Ranbir Kapoor addresses Animal's ‘toxic masculinity’ criticism and more in new video

In a new interview, the cast of Sandeep Reddy Vanga's Animal got together and decoded many new aspects about the father-son drama

Sandeep Reddy Vanga's Animal was one the most talked-about films of last year. It released on Netflix on January 26, and now the cast of the film- including Ranbir Kapoor, Bobby Deol and Anil Kapoor sat down for an interview with Anubhav Singh Bassi; where they talked in detail about the violent and dark world of the film.

Animal was not met with favourable reviews after release, where many slammed the film for being misogynist and glorifying toxic masculinity. Ranbir addressed the point and said, “There is a very healthy conversation that has started about toxic masculinity also, 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.”

Bobby Deol asked Ranbir whether he got tired after shooting so much action in Animal, to which he said: “No, because this was the first chance I got to do action like this. Both of you have done so many action films, this is technically my first film.” Bobby adds, “It is like you have got rid of all the frustration here,” “Yes, all of it!” Ranbir says

Further expanding on the action in Animal, Ranbir Kapoor said that Sandeep Reddy Vanga has an unique sense of how to shoot action. He is unlike the other directors who would keep an action sequence in the middle. But Sandeep adds a story within that action sequence. “The interval sequence has a graph. The climax fight where he used B Praak's song, I think that's very novel. While audience is watching the film, they like the fact that this isn't a typical action film. Every moment has an originality and a meaning,” added Ranbir.