The jovial repartee that goes back and forth between Sanju and his best friend Kamli is replete with sexual humor and elicits frequent laughs from the audience. All Sanju’s exploits are presented with humor, sympathy and a pinch of salt.
Hirani and Ranbir’s Sanju presents Sanjay Dutt with some honesty and entirely without judgment, whether it be the addict who sells his fiancé Ruby’s mangalsutra to buy drugs even as she waits for him in vain on their appointed marriage day, the philanderer who sleeps with his best friend’s girlfriend, or the controversial rich kid and his embroilment with the underworld and illegal possession of weapons. As the film’s subtitle aptly puts it – it has surely been “ One Man … Many Lives”.
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We meet many different Sanjus through the 161 minutes of the movie, be it the naïve slender debutante, young and eager to make his mark and be proved worthy in his father’s eyes, the twenty-something who spirals down into a turbulent world of drug addiction, and the recovered and brawny former-junkie who winds up as an accused for arms possession and involvement in the serial bombings in Bombay. Ranbir seamlessly merges with the character of Sanjay Dutt, capturing the latter super-star at every twist and turn of his sinuous life that has been under constant scrutiny and criticism by the public eye and that of the media. Ranbir’s ‘ Sanju’ is brazen, foolish, flawed, impulsive and inadvertently doomed through various phases in his life, while also coming across as a never-say-die survivor, doting son, and an incorrigible and hilarious child-man loved limitlessly by his friends and family. Though Sanjay Dutt’s life may have come packed with all the requisite action, emotion, magic, blood, sweat and molten chocolate hearts that a successful film requires, here it is Ranbir who breathes beautiful life into the dramatization of the transitions in Sanjay’s image and persona. That being said, this is equally Ranbir Kapoor’s film … an actor, star and heartthrob who gets it right par excellence with each role that he plays onscreen, and ‘ Sanju’ is no exception. Though it is common knowledge that at 58 years old, the real life ‘Sanju’ has time and again fallen hard and lived substantially large, the fact that he has conquered his erstwhile demons and come out miraculously intact at the end of it all makes his life-story worthwhile subject matter for a biopic to reckon with. This crowd-pleaser has struck the right chord cinematically speaking – just the right dose of laughter and heart to balance out the heavily emotional tough stuff picked out from the film’s subject Sanjay Dutt’s life. In the ten days since Sanju, director Rajkumar Hirani’s 2018 biopic on tinsel town’s quintessential bad boy Sanjay Dutt, first hit the screens, the film has made its mark and held its own equally at the box office and amidst the crowds flocking to the theatres to watch.