I want to know what have I whitewashed? I have shown that he had 308 girlfriends, that he was so addicted to drugs, he slept with his friend’s girlfriend. Hirani went on: “People are using this word whitewash. So whatever is the crime is, is clearly shown.” He is destroying the gun, we have shown that, the bullets are thrown away, we are showing that. Joshi added: “The crime has been shown graphically. We have shown that he served five years in jail and that he is saying it was a mistake… So where is the question of whitewashing? What have I whitewashed? I want to understand that,” Hirani asked. “Yes, he kept the gun, and we have shown that. If you’ve watched the film, what was Sanju’s crime,” he counter-questioned.
“Whitewashing as a word is being thrown open. 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.
“When we show a corrupt police officer, it doesn’t mean all policemen are wrong… It’s a section,” he added.įrom Sanjay’s drug addiction, personal affairs, a jail term for possession of arms in connection with the 1993 serial blasts, to his bonds with his parents and friends - Sanju has delved into different aspects of the actor’s life but has also left out a lot. But now when we are told that the whole film is about media bashing, it’s again picking up a headline,” Hirani said. “Today if the world believes that he had RDX, it’s based on that one news, so we have criticised that.
The reference is in context to a scene featuring a newspaper cutting titled “RDX in a truck parked in Dutt house?” This question mark journalism is their problem. No one has even said that it happens,” Joshi said. That has been critiqued, and I am amazed there has been no introspection on that side. “What we are bashing is a certain section which sensationalises things and uses a question mark to make things ‘chatpata’ (spicy).