Pakistan, March 23 -- Bollywood stars like Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan may have legendary careers and staggering worldwide fame, but there is good reason why - of all the living actors that could have been the subject of a Bollywood biopic - it's Sanjay Dutt who emerged as a viable choice for 'Sanju'.

The son of the iconic 'Mother India', actress Nargis and actor/activist/politician Sunil Dutt, Sanjay Dutt's life includes tragedy, drama, crime and redemption in spades-in short, it's the stuff movies are made of.

Given Sanjay's highly publicised missteps, writer-director Rajkumar Hirani and co-writer Abhijat Joshi seem well aware that it would be foolish to unabashedly glorify Bollywood's "bad boy" in fact, in the very first scene...