Filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani revealed he shot additional portions for "Sanju", his biographical drama on Sanjay Dutt, to create empathy for the actor after people "hated" him in test screenings. Hirani said the initial edit featured the actor's story as it was and thus was not liked by people.

"During the shoot, I felt 'What am I doing, I'm going wrong.' In fact, when the first edit was ready and we screened for people, they hated him. They said we don't like this man, we don't want to watch him," he said. "Because I wanted to do a true story, I didn't create any empathy towards him. I said let's not create empathy and show (him) as he is. But later I understood that he is our hero, we need some empathy for him," the director added. Hirani said he had to add a certain scene in the film to create empathy for its lead character, which was not there earlier.