By now, you must have read the gazillion of articles out about both Sanjay Dutt and Ranbir Kapoor. ‘Sanju’ previously titled ‘Dutt’ is some sort of light biopic about the life of Sanjay Dutt. The role of Sanjay is played by Ranbir Kapoor. It is titled ‘Sanju’ because Sanjay Dutt’s mom, the late Nargis, used to call him that. It’s a good thing ‘Sanju’ was her nickname for him because most of us get animals’ names as our nicknames! We know we are late to report on this, but what to do. We said we would it hence here it is. So, apologies to the ones or the one who requested it.
‘Sanju’ is definitely an attempt to clean up Sanjay Dutt’s image. Before, when the teaser had released, we mentioned that it looked like an attempt to bring Sanju back and make him popular again, but after all these articles and subsequent videos that came out, it is clear that this film is an appeal to the public to make them all remember the Khalnayak actor or the Saajan innocent guy. Whether this film flops or becomes a hit, Sanjay Dutt will come out as a winner. Well, to be fair he will come out as a winner only to those who failed to see through whatever rainbow filter Rajkumar Hirani had on while shooting this film.
Sure, Sanju’s life is quite something but like we mentioned before, it’s hard to feel bad for someone who brought it all on himself. Hirani, who is a softie himself, was blown away by what Sanju went through and it’s why he decided to work on a script based on Sanju’s life story. Like when he made ‘Munnabhai’, he saw the fun side to the whole story and not the cheating or conning people side. That is just the way he sees things, like an admirer looking from the outside and just admiring what he’s seeing without thinking too much of it. That is Raju Hirani for you.
During the whole promotion period of ‘Sanju’, two things were commonly spoken about and were even highlighted/sent out from the producers/film’s marketing team to the media.
The first is the epic Ranbir Kapoor-Alia Bhatt fake love story. We realised the other day that Ranbir cannot promote his films without sounding ridiculous. He is alright at the beginning but then he goes on a verbal diarrhea rampage. The things that shoot out of his mouth sound both unbelievable and ridiculous. You don’t know whether he is high or he is purposely saying these things to mess with people. One thing was sure, though. When you see his interviews, he seems to be on autopilot mode. Like he is prepared to answer the usual questions he is asked, but when he is asked something new, he doesn’t know how to answer; he tries to think and then ends up giving a ridiculous answer. If he doesn’t like promoting films this much, he can just do it like Salman Khan or Aamir Khan. This is also probably the first time, he has been sent out on his own to promote his films.
The second are the Sanjay Dutt articles. Clearly, the person who has written them must have lived a very quiet life and must also be a man. Why? Because of this:
Note that it’s not “dating” women but “sleeping” with women! Guess he didn’t have the needed charm back then to pull this off by himself. In case you didn’t know, his mother being a Muslim had a burial according to Islamic rituals.
So, he is that good of a con that he managed to hide behind the likes of so-called casanovas like Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgan! No wonder, he said he will break his daughter’s legs if she gets into films. Remember, we told you guys here that actors, who don’t want their daughters to join the industry, are most likely the ones, who have preyed on actresses.
This just keeps getting better and better. We all know he was a drug addict, but when did he become a sex addict?
Whoever thought of using this to promote this film, hats off to you. Before all this, we thought Sanju was a good man who has been wronged. Now, all that is coming out is just making him look like a spoilt brat, drug addict, rich kid and a freaking grown-up man who does what he wants without thinking of the consequences. All the reasons he gave for his behaviour or for his misdoings don’t make sense. Had these happen to a normal person, that person would have been locked up forever or been dead. He is lucky he had the support of his father and sisters whenever he got in trouble. Speaking of his family, while sharing the teaser we spoke about how his dad and sister teared up on Simi Garewal’s show while talking about how Sanju got in trouble and how he became an addict.
It is understandable you do certain things as a naive teenager without a care for the world, but how do you explain getting in serious trouble as a grown-up adult? When you have a wife and daughter? When your wife got cancer and fought her battle alone while you were busy chasing your heroine 24/7. When your wife recovered from cancer and came back to an empty home because you couldn’t care less for her now that you had the attention of this heroine? To think that he is telling people that he took drugs because his mother was sick with cancer, but when his wife got cancer he got busy with other women?
This reeks of extreme spoilt brat behaviour and Sanju being the only son pretty much got his way in the family. To think that he is the only son out of three kids and yet he gave his family so much trouble! An old friend of Sanjay Dutt, probably an ex-friend, complained to Subhash K Jha about this:
The media is already calling out the similarities between Ranbir’s relationship with his father and Sanju’s relationship with his dad. Apparently, their mistakes is a blame-it-on-the-mother type of syndrome!
‘Sanju’s teaser was a light one, as in they were trying to make everything that happened light. We all thought that perhaps the trailer will be a little heavier, but that was not the case. If this was a Ram Gopal Varma film, it would have been the real thing and more. So, the trailer starts with a little introduction from Ranbir. His voice sounds a lot like when he did ‘Ajab Prem Ki Gazab Kahani’. When he plays this kind of roles, he employs this type of voice.
First things first. When we watched the trailer, we couldn’t help but think if drug addicts remember their past? Like, do they remember what really happened or did they blackout during that time? If they didn’t blackout, we are sure their memory won’t be the same because of the treatments they have to go through to get rid of this addiction. Most of the films is about Sanju and can only be told by him, so how much of all this is true? How much did he make up in his head and how much did Raju create just for cinematic effect?
