Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal was released a week ago and was declared a blockbuster hit on its opening day. Animal is Sandeep’s third directorial venture after Arjun Reddy and Kabir Singh. Much like his previous films, Animal also became the subject of controversy for its misogynistic and problematic scenes. In one of the most controversial scenes of the movie, a young Ranbir Kapoor enters his sister’s college with a gun to teach a lesson to those who ragged her. Saloni Batra, who plays Ranbir’s sister in the film, recently defended the scene.
Speaking to Bollywood Hungama, Saloni said, “I’m an artist; I’m here to be a part of storytelling. As you can see, people are loving the film; they’re appreciating everything—how sir has put everything together, what people are feeling when they’re sitting in the theatre and watching the film with the background score, with the dialogues, with whatever is happening.”
She continued, “Of course, the characters are flawed, but you make stories on flawed characters. These are inspirations, and hence, you put them on the screen to show them to the audience to sit and enjoy in a theatre. Sandeep sir is so legendary with his craft, with his filmmaking, he knows how to reach the audience. Obviously, a character who has not gotten love from his father is going to be flawed. When we write stories, we always get inspired by real characters in life. Now it’s about also the audience understanding what is right and what is wrong. We can’t be sitting and preaching.”
“That does not happen in real life, and it should not happen. People have loved it, and how he’s devised everything in that scene. It is cinematic, and it’s for the film; it’s for the purpose of that character. So, I don’t think people should take back wrong things from it,” Saloni said about the scene in which a young Ranbir enters a college with a gun.
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