Ranbir Kapoor starrer Animal's co-star opens up on the controversy around the film: 'It's our job to tell a story…'

Animal actor Ranbir Kapoor's character Ranvijay Singh has drawn a lot of flak, but co-star Siddhant Karnick believes the character is everything but "toxic." The Sandeep Reddy Vanga movie has drawn criticism for its misogynistic and violent justifications. In an interview with Times of India, Siddhant described Ranbir's persona as "entertaining."

Siddhant Karnick opens up on the controversy

Siddhant Karnick played the role of Ranbir Kapoor’s brother-in-law in the film. He said while talking to the news agency, “Ranbir plays a character who completely believes in being alpha and the alpha male tops the food chain and that's the psyche of the character. That's about it. If people want to draw parallels to themselves and society at large, then they are absolutely free to do what they want to. As storytellers, it's our job to tell a story and it's our job as good storytellers to tell a story intensely. We have no responsibility towards how society would respond to it.”

He further said, “His character is supposed to be an alpha man, now whether that be toxic or not is how you want to gauge it. I just see him as a very entertaining character. Does it reflect society? I don't know. Society as a whole has its own ways and triggers. If this film triggers them to act a certain way, that's upon their own conditioning, it's not that this film is a social message or an awareness campaign on how human beings should be or how an individual or a man should be in a relationship. I don't know why we are looking at this film as anything other than a film with these characters. What Ranbir played to and what I play as Varun, are just characters, period.”

About the film

Animal centres on the violent and destructive father-son relationship against the backdrop of the underworld. Anil Kapoor plays Ranbir's father, and Rashmika Mandanna plays his wife. Tripti Dimrii is also very important.

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