Review of SANJU : Is it the biopic you wanted to see?

Movie : Sanju
Directors: Rajkumar Hirani
Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Vicky Kaushal, Manisha Koirala, Dia Mirza, Boman Irani, Anushka Sharma, Tabu
Genre: Biography, Drama
Rating: 4.3/5


Story-Byte:  
Movie Sanju serves the dramatic biopic of the controversial life of actor Sanjay Dutt: his film career, jail sentence, and personal life. The movie mainly portrays the ups-and-downs of the relationship with his father!

Storyline:
'One man, many lives' is the perfect words that define the heart of the movie. Like any other movies by Rajkumar Hirani, this movie too gives a vivid and dramatic look to this biopic. The movie starts off with Sanjay Dutt(played by Ranbir Kapoor) preparing to surrender himself regarding the Supreme Court’s verdict of 1993 Bombay blasts after which Sanjay and Maanayata(Dia Mirza) seek the help of an autobiographer Winnie Diaz played by Anushka Sharma.
The movie then takes you to the flashback when Sanjay Dutt was to debut in Bollywood through his movie Rocky. It was also the time when her mother Nargis(played by Manisha Koirala) was fighting with her Pancreatic Cancer and just before the release of Rocky her mother dies to leave Sanju in a pathetic dismantled condition. Here comes  Zubin Mistry, a drug peddler, played by Jim Sarbh, who introduces him to the drug. Gradually Sanjay feels confident in drugs and gets addicted but later on, he is also the one to suffer thus trying to quit it but all went to vain. He was taken to rehab in America by his loving father Sunil Dutt (Paresh Rawal), where he meets  Kamle aka Kamlesh (played by Vicky Kaushal) and instantly becomes the fast friend. They are seen hoping and moping over pubs and sexual talks.
Sanju is seen escaping the Rehab only to return fit and fine after a year and a half. 
The next half of the movie all about his connection to the Underworld, his jail sentence and his suffering in the Yerawada Jail, Pune. How is fights over all this, how his family is affected and all?

Acting :

Coming to acting part each and every person in the movie has given their best be in a big or short screen time. Although the movie is basically is shared between the three characters only-Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Dutt and Kamlesh.

No doubt Ranbir has nailed the Role. The way Sanjay Dutt talks, the way he walks, the way he laughs each and every minute details are taken care of by Ranbir. And the voice that Ranbir has mimicked has left us with no comments. Just hats off to the acting department.

Another actor who has left a mark on the big screen is Vicky Kaushal. He is a fantastic actor-Hands down.

Music:
Music with 'Kar Har Maidan Fateh' sung by Sukhwinder Singh, Shreya Ghoshal and penned down by Shekhar Astitwa is one such gripping and inspiring song that was somehow digestible but not the other ones. Although other songs were pretty well too it feels like forced upon your ears and not necessary.
Background score deserves a applause though.

Direction:
Direction should never be questioned when the movie is directed by Rajkumar Hirani Saheb. He's the best in the department and although it is his first time in a biopic category he did a justice to the movie in direction department.
Yet it can be believed according to me that it was his weakest movie until now.
He is a master storyteller we should never forget that.

Final spill Verdict:
As a layman I really liked the movie be it from any perspective. This 160-minute movie delivers all the emotion that is required in the movie and overall proves a great entertainment movie if we keep the facts aside. 

Although the movie at first promised us to show all the true colors of the Sanjay Dutt's shady life, somewhere near after the interval you'll definitely get to feel that its a propaganda(maybe, not a perfect word) by Hirani sir to show Sanju innocent. After watching the movie you will be definitely left with a tint of doubt that whether the movie is made only from a single person's view. I felt it lacked the research regarding the complete authenticity of the events.

The final question ' Is it the biopic you wanted to see?'

• Yes if you wanted a masala entertainment biopic and you are either a  Sanjay Dutt or Ranbir fan. 
• Somewhat no because after all this toil if an audience is left with a movie which somewhat seems biased and made only from a single person's perspective it might hurt some audience. Although it's not a matter of discussion anymore.

Should I watch? 
Go watch the movie if you are a Ranbir or Baba fan; you'll love it. Definitely a one-time watch movie.

What is Hard Work? Will it pay me? Is it enough to be successful?

