Rajkumar Hirani, whose next is a biopic on his Munnabhai star Sanjay Dutt, believes the actor’s life story would translate better in the fiction format. 

Ranbir Kapoor plays the lead role in the movie. Asked if the Dutt biopic could’ve been turned into a documentary, Hirani said: “In a film like Sanju, I think it’s more engaging as a fictional film where you see another actor doing it. Otherwise, I can just say, ‘Ok, here’s a man who did drugs, did this’… it’s boring,” he said at an event. 

“I feel biopics are more interesting if you see them in a fictional format, otherwise they get boring,” Hirani said, adding that the medium of documentary suits certain subjects better and he experienced this with his film PK. 

“Certain subjects will be more engaging if they are done in a fictional format. Certain subjects will probably say more in a documentary format. In PK, I wanted to talk about God and religion. But in the journey of making the film, I realised that

I ended up talking very little about it. There is so much to talk about God and religion that a film format isn’t enough. In a fiction format, you are expected to tell your story, entertain them and still manage to say what you want to. At some stage, I do want to make a documentary,” said the 3 Idiots director.