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Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal got a polarising response from the audience as many believed that film was too violent and glorified misogynistic behaviour. After the release of the movie, Sandeep defended Animal in many interviews but there was a big section of the audience that called out scenes from the film. Veteran writer Javed Akhtar called the movie “dangerous” and spoke about the same at the 9th Ajanta-Ellora International Film Festival in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.

“If there’s a film in which a man asks a woman to lick his shoe or if a man says it’s okay to slap a woman… and the film is a super hit, that’s dangerous,” he said while referring to the scene where Ranbir’s character asks Tripti Dimri’s character to ‘lick his shoe’.

Later, in a chat with Siddharth Kannan, Sandeep Reddy Vanga responded to Akhtar’s criticism and said, “It is very clear that he did not watch the film. It’s very clear in that comment that he did not see the entire film. Now if someone is talking without watching the film, what can I say about them? Obviously you feel bad because it is very clear that he has not seen the film and not only about him, anybody who is throwing stones on an art piece, why don’t they check their surroundings first?”

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