His problems never end till he breathes his last, just a year before his son is redeemed of His Tada charges. He is fighting to save the love of his life while his rebel without a cause son is neck deep in drugs. Not many of our generation know Sunil Dutt, but Rawal makes him palpable. Through most of the film, you feel bad for the honest man who is stuck with a son who doesn’t deserve him.
The veteran is impeccable in every scene and every frame. Oh, Ranbir stands tall but have you ever acknowledged how brilliant is Paresh Rawal. It is in fact an impeccably performed, finely made, heartwarming movie. They ran the fear of many legal notices and defamation suits which is why none of Dutt’s 350 dalliances, including those with reigning Bollywood queens of 90s ever make it to the frame. But makers - Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi have focused only on selected parts of his life. He has paid a price for his mistakes - unlike many of his peers - and there he is purged of all misdoings. So we know that baba, as he is fondly called is a kind and affable person surely but the focus here is entirely on redeeming him of his many and too many flaws. Technically speaking there is a big difference between a biopic and a film like Sanju, but here the attempt to tilt the scales completely on his side. It’s unabashedly media bashing in its tone that you want to believe that the news reportage of the 90s was indeed so frivolous in their approach? They apparently wrote everything unsubstantiated and made Sanjay Dutt to be a villain, a Voldemort and the most dastardly word - Terrorist. Because Sanju is not a biopic it’s an image correction exercise. And it's a flawed story, too.It’s hard to not be a journalist and write a piece about the film, Sanju. But by blaming things on the media, omitting sticky points or presenting them in a new way, Sanju is certainly not a biopic.
On the day of Sanju's release, Rawal said that nothing in the film is a whitewash or propaganda.
He said he wanted a gun for the safety of his family but already had three which he used for shooting. Dutt’s phone calls were tapped, and he opted to return pretending nothing had happened.ĭutt's confessional statement to police also was not a media creation, nor has he denied the fact that he kept a cache of arms in his house. He was told that if he surrendered, he would be tried under the Arms Act, but if not and is arrested, he would be tried under the stern Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act (Tada) with no bail, as legal luminaries had predicted as well.
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Baljeet Parmar, a former colleague of yours truly, is on record to state that Dutt wanted to know the implications while shooting in Mauritius in full knowledge that police were waiting for him. But where cracks cannot be papered - such as his marriages and trouble with crime - it is the media who influenced the terrorist tag.īut Dutt forgets that he was forewarned by a journalist himself, even before the latter broke the story of him possessing a rifle. In Sanju, Dutt's early drug problems are met with a sympathetic tone, with anecdotes of a star kid overwhelmed by his father's legacy to evoke sympathy. But by the end, Dutt turns up himself and says it is the media who messed up his life and implied he was terrorist by only quoting sources and allegations. There's a lot of media-bashing, as per usual You can skip flings and affairs in a biopic of a self-admittedly promiscuous actor, but how can two wives not be mentioned at all, while the third and current one gets all the credit for being a calming influence as Dutt battles for redemption in his latter years?ĥ. It has indeed been presented nicely, but the question to ask is, how much did that 'great story' take shape or change shape in its telling? While understanding the need for creative liberty, the story of Sanju is an empty one and simply cannot be Sanjay Dutt's biopic without these must-have aspects listed below: 1. Sanju is a tasteful film and, in Hirani's own words, it's "a great story waiting to be told." Ranbir Kapoor as Dutt and Vicky Kaushal as his friend Kamlesh Kapasi are the real show-stealers, as detailed in our movie review. And so it may seem out of place to begrudge something against the general public's verdict (clearly people love it), but if the Rajkumar Hirani-directed movie was promoted as a biopic of Sanjay Dutt, the film is anything but.
Sanju has been raking in the cash since its release on June 29.