’12th Fail’ wins best film at Toulouse Indian Film Festival
Discover the inspiring journey of '12th Fail' as it clinches the Best Film award at the Toulouse Indian Film Festival, reaffirming its universal appeal and acclaim.
Rajkumar Hirani’s Sanju’s teaser and trailer have created excitement among the fans and Ranbir Kapoor is receiving accolades for his portrayal as Sanjay Dutt. Earlier, Salman Khan had raised aspersions over Ranbir’s skills, much before that producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra had reservations on picking Ranbir Kapoor for the role.
In an interview with The Telegraph, he had expressed surprise at the very idea of making a film on Sanjay Dutt’s life.
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He said that at one point he thought “Rajkumar and Abhijat have lost their mind” when they came up with the idea. He said, “But when he sat me down and started narrating all that had happened in Sanju’s life, I was stunned! At first, I thought it was hogwash… that Sanju was somehow not telling Raju the truth, but when we started researching all that he’s said — from the 308 girlfriends he had to how he begged on the streets of US for the money to buy a bus ticket — we realised that everything he had told us was true!”
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Further, when asked about casting Ranbir Kapoor, he said, “It was Raju’s idea to cast Ranbir, I wasn’t happy at all. I thought someone else like Ranveer Singh, could play this role better. I thought Ranveer had flamboyance, the emotional depth as well as the ability to change him to play as Sanjay Dutt. But Raju was adamant that Ranbir would be perfect.”
“And when Ranbir started shooting and became Sanjay Dutt, I had to kind of eat my words.” Ranbir has fully gone into the mannerisms of Sanjay Dutt and has done full justice to the role. Sanju is slated to hit the theatres on 29 June 2018.
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