Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s brother reveals Ranbir Kapoor was hit multiple times for this scene by Rashmika Mandanna in Animal

Ranbir Kapoor plays Ranvijay Singh in the film and the antagonist, Bobby Deol, plays a character called Abrar. “When Sandeep told me the villain will have three wives and eight kids, I knew it’s something people would talk about. I was right,” says Pranay in the interview. However, he claims that there was no ill intent behind making the villain belong to a particular community.

“Some complained that we didn’t show the community in a good light. In the last three decades, we have seen numerous villains wearing a bottu (bindi/tilak). Nobody complained. Just because it’s a minority now, people are nitpicking,” he adds.

The interviewer asks if Sandeep is calculative when he shows violence or gives his female actors less screen space. Pranay disagrees with her and says, “I think Rashmika’s character Geetanjali is as important as RK (Ranbir Kapoor) and Bobby’s. RK hardly has four lines in a four-page-long Karva Chauth scene. RK also told Rashmika that this is her scene.