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. 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.

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