Rajkumar Hirani’s Sanju is still keeping it strong at the box office and becoming the 5th highest domestic grosser in India. It has collected 318.79crs after 21 days. The film has been criticised for being a mere PR tool to whitewash Sanjay Dutt’s image, there are some who absolutely loved it. “That Dutt was doing drugs, was traumatised by his mother’s battle with cancer, she died just three days before the release of his first film Rocky, had multiple flings, many of them one night stands, is all well documented,” said the source, adding that what people wanted was background information that only Sanjay would know on the controversy which dogged him for over two decades.
Meanwhile, director Ram Gopal Verma announced his desire to make another biopic on the life of Sanjay Dutt. The director feels that Sanjay Dutt’s biopic, Sanju just showed about the connection of possessing an AK-56 rifle around the 1993 Mumbai blast case. However, sources informed saying that Varma’s movie will focus only on this part of his life. It also suggests that the film has tentatively been titled, ‘Sanju: The Real Story’. Ram Gopal Varma confirmed the news and said, “Yes, I am making the film.”
Sanjay Dutt’s sister Namrata Dutt said, “Doesn’t Varma need Sanjay’s approval to make it? If Sanjay gives a go-ahead, we are nobody to say no to him.” Stating that it was “painful to watch” the Hirani-directed venture as it brought back the dark days that the family had been through, she says that another cinematic outing would only affect them further. “We have been through every phase of what Sanjay has gone through. When he became a drug addict, we at least knew that we could help him out of it by sending him to rehab. But we had no control over the other incident -going to jail. It was painful as we helplessly watched him suffer,” she recollects.
“It was an unfortunate episode in Sanjay’s life. He has moved past it. Why is Varma bringing up the past again?” Though Varma and Sanjay have collaborated on two films, Namrata states that she doesn’t trust the director’s gritty style of filmmaking. “His movies are dark. Why do you want to go on and on about Sanjay’s life? Why is he putting us through so much pain again?”
Ram Gopal Verma has not responded to her statement yet.
