Rajkumar Hirani’s next big venture - the Sanjay Dutt biopic starring Ranbir Kapoor as the controversial Khalnayak actor began on Saturday.
Hirani tweeted yesterday morning that he had taken the first shot of the film and that the entire team was buzzing with excitement. The clap for the first shot was reportedly given by Sanjay Dutt himself.
Actress Dia Mirza shared a picture from the sets of the film which had Ranbir, writer Abhijat Joshi, Hirani, Mirza and actor Vicky Kaushal cutting a cake.
Hirani reportedly got hooked on to the the idea of making a film on Sanjay Dutt’s life after having a marathon story telling session over days about the controversial actor’s life. At the end of the session which continued for 25 days, the filmmaker had about 200 hours of recorded conversation with Dutt, which he then used to script the biopic.
The final draft script was of course decided on only after Dutt himself gave it a nod, after (we assume) scanning it for anything that could be too sensational, private or exceedingly controversial.
As of now we know that while Ranbir will be playing Dutt, Paresh Rawal has been signed on to play his late father, actor and politician Sunil Dutt. Actress Anushka Sharma will be seen as a journalist in the film and Sonam Kapoor will reportedly portray the women in Dutt’s life. The actress to play Dutt’s mom, actress Nargis, is yet to be finalised.
Recently, Hirani had said that when he finally narrated the entire script to Sanjay Dutt, he was happy to see that Dutt laughed and cried through the narration. It was apparently an emotional moment for the filmmaker as he had not yet seen Dutt cry.
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