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Sanju Movie Review - Whitewashing Dutt with some cheer
Updated On: 29 June, 2018 03:27 PM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu
Sanju Movie Review: Few glaring hiccups in an otherwise watchable and frankly, very enjoyable film. Just don't hope for a warts-and-all biopic.
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Ranbir Kapoor in Sanju poster
Sanju
U/A; Drama
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Dia Mirza, Paresh Rawal, Manisha Koirala
Rating: 
A regular desi movie buff's romance with Raju Hirani started with the incredibly enjoyable Munnabhai MBBS which famously resurrected the nearly dwindling career of its leading man - Sanjay Dutt. Sleepwalking through most of 90s' passable films, Dutt's affable bad-boy act resonated with his teeming millions of fans, who loved him for those exact reasons - a movie star version of Robinhood. To abridge a rockstar life of that magnanimity must have been the most challenging part for filmmaker Hirani and his writer Abhijat Joshi. And their script is a true-blue Hirani product - a fable out of our textbooks with moral lessons at the end of each chapter. The millennial Hrishikesh Mukherjee-esque duo whip up a plot that resembles their designs the best - laughter, cheer, tears, rooted in heartfelt emotions, sucking out most of the controversies that would've accompanied Dutt's biopic, if the film were made by anyone else. Hirani and Joshi establish it as a survivor story, of father-son love and of undying friendships.
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