Honest review of Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s movie: Animal

What we expect from a Sandeep Reddy Vanga film, we got much much more masala than we bargained for. I remember he once said in an interview that we as audiences haven’t even seen what is violence yet. So I think he did not disappoint in that department, for sure.
So what is an animal? An animal is obviously not human, it does not share those human instincts that we carry with us such as: maturity, sensibility, loyalty, morality, justice, and surprisingly so, calmness. Ranbir’s character is EVERYTHING that an animal is like.
Like a lion is known to choose his mates, and he often consciously chooses the most fertile seeming lioness that he thinks will be able to boar his children and healthy ones at that. He did exactly that. Hence, his legacy is to protect, defend, and kill anyone who threatens his family and his tribe. What did the character do? Ding ding ding! Exactly that! This is what Ranbir enacted, and finely so. He was a Lion on screen, a roaring, untamable, violent, steadfast lion that will do ANYTHING to defeat his enemies and protect his kin. As far as many things go, people are looking at this film like it is some appalling, outrageous gist of immorality that no one has ever seen before. Same film made in Hollywood would be praised for its many attributes. But such people must’ve not seen the likes of Godfather I and II if you cannot handle these types of movies and films like Scarface, etc etc to mention the least.
From someone who enjoys Bollywood cinema for its uniqueness, for it’s over the top, far from reality types of grandiose films, I was AMAZED by Sandeep’s swift storytelling. I was hooked, I was spell bound, I was shocked, and I was MESMERIZED. It took me back to the 70s era movies kind of storytelling that the directors of that time were making but 100 times more intense. Deewaar, Don, Sholay, Apradh, Qurbani, Jaanbaaz, and many other films of that time had the “shock” factor that Animal had. Highly stylized, with impeccable cinematography. Those films of that time were path breaking, were known to shock the audiences and also upset them in many ways too. These all became classics. But we aren’t to watch such films for any kind of inspiration. For sheer talent that Ranbir Kapoor has shown, for the direction, for the action, the music, the background score, the flawless editing skills, and for the cinematic experience, this film is not one to be missed. I feel very sorry for those who have not seen it, who have no desire to watch it, and who pre-judged such a film that strikes a chord with almost every Bollywood movie deewana. Such people are too sensitive and should also not watch horror films and action movies if they are so easily repulsed by blood, disloyalty/cheating, narcissism, misogyny, violence, and many other things that we so agree that is known to be a part of an ANIMAL’S nature. They must be prudish anyways and don’t deserve to even see such a film, please leave it to us fanatics.