Bobby Deol says he couldn’t recognise himself in Animal teaser: ‘I am a big fan of Ranbir Kapoor’

“I was really lucky that I got to be a part of Animal, I have loved Sandeep’s work. He is the only director who has made the same film twice and succeeded both the times. I want to do different characters and as I have said before, I want to break my image, get challenged and be very uncomfortable as an actor.

“I am a big fan of Ranbir Kapoor. If there are two actors I am a big fan of, they are Ranbir and Alia and they are married to each other! So I was really excited to learn that Ranbir would be playing the main lead, and I knew it would be amazing working with him as I have always loved his work. It is an emotional, violent drama with love, romance and hate. Sandeep brings out different elements in characterisations which are so different from other filmmakers,” he said.

Opening up about his much talked about sequence in the teaser, Bobbys said even he was shocked to see how menacing he looked in that shot. The actor recalled when they had filmed that particular scene he hadn’t even seen the monitor due to time crunch.

“When I did that shot, I didn’t even see the monitor. We were in a hurry to finish that moment. I saw the shot for the first time when I saw the teaser and I was like, ‘What?! This is me?!’ I am so glad about the response I have got for this one shot. It just shows that the audience wants to see me in something different. They want to know what I am doing in that shot– I can’t tell you that, but I am definitely eating something.”

The year has been good for the Deol family. While veteran actor Dharmendra earned acclaim for his performance in Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani, Sunny Deol broke box office records with Gadar 2. Sunny Deol’s son, Karan got married while his other son, Rajveer, made his screen debut with Dono.

“God has been kind, this year has been amazing for us. It started with my nephew Karan’s wedding. Everyone loves my father, then my brother had Gadar 2 and then my nephew (Rajveer) had a release (Dono). I don’t know if it has happened that three generations have come together on screen in one year. My dad was amazing in Rocky Aur Rani, no one could have done that better. The way he brought that character to life and performed it was magical,” he added.