Rajkumar Hirani responds to allegations of whitewashing Sanjay Dutt's life in Sanju
Whitewashing, media bashing, and glorification. “If I start on that, I can talk on it for the full day,” Rajkumar Hirani told IANS in Melbourne when asked to comment on talks about the media bashing in Sanju, which is playing at the ninth edition of the International Film Festival of Melbourne here. Hirani, who has hits like Munna Bhai series, 3 Idiots and PK to his credit, also wonders why is there talk that he has “whitewashed” Sanjay through Sanju. “It is ridiculous because if money was the criteria, we would have made 5 Munnabhais back-to-back… They would have been bigger hits, or 3 Idiots parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.” Hirani said when he was making the movie, he was told by people that Sanju will mark his “first flop” as Sanjay was a negative character. “Now when the film has been made, everything is reversed that this has been made for money.” Joshi questioned: “Do you think Rajkumar Hirani, at this time in his career, would spend 3 years of his life just to whitewash somebody?” What upsets them is “people have not introspected” at all.
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