Did he really sleep with more than 300 women? If he was a sex addict, would he count the number of women he slept with? Don’t know why, this is reminding us of Leo DiCapucino. See, he is almost like an addict too. He himself said that he is scared that one day his dong dong will fall off because of how fast he goes from one woman/girl to another. In fact, we remember this one time at the Cannes Film Festival, he had a bet with someone there that he can get at least 8 girls to sleep with him that night. And, he did! What do you call this type of men? Unattached, unemotional or in need of a 100 hard slaps by their mothers? Or perhaps, by a police officer:
white people know nothing! sometimes a slap at the right moment can go a long way.
Back to the hallucination part, when those gulab jamuns were coming out of the potty in jail, did it really happen? Only asking because we have never heard of this before. If Sanju is implying that they did it on purpose, we doubt that it’s possible. Like, someone is down there under the ground pushing a spatula up the pipe. Nah! Coincidentally, this gulab jamun scene has been cut from the final version because the censor board said sales of samosas and popcorn will go down after watching this scene on the big screen. Don’t worry, we won’t show you that scene, but here’s a similar one.
Must have been a Louis Vuitton toilet seat!
His problems are more like rich people’s problems, rich spoilt brats – to be exact. We remember and we are sure many of you have been through the same thing. When you get mad at your parents, you go into your room and sulk. If you don’t have a room, you just sulk and don’t eat your food. Where does someone get drugs from a dealer at a moment like this? How does it work? Did he save up those special drugs in his drawer and decided to try it the first time he got mad at his dad?
Naturally, the whole terrorist thing is just whitewashed. Seriously, though. Ask yourself this question. You are friends with a known underworld don, you know he is a don and that he does bad things, including killing people. How dumb or ignorant can you be to agree to take this don’s weapons and keep it with you just because he asked you to?
Let’s not forget the long transcripts available on Sanju’s conversations with Chota Shakeel. Sanju was still in touch with him after he was sentenced to jail the first time. These two chatted like BFFs. Chota Shakeel sure liked being friends with a celebrity and Sanju was too dumb to see that. Maybe he was threatened, but Sanju too complained to him about how Govinda came late to work. He was promised that won’t happen again and the same don discussed killing Hrithik Roshan with Sanju. Was he still high during that time that he didn’t understand all this?
Still, he was in denial when he was first sent to jail. According to Aloo Paratha ki papa, this is what happened:
Sanju spoke about this scene some time back
Going by the way he got married to his girlfriends and then leaving them sounds like an impulse that he acts on that he later doesn’t know how to handle. Basically, he does what he wants without consulting anyone because he has always been allowed to.
Sometimes we wonder that if all of his misbehaviours were commited by his one of his sisters, what would have been Sanju’s reaction? Would he have broken her leg? To think that his sisters, their families and his dad had to make their lives all about Sanju because of all the troubles that he was in. As a human being, it’s not easy to sleep peacefully at night knowing that one of your own that you love is in jail. Not to mention how they must have been traumatised by all of this.
Frankly speaking, a movie on Sanjay Dutt’s father would have been much more interesting to watch. It’s why Paresh Rawal looks well-suited for this role; he is looking so young despite being well over 60. Honestly, any actor would have looked good playing Sunil Dutt. It could have been Nana Patekar or Boman Irani, they would have all worked in playing this character. When the character itself is a good character, you can’t go wrong. Sunil Dutt was quite a legend, in a good way. He sent Sanju to the best rehab centres in the world and when Sanju refused to get better, this is what he did:
Sunil Dutt’s love story with Nargis was a well-told tale. Shah Rukh Khan re-enacted that scene in ‘Om Shanti Om’ when he jumped into the fire to save Deepika Padukone. Sunil Dutt genuinely cared about his role as a politician. He genuinely cared about helping people and promoting peace. He was known to walk miles just to prove his point. Even when he died, he went away peacefully:
If you want to know more about the late Sunil Dutt, do check out THIS lovely article about him. We have all heard how Sanju has a big heart and people love him, but now it is clear that all of this comes from the respect and love that people have for his parents. We can’t really trust any good deed that Sanju did because he was high all the time. It’s no wonder Maanyata said Sanju used to give out money to his friends whenever they asked and he doesn’t even remember how much he gave or to whom. Speaking of Maanyu, hopefully they will show how Maanyata met Sanju in this film because neither of them had spoken about it before. You know, how she had a husband and kid before she dumped them for Sanju. That would be interesting.
Now that we think about it, Sanju is Bollywood’s Sean Penn minus the woman-beater tag. Sean Penn too is hailed as one of the good guys, who does a lot of charity. He was a drug addict too and because of that he used to physically abuse his ex-wife and his ex-girlfriend Madonna. He even beat her one day with a baseball bat and then tied her to a chair to stop her from escaping. That’s how crazy he was. It’s why Charlize Theron made him sign a contract to ensure that he won’t lift a finger on her and her child during the time that they were a couple. The other similarity Sanju and Sean have is how their looks severely deteriorated over the years. They both look like ripe tomatoes in the face area, you know the ones that the knife won’t go through because the skin is worn out and if you are not careful, you might end up cutting yourself!
UPDATE:
Apparently, a lot of true articles regarding Sanjay Dutt’s life have disappeared online. Instead, they want artificial articles like the one below to be online for people to read:
Before we close this up, thank you for reading and sorry again for the delay. Those, who have watched ‘Sanju’, please share your thoughts with others here.