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Filmmaker Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal is a tough watch for many and there are certain scenes which even actor Siddhant Karnick felt was unsettling. In the action thriller, Siddhant plays Varun, Ranbir Kapoor’s brother-in-law.
In an interview with Bollywood Hungama, Siddhant was asked about some of the scenes in Animal that a section of the audiences has called out for being problematic. “It is my duty as an artiste to make you feel, it is my duty as a good artiste to make you feel intensely. How you react after that is not my responsibility,” the actor said.
When asked if an actor has some social responsibility, Siddhant said if that is the goal, he would rather do social message campaigns. “Ads where I talk about sanitary pads and say smoking is injurious to health. But when I am telling a story, please allow me the creative liberty to tell that character’s story as authentically as it has been written. Main koi lecture ya moralistic cheezein nahi batana chahta. I want to play a character the way it is written.”
Though Animal is re-writing Bollywood box office history, the film is also coming under fire for its misogyny and certain scenes that are triggering the audience. One such sequence is when Ranbir’s character asks Triptii’s character to lick his shoe to prove that she indeed loves him, after she is revealed to be a mole.
Siddhant said he is still “processing” the scene as he was taken aback by what he saw. “It was unsettling, but I also felt, ‘Wow what a choice for a character and a very courageous choice to make for the director.’ At the end of the day, Sandeep sir is getting the flak. That’s when he turned an anti-hero to me from a hero.
“That’s what portrayed the man’s psycho-ness. That he is good but he also has these deep dark traits. That was a very fine line for Vijay to turn villain, it is not easy to tread on. I felt damn unsettled with that scene. But now when I think about, it was also so good, it makes you react,” he added.
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