Where have I whitewashed Sanjay Dutt, asks Rajkumar Hirani on 'Sanju' criticism

Director Rajkumar Hirani has defended his latest film "Sanju", saying he made the biopic only after being convinced of controversial Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt's innocence.

Delivering at a masterclass on 'The making of 'Sanju'', being held as a part of the ongoing Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM), Hirani said he made the film only after an extensive research.

"All his life, he (Dutt) has been accused that he had stored RDX in his house...I have been through every Supreme court judgement, every judge and he has not been accused of that at all.''
"I am not defending Sanju. I am defending our film and I want to ask what was Sanju's crime... We have shown that he kept a gun. We have shown he destroyed a gun. We have shown that he was given five years for the jail and we have shown that he realises it was a mistake that he made. We have shown he took drugs to this extreme."