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 "'Didn't watch it in theatres, commendable how Sandeep Reddy Vanga…'")
Emraan Hashmi is the latest celebrity to talk about Ranbir Kapoor’s Animal, a film that continues to be the hot topic of debate. In a podcast with Subhankar Mishra, the actor praised director Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s audacity to tell this story. He also confessed he didn’t watch the film in cinemas but on OTT.
Hashmi said, “I don’t watch a lot of films but I have watched Animal and I think its commendable how he played a character, with grey shades and is not easy to like, with such conviction. This is commendable.”
Animal , which hit the screens on December 1, was one of the highest earning Hindi films of 2023 despite being criticised for its poor portrayal of women, misogyny and graphic violence.
Directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga , the action drama had its digital premiere on Netflix last week. The film also stars Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Rashmika Mandanna and Triptii Dimri.
In a video shared on Netflix India’s YouTube page, Ranbir said: “There is a very healthy conversation that has started about toxic masculinity, which is a great thing because cinema, at least, it starts a conversation. If something is wrong, if you don’t show that it is wrong, and unless conversation starts in the society, we will never realise it.” Actors need to be “empathetic” towards the characters they play, he added.
In “ Animal ”, Ranbir played Ranvijay, a violent man who sets out to avenge an assassination attempt on his estranged father (Anil Kapoor). Deol played the antagonist Abrar Haque, a menacing mute gangster.
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