Mr
Chopra
Felt
Ranveer
Would
Be
A
Better
Choice
"It
was
Raju's
idea
to
cast
Ranbir.
When
he
told
me
about
Ranbir,
I
wasn't
happy
at
all.
I
thought
someone
else,
like
Ranveer
Singh,
could
play
this
role
much
better.
I
thought
Ranveer
had
the
flamboyance,
the
emotional
depth
as
well
as
the
ability
to
change
himself
completely
to
play
Sanjay
Dutt."
Later,
Ranbir
Left
Him
Stunned!
"But
Raju
was
adamant
that
Ranbir
would
be
perfect.
And
when
we
started
shooting
and
Ranbir
became
Sanjay
Dutt,
I
had
to
kind
of
eat
my
words.
I
think
I
can
best
sum
this
up
by
saying
that
Ranbir
has
become
Sanjay
Dutt
both
in
swagger
and
soul," added
Mr
Chopra.
Vidhu
Vinod
Was
Also
Against
The
Idea
Of
'Sanju'
Admitting
that
he
initially
said
'no'
to
Sanju,
Vidhu
Vinod
Chopra
said,
"Yes,
I
did.
When
he
(Rajkumar
Hirani)
told
me,
I
was
like,
‘What's
there
in
Sanjay
Dutt's
life
that
merits
being
made
into
a
film?!
It's
better
you
make
a
film
on
my
life...
how
I
left
Kashmir
as
a
young
boy
and
struggled
when
I
came
to
Bombay.'
(Laughs)
I
thought
Raju
and
Abhijat
(Joshi,
Sanju's
co-writer)
had
lost
their
minds!"
VVC
Wanted
To
Make
Third
Part
Of
'Munna
Bhai'
Speaking
about
the
same,
he
told,
"At
that
time,
Sanjay
Dutt
had
just
come
out
of
jail
and
Raju
had
gone
to
speak
to
him
about
the
next
Munna
Bhai
film.
We
were
then
planning
to
make
‘Munna
Bhai
Chale
Jail'
and
I
sent
Raju
to
speak
to
Sanju
and
get
some
inputs
from
him.
But
Raju
came
back
with
something
else!"
VVC
Was
Stunned
With
The
Life
Story
Of
Sanjay
Dutt
"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!"
VVC
Reveals
An
Unknown
Fact
About
Munna
Bhai
M.B.B.S.
He
revealed,
"When
the
film
was
being
written,
I
discovered
a
Sanjay
Dutt
I
didn't
know...
a
Sunil
Dutt
I
didn't
know...
and
this
after
having
known
them
for
20-25
years.
I
was
stunned
to
know
that
the
scene
in
Munna
Bhai
MBBS
when
Dutt
saab
and
Sanju
cry
after
the
son
asks
the
father's
forgiveness
and
they
hug
each
other
was
actually
real...
that
they
were
crying
for
real."
He
Further
Added..
"Imagine
I
was
standing
there
on
the
set
of
Munna
Bhai
and
I
had
no
idea
they
were
actually
living
that
scene!
We
have
kept
it
in
the
film."
Isn't
these
revelations
by
Vidhu
Vinod
Chopra
surprisng?