Animal box office collection day 2: Ranbir Kapoor’s film crosses Rs 100 crore mark; joins Pathaan, Jawan as fastest to achieve feat

According to trade analyst Ramesh Bala, Animal has raked in a massive Rs 230 crore worldwide. He took to Twitter and wrote, “In 2 days, #Animal has grossed a huge ₹ 230 Crs+ at the WW Box office.”

Animal released in theatres clashing with Vicky Kaushal’s Sam Bahadur. While Animal is enjoying a good run at the box office, the Meghna Gulzar directorial is going slow and steady. The film minted Rs 6.25 crore on Friday and Rs 9.25 crore on Saturday.

Animal is directed by Sandeep Vanga Reddy, who is known for helming films like Arjun Reddy and its Hindi adaptation Kabir Singh. Both of his past films were bashed for glorifying toxic masculinity and the same is being said for Animal. However, despite the criticism, Sandeep’s film has found its audience and is minting moolah at the box office.

Indian Express’s Shubra Gupta gave the film one star and wrote, “Everything in the overblown plot is bent towards underlining this toxic relationship between father and son. We are supposed to be in sympathy with this loveless man-child, so everything he is responsible for — tossing off a crass remark to a girl (Rashmika Mandanna) he’s met again after several years, which rapidly leads to a romance in which she is completely in thrall to this guy who thinks violence is the answer to all his problems, the crude below-the-belt situations especially created for bursts of low-rent humour, the bloody action sequences in which limbs are blown off faster than you can count — is fine, because the poor boy got no lovin’ when he was a child.”

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