In last year’s Sanju, the soft-focus biopic on Sanjay Dutt by Rajkumar Hirani that went on to become a monster hit, there’s no mention of director Mahesh Manjrekar’s Vaastav: The Reality. Opening a street food stall, one day Raghu accidentally kills a bully who happens to be an underworld gang leader’s brother. But, in a moment that elevates the film from a Nirupa Roy tearjerker to goose-bumpy noir, the mother uses a gun. The tropes of a Bollywood gangster film, including gang wars, politician-underworld-cop nexus, and staged encounters, are overused. From a wise-cracking, good-natured, bumbling soul, to a hunter, to the hunted, Raghu goes through a lot.

Source: The Telegraph October 11, 2019 12:11 UTC