Big screen gloss

Not so surprisingly, biopics centred on women have been far more absorbing

I don’t usually bother myself with most biopics by Indian filmmakers. They are usually hagiographic and steer clear of anything that remotely discomfit the subject because the Indian public can take offence at anything that’s thrown at them regarding their favourite celebrities. Despite these reservations, I watched Rajkumar Hirani's Sanju and, as expected, he dished out a very sanskari version of the life of the enfant terrible of Hindi cinema, Sanjay Dutt.

Ranbir Kapoor is transcendentally batty as the man possessed by multiple demons. His fantastically overdone ham as the cocaine-snorting, skirt-chasing next-big-thing of Bollywood is as edgy as Hirani is