"Want To Lick Both Your Shoes": Ram Gopal Varma's Huge Praise For Ranbir Kapoor, Sandeep Reddy Vanga After Watching 'Animal'
'Satya' director Ram Gopal Varma had a lot to say about 'Animal'. Read on to know more.
You can love 'Animal', you can hate 'Animal' but you definitely cannot ignore it. The world cannot stop talking about the Sandeep Reddy Vanga-directorial starring Ranbir Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Rashmika Mandanna and Triptii Dimri in lead roles. The new Hindi film has generated polarising opinions, with some labelling the movie as "truly unique" while others are dissing it as "problematic" and "highly misogynistic".
In the latest entertainment news, 'Satya' director Ram Gopal Varma had a lot to say about 'Animal', and he uploaded his detailed review of the film on X (formerly Twitter).
"There will be massive fights over the content and the character of Ranbir in Animal long after its box office run is over and I truly believe it can also trigger a cultural overhaul due to the way Sandeep has ripped off the clothes of moral hypocrisy with his bare naked honesty. That is because Animal is not merely a film..it is a social statement," said Ram Gopal Varma.
In one scene of 'Animal', Ranbir Kapoor was seen operating a custom-made weapon he got made to annihilate his enemy. Ram Gopal Varma terms this scene as a "cinematic gem."
"One of my favourite moments is when against everyone’s expectations, including me in the audience was that he will come back with a baseball bat or something, but when he comes back with a machine gun that almost made us all fall off our chairs and that moment is a pure cinematic gem," said RGV.
"Some random comic scenes like the bra strap spanking, talking about sex with the doctors etc to name a few which seemingly have no context but what they really do is to subconsciously act as a sledgehammer to drive the protagonist’s character into the viewers' heads," he added.
My REVIEW of ANIMAL
— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) December 3, 2023
film https://t.co/zvamzjCFuN
For the unversed, in one scene in 'Animal', Ranbir Kapoor is fully naked, and talking about this, the director said, "More than him being physically naked in a particular scene, he was emotionally naked throughout the film in his performance which takes much more strength of mind than just being physically naked.”
Ram Gopal Varma shared his negative feedback too, saying he did not connect to the father-son relationship or the family rivalry. He said that he also did not like the scene where Ranbir's character asked Triptii Dimri to lick his shoe.
However, the director said that he is more than happy to lick Sandeep and Ranbir's shoes to show his appreciation for the film.
"I didn’t like the shot of Ranbir asking the girl to lick his shoe but for just that one jump cut from Anil’s last dialogue to the end titles camera zooming out shot showing Ranbir crying like a baby in Shakti Kapoor’s lap, I want to lick both your shoes.”
Talking about 'Animal', the Sandeep Reddy Vanga-directorial is wreaking havoc at the box office and it has already made more than Rs 200 crore at the domestic box office. Globally, the movie has made more than Rs 330 crore.
