As part of his preparation for the role, Ranbir had to gain more than 13 kilos, which comprises of muscle and no fat to match up with the muscular physique of Sanjay Dutt. The untitled biopic will be the first one to be made on a Bollywood star.
Sanjay has given around 200 hours of recording as basic matter for the biopic. Sanjay even spoke about watching Ranbir Kapoor transform into Sanjay Dutt in front of his eyes. “It feels good to see Ranbir and know that a biopic is being made on me. I think it’s been an interesting life,” he told a magazine.
Ranbir Kapoor will be seen portraying three phases of Sanjay Dutt’s life in which he will be seen in three avatars with a beefy body, and then a lean look from the 90’s, and the third avatar will showcase his phase in drug rehab.
In this biopic, Paresh Rawal is playing Sunil Dutt’s role, Sonam Kapoor plays Sanjay’s earlier love interest. Vicky Kaushal is his friend from the US, Anushka Sharma essays the role of a journalist and Manisha Koirala plays Nargis - Sanjay’s mother - whose death in 1981 from pancreatic cancer, affected him deeply.
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