Animal
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The hardened son of a powerful industrialist returns home after years abroad and vows to take bloody revenge on those threatening his father's life.
What critics thought
DivisiveSandeep Reddy Vanga's Animal divided Indian critics sharply: admirers called it an unapologetic, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle elevated by Ranbir Kapoor's committed, career-best performance, while detractors condemned it as a pointless, gleefully misogynistic exercise in excess with paper-thin writing beneath the carnage. Almost no one disputed Kapoor's screen presence — the argument was whether any film this toxic deserves to be entertaining.
“Animal takes everything that was problematic and increases it several notches. It is downright the most violent Hindi film I have seen, and also one of the most inherently toxic. The amazing part is that it is still very well made and entertaining, enhanced further by yet another great performance from Kapoor.”
Abhimanyu Mathur·DNA India
“Animal for all its blood and gore, is the story of a son's aching desire for his father's approval. Why even its ballads are less romantic, more revenge. And its female characters for all their luminosity, are just props.”
Puja Awasthi·The Week
“Ranbir is on fire, inhabiting to a frightening degree Vijay's delusional personal war. Reptile-eyed even at his smoldering best, Kapoor's career-best performance makes Animal tough to stomach, but equally difficult to ignore.”
Nandini Ramnath·Scroll.in
“wasted in this pointless, vile tale.”
Shubhra Gupta·The Indian Express
“Sandeep Reddy Vanga's film has the kind of writing you'll find in BDSM erotica like Fifty Shades of Grey, but presented with the same earnestness of 'pure love' that we saw in Arjun Reddy.”
Sowmya Rajendran·The News Minute
Parents guide
- Violence
- severe
- Sex
- moderate
- Profanity
- severe
- Substances
- severe
- Intensity
- severe
Genres
Action, Crime, Drama
Cast & Crew
Sandeep Reddy VangaDirector
Ranbir KapoorRanvijay Balbir Singh / Aziz Haque
Rashmika MandannaGeetanjali Singh
Anil KapoorBalbir Singh
Bobby DeolAbrar Haque
Triptii DimriZoya Riaz
Prem ChopraBade Daarji
Suresh OberoiDadaji
Shakti KapoorMishra
Upendra LimayeFreddy
Babloo PrithiveerajAsrar Haque
Saurabh SachdevaAbid Haque
Pritam ChakrabortyComposer
Vishal MishraComposer
Manan BhardwajComposer
JaaniComposerAnimal
The hardened son of a powerful industrialist returns home after years abroad and vows to take bloody revenge on those threatening his father's life.
What critics thought
DivisiveSandeep Reddy Vanga's Animal divided Indian critics sharply: admirers called it an unapologetic, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle elevated by Ranbir Kapoor's committed, career-best performance, while detractors condemned it as a pointless, gleefully misogynistic exercise in excess with paper-thin writing beneath the carnage. Almost no one disputed Kapoor's screen presence — the argument was whether any film this toxic deserves to be entertaining.
“Animal takes everything that was problematic and increases it several notches. It is downright the most violent Hindi film I have seen, and also one of the most inherently toxic. The amazing part is that it is still very well made and entertaining, enhanced further by yet another great performance from Kapoor.”
Abhimanyu Mathur·DNA India
“Animal for all its blood and gore, is the story of a son's aching desire for his father's approval. Why even its ballads are less romantic, more revenge. And its female characters for all their luminosity, are just props.”
Puja Awasthi·The Week
“Ranbir is on fire, inhabiting to a frightening degree Vijay's delusional personal war. Reptile-eyed even at his smoldering best, Kapoor's career-best performance makes Animal tough to stomach, but equally difficult to ignore.”
Nandini Ramnath·Scroll.in
“wasted in this pointless, vile tale.”
Shubhra Gupta·The Indian Express
“Sandeep Reddy Vanga's film has the kind of writing you'll find in BDSM erotica like Fifty Shades of Grey, but presented with the same earnestness of 'pure love' that we saw in Arjun Reddy.”
Sowmya Rajendran·The News Minute
Parents guide
- Violence
- severe
- Sex
- moderate
- Profanity
- severe
- Substances
- severe
- Intensity
- severe
Genres
Action, Crime, Drama
Cast & Crew
Sandeep Reddy VangaDirectorRanbir KapoorRanvijay Balbir Singh / Aziz HaqueRashmika MandannaGeetanjali SinghAnil KapoorBalbir SinghBobby DeolAbrar HaqueTriptii DimriZoya RiazPrem ChopraBade DaarjiSuresh OberoiDadajiShakti KapoorMishraUpendra LimayeFreddyBabloo PrithiveerajAsrar HaqueSaurabh SachdevaAbid HaquePritam ChakrabortyComposerVishal MishraComposerManan BhardwajComposerJaaniComposerStream