Sanjay nails the take, utterly unimpeded by Hemalessness. Instead, the Gabbar page has no consequence whatsoever. Yet another would be to show that he didn’t take a drag of a cigarette but instead a hit of marijuana, which relaxed him for the shot, so it was the drugs and not the movies, which would also explain the star’s heavy-lidded eyes we remember from those early songs. Another is that Sanjay looks past the Gabbar picture and smiles at some girl on the sets, basically establishing his womanising interests early on, and completes the take properly. The most obvious one is that Sanjay’s expressions start faltering when he sees Gabbar, causing the spotboy to panic, and hurry to find the right page to save the take. Now there are a few clever ways to resolve this scene cinematically. Sanjay starts the shot and merrily blows kisses at the photograph, the plan working till the magazine falls from the spotboy’s hand and he accidentally holds up a picture of Malini’s Sholay co-star, Gabbar Singh.
When he returns for another attempt, the cameraman has an idea, and asks the spotboy to stand next to the camera holding a copy of Stardust open to a picture of Hema Malini. Meanwhile Sanjay sneaks a furtive drag of a cigarette. Dutt Sr laughs this off and says actors have to pretend, making goo-goo eyes at the spotboy to prove his point. In it a young Sanjay Dutt (the Ranbir Kapoor cover version) is having trouble lip-syncing to a romantic song, protesting to father Sunil Dutt that he can’t gaze romantically at the cameraman. There is a scene in Rajkumar Hirani’s Sanju which starts off cute. (Please don’t consider that a dare, filmmakers.) We look at it now to reassure ourselves that things can only get better from here.
There were some solid clunkers - from the juvenile jingoism of Satyameva Jayate to the inanely worded Race 3, from the pointless excess of Thugs Of Hindostan to the unwatchable Namaste England - but there is only one champion catastrophe. Before we head back into reviewing action next week, here’s a column damning the worst Hindi film of 2018. The first week of 2019 is awfully quiet with no significant Hindi film release.
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