Sanju | Biopic on a criminal?
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, M. S. Dhoni: An Untold Story, Padman, Dangal, Sanju……… Wait, what? A bewda , a tharki, a drug addict. Sanjay Dutt is far from what the quintessential biopic material is like. Then why is Raju Hirani, arguably the best director we’ve seen in recent times, doing a biopic on him? I mean, have we run out of inspirational stories to start making biopics on people who helped terrorists? Right? Here’s the problem we all have with Sanju- We want all our idols to be ideals- people who have fought against the odds, wrestled against the rules of the society, so on and so forth to achieve success. We don’t want to watch a movie about a person who commits mistake after mistake and ends up in Yerwada Central Jail, convicted of illegal possession of an AK-56 rifle which was smuggled into India before terrorist attacks. But I still want to watch it. Why? Because I want to watch his ability to navigate his ship through the ups and downs. There would be very few peo...