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.