If there is any Bollywood movie that has made me quite excited for 2018, it is Sanju. Directed by the blockbuster maker Rajkumar Hirani, Sanju is the much-anticipated biopic of the controversial Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt. Ranbir Kapoor is playing the main lead, Dutt himself, and that movie has the potential to catapult him back to superstardom, after back to back debacles have slowed down his career.

Sanjay Dutt's controversial life is quite well-known, right from his drug abuse in his early days, to his chaotic romantic life to his arrest and later jail in the TADA case in the 1993 Bombay Blasts. Rajkumar Hirani, who has worked with Dutt in the Munnabhai series and PK, has promised the viewers that the movie will be an impartial take on the actor's life. We don't know about that yet but it definitely looks to be quite humorous in true Hirani style and quite revelatory too, like if you want to know how many girlfriends Sanjay Dutt had! Also Ranbir looks awesome!

The makers have also released the first official poster of the movie and it has Ranbir Kapoor portraying Dutt from various stages of life. So there is Ranbir as Dutt in his teen days, his Khalnayak days, his jailbird phase and his look after he was released from jail. And God! Ranbir looks so close to resembling Dutt! Fab job by the makeup team there. The teagline is interesting too - One man, many lives!

Sanju also stars Anushka Sharma, Sonam Kapoor, Vicky Kaushal, Jim Sarbh, Paresh Rawal and Manisha Koirala. Sanju is scheduled to release in India on June 29.

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