Problem with Raju Hirani

I know he is considered best director, I like his movies.

Great insight Mr. Himmo

If it ain't broken, don't fix it.

How many serious movies have made 300 crores?

The problem I have with Raju Hirani movies is 1stly he copies a lot from other movies. Even jokes are copied.

After Sanju, I don't have faith in Raju Hirani as an audience. And the over rated collection of his movies, it's a pandora's Box really.

sanju was an average movie and I am also to be blamed for watching this movie and helping it gross 300 crs which it does not deserve

So I checked his Wiki page.
Munna bhai movies were great. I have no complaints with them.
3 Idiots- definitely my fav movie out of the lot- but heavily inspired from Chetan Bhagat's novel 5 point someone. Funnily I read the novel way before the movie released and I liked the movie more than his novel coz it dealt with additional issues and tbh it was funnier though thapads to Vidhu Vinod chopra for not accepting that it was an adaptation coz movie had same jokes too from the novel and not just scenarios.
PK- This is where the problem started imo. PK was a khichdi. People who made the movie OMG knew exactly what to do with a theme like that, problem isn't about comedy, OMG also had it but about the treatment, don't reduce the element of seriousness to a joke, Heck! I still don't know why did he keep a one sided love track between PK and Anushka. That's just dumb.
As for Sanju, everybody knows it is not a movie but an advertisement campaign for Sanjay Dutt. Raju Hirani's worst imo. Raju Hirani is famous for that excellent repeat value in his movies which he tried to put in this movie too with gags like Ghapaghap like you mentioned but unfortunately, atleast in my case, it didn't work.

Anyway, imo, It's okay to use comedy as a tool to talk about serious issues for example Hannah Gadsby's Nannette on Netflix, such a tight powerful set but it is not okay to reduce to jokes which Hirani kinda did in his previous 2 movies.

the movie is the third highest grossing movie of all time, it must have done something right, I think the movie was quite depressing, if it had been anymore confronting it would not have worked, laughter is important.

For me Sanju is an average movie at best from whatever scenes I came across online. Every scene was infused with annoying unfunny comedy that takes away from the seriousness of the situations.