With Rajkumar Hirani’s biopic on Sanjay Dutt set to release on June 29 this year, the team is bumping up the excitement factor. With most of the shoot complete, barring minor patchwork, promotion plans for the film are being put in place. Among these is the shooting of a special promotional video planned for the end of February, which will apparently have Ranbir Kapoor in conversation with Sanjay Dutt.

Hirani, who is one of B-town’s most successful filmmakers, is keen to get the audience to know Dutt in a closer way and what better than over some great candid conversation! This video will help set the tempo of the film, and is sure to be a huge draw.Sanjay and Ranveer, who essays him onscreen, will indulge in a freewheeling chat about life, and we can be sure that it is going to be engaging from word go. Dutt is known to never mince words, whether good or bad, and does not believe in avoiding uncomfortable questions about his tumultuous life.

What’s more, the two have achieved a high level of closeness. Ranbir had spent considerable time with Dutt, getting to know him in a deeper way so as to bring him to life onscreen as realistically as possible.

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Ranbir had spoken about the prep put in, maintaining, “We worked really hard at it, doing four months of prosthetic (make-up) trials, lots of disappointments, thinking that it’s not going to work out. But you need to put in that time and effort. It’s a daunting task to play someone like Sanjay Dutt, who everybody knows anyway.”

He had also shared what it felt like playing Dutt in front of Dutt himself… “It was surreal for me. You’re acting like him, and the director calls cut, you look up, and suddenly there’s Sanjay Dutt actually sitting behind the monitor! But then I’d got so obsessed with him. Every time I’d see him, I’d start observing him like a hawk — the way he scratches his beard, twitches his eye, drinks water, hugs… It’d become a bit of a sickness for me. But that obsession is necessary for acting, or any form of art — that madness to get something right. You may still fall flat on your face, but it’s necessary.”