.
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