As a kid, I was told that “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”

I was not sure what that actually meant but started to do what others were doing- the hard work!
They would tell me the stories of people who by their hard work re-spawn the course of time. They were Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Edison, Walt Disney. You know there is always a long list of people who can inspire kids by their stories of hard work. But as I am grown up now, I thought to invest research on their what you say their “hard work”.

Bill Gates:

Hi, I am Bill Gates. You know me right? Yes, you do. You call me lucky, you call me Hard working. I was both but a mixture of more; The smart work!
When IBM wanted a software that could run on their Personal Computer and give them a user-friendly look, I saw a future for my drowning company Microsoft. My luck was with me, particularly when an office assistant, which they mistook me, was able to impress them and get the contract in hands. Everything seemed good but the problem was that I haven’t developed any BASIC operating system that could run in IBM’s. I had handled this before and was sure to get it done this time too.
Here comes the Smart work I did. You will always have a hurdle and even a way to get out of that hurdle but may lack a source. Finding that source is important. I found. I bought an operating system that was designed to run on computers similar to IBM’s. I bought the licensing and complete ownership under my name and Microsoft, obviously without telling them about the IBM’s deal. I was sued later but the matter was settled.
I did some hard work and was able to make the OS run on IBM. I felt successful but this didn’t help me. IBM wanted me to sell my source code to them instead I proposed a deal. I was paid only the licensing fee for whatever number the PC’s with Microsoft OS was sold.
Smart work was not re-selling source code to IBM but charging the only licensing fee. How? This allowed me to license MS-DOS to any other PC manufacturer and not just IBM.
By 1983, Microsoft had their OS running in 30% of the market!

Henry Ford:

Do I need an introduction? You visualize me whenever you hear the idiom “rags to riches”. Isn’t? Probably you are riding a Ford while reading this or may have just seen passing a Ford passing by you just now.
I story began when I joined Detroit Edison Company in 1890. Within a short span, I was promoted to chief engineer. See hard work definitely pays.
Within a more couple of year, I was able to construct a model car, the Ford Quadricycle and lighting genius Edison appreciated my work saying to build a better model.
Time flew fast. I hold a patent for a carburetor. Left Edison to pursue my car-making business full-time.
Over the year I failed more than succeeding. Every time I felt everything is going good, I had to face some trouble. My company dissolved and I reformed it. Twice and succeeded. Thus you know me!
You ask: “You didn’t seem to enjoy hard work?”
I did smart work too. Who at that era thought that a car can be a mode of common transport for lower class people too? I created for everyone.
What makes me so successful is that I took my business idea and made it bigger. Had I stayed with my original small factory, I wouldn’t be the business icon that you know today. Every time I wanted to improve my company, I invested in a much larger factory to produce more products. Most of the entrepreneur fear to invest. They don’t have a future view. I had. Sometimes it was correct. Sometimes wrong. But I improved.

Edison:

Probably you are sitting under a bulb and that is what I am also known for. Yes, peep give me a limca book of record for failing the most. I failed over 10,000 times to invent a commercially the viable electric light bulb.
Most people still know me for my business tactic as well.
As you know I was not born smart or talented. I was neither treated well. My teachers had no faith in my early age and I was often deemed "difficult" by my teacher. My habit of reading helped me. I was neither born lucky- so had to rely completely on hard work. I saved a kid while working for a railroad. His father offered me to teach Telegraph. I could have asked for money but is money more worth than knowledge?
By 15 I had enough knowledge to work as a telegrapher. I experimented then and learned.
Time passed by and with the hard work I felt I was reaching my aim. My mother was ill and Father out of work. I needed to do something. I joined Western Union and developed an electronic voting recorder for quickly tallying votes in the legislature but no one seemed interested.
I needed to work luck for me. In 1869 I invented a Universal Stock Printer which impressed Gold and Stock Telegraph Company. They paid me $40,000 for the rights. Now I can work full time as an Inventor. There was no looking back.

Hard work definitely pays but smart work is equally important after all have you ever seen a worker, mason, barber getting richer? Don't we measure the level of success by money and popularity? That barber may get money when working hard but cannot get popularity until he is Javed Habib who did his work equally smartly rather intelligently.

You probably aren't still convinced that smart work+hard work=success?

Listen to what Abraham Lincoln has to say on this :


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           Anyway the key is to work rather than to cease !

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