Ranbir Kapoor's Sanjay Dutt Biopic Goes On Floors Today, Rajkumar Hirani Cans A Funny Shot First!

Finally, the shooting of Ranbir Kapoor starrer Sanjay Dutt biopic kick started this morning.

By Madhuri

Rajkumar Hirani's much awaited biopic on Sanjay Dutt hit the shooting floors today. The film has Ranbir Kapoor stepping into Sanjay's shoes and the story will span over thirty years.

Hirani was quoted saying to Mumbai Mirror, "It goes on the floors today, January 14, and Sanju will give the clap. We are one big family. We hope to wrap it up by June and are targeting a Christmas 2017 release."

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Later as soon as the first shot for the film was canned, Hirani took to his Twitter handle and wrote...

The daily further had Hirani adding, "It's not a film about guns, drugs and the underworld. It's a feel-good film about a father-son relationship with Paresh Rawal playing Sunil Dutt and Ranbir as Sanju... A buddy film with Sanju's many friends adding up to one from the US, played by Vicky Kaushal."

As per the report in the daily, Hirani also reminisced his first meeting with Munna Bhai for the film. When Sanju was on parole, one day Hirani went around 5pm and stayed till 3am, listening to Sanjay talk about his unusual life, mesmerized. This routine continued for 25 days. Reportedly, by the time Sanjay returned to jail, Raju had 200 hours of recorded conversations with him and no intentions of turning it into a film. But Hirani asked his writer-partner Abhijat Joshi to fly down to Mumbai and after Sanjay had given him permission to tell his story truthfully, without glorifying him, started working on the script, cross-checking every detail.

On being asked why he chose Ranbir Kapoor to play Sanjay Dutt, the filmmaker said that there's something about the 34-year-old actor, like his droopy eyes, that reminds him of Sanjay from his Rocky days. Apparently, for the last six months, Ranbir has been prepping up for a role, which spans from 21 to 56 years. He has to put on 12 kgs!

Hirani added, "He has to put on a few more kilos before losing it all.The first time I saw him in get-up, I thought it was Sanju. I clicked him and sent it across to Sanju who wondered why I was sending him his own picture."

The director also revealed that Dutt will only be seen in the end credits - the day he left Yerwada Jail moment, which he shot last year. The biopic has Anushka Sharma playing a scribe, Sonam Kapoor summing up all the women whom Sanju has loved and 'Neerja' actor Jim Sarbh.

Reportedly, the film will lock horns at the box office with Salman Khan-Katrina Kaif's Tiger Zinda Hai on Christmas 2017. Did someone just mention 'battle of the exes'?

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