Review of the movie Sanju: The Ranbir Kapoor starrer is especially endearing

Sanju Movie Review: Ranbir Kapoor Starrer Sanju is a dialed-down, tamed version of the hell of the hell of real life that Sanjay Dutt

Casting of the movie Sanju: Ranbir Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Vicky Kaushal, Dia Mirza, Jim Sarbh, Manisha Koirala, Anushka Sharma, Sonam Kapoor, Boman Irani [19659006] Director Sanju: Rajkumar Hirani
Sanju Movie Rating : 2.5 stars

In Sanju, we have the story of one of the eternal boys of Bollywood , Sanjay Dutt. From what we know from Dutt's story, pieced together from ruthless details after appalling details via gossip, reports and biographies, she was infinitely more surreal and weird than anything else imagine. That, sooner or later, Dutt's psychedelic life, oh-my-god-who-may-be-not-true, be the subject of a film is obvious, because who can withstand the lure of bad boys, fast lanes, and glamor of the film world, glittery and sordid at the same time?

The challenge was always going to be: how does a simple film encapsulate this mega-filmi, the oversized life, which is still on

up to here, so metamorphosed

Rajkumar Hirani does the only thing that's 39 ;he can. By doing Sanjay Dutt, Sanju. By choosing to show us a child-man, full of insecurities and flaws. By making the movie a lot more about a stray son and a loving and forgiving father, than a king-sized superstar, get-out-my-way "jo har fikr ko dhuein mein udaata chaala gaya ". And yes, giving this wandering son a chance for redemption, because it would not be a movie of Rajkumar Hirani otherwise.

Make no mistake. While Sanju does not hesitate to talk about Sanjay Dutt's involvement in the bombings in Bombay, and does not shy away from showing that he frequents dubious characters with their ties to the underworld, he does these things lightly, sorry, with a laugh and a wink. Yes, the movie says, as did the real life star, he made a mistake, but it was unintentional; he did not know the seriousness of what he was doing. Yes, he kept a machine gun in his house, but he did so only because he wanted to keep his family safe. Yes, he did all that, and look, look, he went to jail for that, where he had to suffer from overflowing toilets, airless cells, and hard floors.

Basically, Sanju is a dialyzed version of the real-life hell that was Sanjay Dutt, who at one point was so taken by drugs that he begged his father, the respected thespian and parliamentarian Sunil Dutt to save him. Sanju gives us a Sanjay mediatized by the lightness of the director's worldview in which even the most improbable "munnabhais" (there is a reference Munnabhai MBBS here too, who meta on meta: a star playing a star playing a lot of the beloved character played by this star) overcome all odds and become heroes. This Sanju Baba looks like an updated version of Munna Bhai, or is Munna Bhai an anticipated version of Sanju? The two bad boys with great fathers and a "jaadu-ki-jhappi" who pulled them out of the abyss: sometimes it's hard to know who is who.

Once you have made your peace with the Sanjay we get, and there was no way to find another one in a Hirani movie, you can sit back and enjoy the movie. I had an explosion until halfway. Ranbir Kapoor is absolutely credible as Sanjay-Sanju, channeling not only his distinctive body language (Dutt) and his "lehja" but his internal confusion. Paresh Rawal, who plays Sunil Dutt with exemplary restraint, takes Kapoor's step, even in advance. Manisha Koirala, like Nargis, makes you wish that there is more of her. Jim Sarbh, as a guy with bad influence, is very handsome and dandy, and Vicky Kaushal as Gujju's faithful friend based in New York and teaching him life lessons, is great. And Hirani is in great shape, making sure that all his reel characters reflect on the real characters, in the pursuit of a solid and entertaining tale.

After the step, the film slides distinctly. He builds too many episodes in his zeal to prove the childish appearance of his bad-boy hero, the pace slackens, and we have more time to notice his tricks. The attempt to paint "The media looking for a ruthless title" as a real bad boy becomes boring after a point, going so far as to suggest that a "fake report" could have been responsible of his incarceration.

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While Dutt's guilt remains questionable, the choice of one side is fully the prerogative of the filmmaker. Through the clever writing of Hirani and Abhijat Joshi, Kapoor beautifully builds Dutt's character in the first part, cleverly choosing to take some of Dutt's signature moves and mix it with his own. delivery. The pressure to be good, to be a star, to be at the top, everything is there. But then the film turns to his bad boy; we start feeling sorry for him, which may have been the intention, but the movie becomes less interesting from there. To say in the credits that "cinematographic freedoms" were taken in the course of a deeply cinematic life takes away something crucial, something electrical

Yet, what we get, and how we in Sanju, it is especially endearing, and some of them good enough to make you laugh out loud in pleasure, especially when Hirani kills him. But you also wonder what the film has chosen to leave out, and you wonder if it would have been more a movie if these things had been there.

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And if I left the cinema thinking, the movie was called 'Sanjay Dutt', instead of & # 39; Sanju & # 39 ;.

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