Quote:- "... hilarious and heartbreaking exploration of one man’s battle against his own wild self and ..." - hilarious and heartbreaking indeed, and superb.
Hard as it is to gain muscles or lose weight, the surprising fundamental similarity of face structure was important to begin with, and the capability of the artist to portray a character mattered - and of course, the protagonist helping wasn't the least.
Never thought one could like a film by this guy, the director. Until this one. Not due to being a fan of the protagonist, either. But RK Jr is always artist par excellence, chip off the old RK! Family tradition at that, grandchildren taking after a grandparent.
One sees the film without expectations or adulation, if one is a fan of neither the director nor particularly the subject - although being open about the subject helps - and one is seeing it partly from curiosity about its being a blockbuster, partly because one has high opinion of the artist playing the protagonist.
One is pleasantly surprised at the turns, the unexpected hilarious moments in so far from ideal or idyllic a life, and finally left wondering why this confused young person was so very targeted. Why there is so much of hate comments on internet about this film and it's subject. Did they not see It?
Some time later, though, it hits one why - why it's hated by so many, why one hasn't done a turnabout in one's negative opinion of the director, despite the surprise of liking a film of his. That is because, as usual, he has poured venom in this film too, and this time the target he aims at is huge.
This film isn't vilifying medical professionals, or faculty of high ranking technology institutions. Here in this film he is gone political, and not just vilifying a party or a bouquet of parties in the political spectrum of india. It is vilifying majority of the nation.
Well done, Hirani, although you have only sold your motherland, and not quite scraped the bottom of the abyss. Not yet. That would be when he does it to all mothers, and one couldn't safely bet he won't.
When the riots happened, and the news about Sanjay Dutt the son of a very respected couple, MP Sunil Dutt and ex MP Nargis Dutt, having possessed an assault weapon illegally and being in custody, this news had exploded, he had explained it describing the situation in detail.
Much of it is in the film, except that the director gas conveniently changed some details, cutting out some vital ones, making it all one sided.
From what one recalls, the family had received appeals for help from riot victims on both sides, and was helping both sides. Here the director shows Sunil Dutt helping only the minority, despite his being not part of it, and the implicit message is thereby to the effect that minority were the exclusive victims. This is far from true, and it's a picture favoured only by fraudulent for propaganda against India.
And the threats he is frightened by are shown as emanating from one side, which again was unlikely, but the next part gets more intricate.
The guys who brought him the assault weapons are mentioned only by name, never labelled underworld dons that they were even if small fry, and while he is shown helped by someone of minority to dispose it off, the news had to get to the law only because one of the said underworld weapon suppliers squealed after being picked up by the police in context of the riots.
That was due to their involvement in the riots and killings, which isn't mentioned. But the director does take care to have a whole scene about the protagonist disassociating from what seems to be a goon in politics, from the majority, at risk of life, because his father wished it.
Surely his father Mr Dutt couldn't have wished his association with the underworld dons of the minority to continue? There is no mention about any of that. And there are many such omissions, including his first two wives and his eldest child. But there is more, along the director's political agenda lines.
If one wishes to see the protagonist Sanjay Dutt himself, one excellent site is the 58th episode of Saregamapa Little Champs 2017, where he is a guest.
Apart from his candid speaking and sincere demeanour with a humility that's very real, one little detail that's remarkable about his talks in this episode is him mentioning he read most of chief ancient Hindu scriptures during his prison stint, the last time that he was in.
This, the film does not mention. At all.
.................................................
Responding to a comment below another yt video, by Puneet Gandhi:-
"Ranbir Kapoor is 500% better than Varun Dhawan, Arjun Kapoor... But he didn't get good scripts... After Ae Dil Hai Mushkil nd SANJU,, He proved he is best actor of this generation"
He's on the whole done good films with good scripts, even if they weren't blockbusters, a part from a rare YJHD. To say he hasn't got good scripts would be not quite true.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YkBgmse4lQs
Hard as it is to gain muscles or lose weight, the surprising fundamental similarity of face structure was important to begin with, and the capability of the artist to portray a character mattered - and of course, the protagonist helping wasn't the least.
Never thought one could like a film by this guy, the director. Until this one. Not due to being a fan of the protagonist, either. But RK Jr is always artist par excellence, chip off the old RK! Family tradition at that, grandchildren taking after a grandparent.
One sees the film without expectations or adulation, if one is a fan of neither the director nor particularly the subject - although being open about the subject helps - and one is seeing it partly from curiosity about its being a blockbuster, partly because one has high opinion of the artist playing the protagonist.
One is pleasantly surprised at the turns, the unexpected hilarious moments in so far from ideal or idyllic a life, and finally left wondering why this confused young person was so very targeted. Why there is so much of hate comments on internet about this film and it's subject. Did they not see It?
Some time later, though, it hits one why - why it's hated by so many, why one hasn't done a turnabout in one's negative opinion of the director, despite the surprise of liking a film of his. That is because, as usual, he has poured venom in this film too, and this time the target he aims at is huge.
This film isn't vilifying medical professionals, or faculty of high ranking technology institutions. Here in this film he is gone political, and not just vilifying a party or a bouquet of parties in the political spectrum of india. It is vilifying majority of the nation.
Well done, Hirani, although you have only sold your motherland, and not quite scraped the bottom of the abyss. Not yet. That would be when he does it to all mothers, and one couldn't safely bet he won't.
When the riots happened, and the news about Sanjay Dutt the son of a very respected couple, MP Sunil Dutt and ex MP Nargis Dutt, having possessed an assault weapon illegally and being in custody, this news had exploded, he had explained it describing the situation in detail.
Much of it is in the film, except that the director gas conveniently changed some details, cutting out some vital ones, making it all one sided.
From what one recalls, the family had received appeals for help from riot victims on both sides, and was helping both sides. Here the director shows Sunil Dutt helping only the minority, despite his being not part of it, and the implicit message is thereby to the effect that minority were the exclusive victims. This is far from true, and it's a picture favoured only by fraudulent for propaganda against India.
And the threats he is frightened by are shown as emanating from one side, which again was unlikely, but the next part gets more intricate.
The guys who brought him the assault weapons are mentioned only by name, never labelled underworld dons that they were even if small fry, and while he is shown helped by someone of minority to dispose it off, the news had to get to the law only because one of the said underworld weapon suppliers squealed after being picked up by the police in context of the riots.
That was due to their involvement in the riots and killings, which isn't mentioned. But the director does take care to have a whole scene about the protagonist disassociating from what seems to be a goon in politics, from the majority, at risk of life, because his father wished it.
Surely his father Mr Dutt couldn't have wished his association with the underworld dons of the minority to continue? There is no mention about any of that. And there are many such omissions, including his first two wives and his eldest child. But there is more, along the director's political agenda lines.
If one wishes to see the protagonist Sanjay Dutt himself, one excellent site is the 58th episode of Saregamapa Little Champs 2017, where he is a guest.
Apart from his candid speaking and sincere demeanour with a humility that's very real, one little detail that's remarkable about his talks in this episode is him mentioning he read most of chief ancient Hindu scriptures during his prison stint, the last time that he was in.
This, the film does not mention. At all.
.................................................
Responding to a comment below another yt video, by Puneet Gandhi:-
"Ranbir Kapoor is 500% better than Varun Dhawan, Arjun Kapoor... But he didn't get good scripts... After Ae Dil Hai Mushkil nd SANJU,, He proved he is best actor of this generation"
He's on the whole done good films with good scripts, even if they weren't blockbusters, a part from a rare YJHD. To say he hasn't got good scripts would be not quite true.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YkBgmse4lQs
