Sanju
Starring Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, Vicky Kaushal, Manisha Koirala, Paresh Rawal, Dia Mirza
Directed by Rajkumar Hirani
So it was all the media’s fault. The newspapers, damn them, hid behind question marks and ‘sources’ to declare our Sanju Baba, arrey Sanjay Dutt yaar, a terrorist.
Rajkumar Hirani’s long-awaited bio-pic on the controversial star is long on drama, short on facts. It cleverly makes Sanjay Dutt look like a victim of his own naivete. To his credit, Ranbir Kapoor plays Sanjay Dutt with such ardent goofiness and sincerely disingenuousness that I seriously began to wonder if the film’s opening joke—about a bogus biographer played by Piyush Mishraof (all people!) likening Dutt to Bapu—had come true by the end of the film.
Rajkumar Hirani and his writer Abhijat Joshi lay the blame for Dutt’s sordid image as a terrorist squarely on the media. There...
Starring Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, Vicky Kaushal, Manisha Koirala, Paresh Rawal, Dia Mirza
Directed by Rajkumar Hirani
So it was all the media’s fault. The newspapers, damn them, hid behind question marks and ‘sources’ to declare our Sanju Baba, arrey Sanjay Dutt yaar, a terrorist.
Rajkumar Hirani’s long-awaited bio-pic on the controversial star is long on drama, short on facts. It cleverly makes Sanjay Dutt look like a victim of his own naivete. To his credit, Ranbir Kapoor plays Sanjay Dutt with such ardent goofiness and sincerely disingenuousness that I seriously began to wonder if the film’s opening joke—about a bogus biographer played by Piyush Mishraof (all people!) likening Dutt to Bapu—had come true by the end of the film.
Rajkumar Hirani and his writer Abhijat Joshi lay the blame for Dutt’s sordid image as a terrorist squarely on the media. There...
- 6/29/2018
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
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