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A film that’s neither entertaining nor has anything to say. The cinematic equivalent of a teenager having a hormonal temper tantrum.
Ranbir Kapoor is Ranvijay, who, as you probably surmised from the trailer has everything money can buy, except his father’s love and attention. Never mind his poor mum enabling his bad behavior, all Vijay wants is to be able to spend his father Balbir’s birthdays with him, again mother, very much alive and standing around looking sad, is inconsequential. Denied this love, Vijay slowly turns into an “animal”, with uncontrollable instinct, acting upon every single intrusive thought in his man-brain. Also because Balbir is the richest or one of the richest men in India, nothing Vijay does, including straight-up mass murder, has any legal consequences. Law enforcement doesn’t exist in Balbir and Vijay’s world.
The film takes place in flashbacks, and I tried to figure out why. The first scene is a prosthetically aged Ranbir Kapoor in the year 2056, telling a group of men an inane story about a monkey in a jungle. Just like this scene, much of Animal’s screenplay presents sequence upon gory sequence, purely for the shock value they provide. Violence for violence’s sake, sexism for sexism’s sake, declarations of masculinity only because one can. “Sadly it’s a man’s world”, Vijay says to his wife in a scene, without a hint of awareness. You don’t have to tell us twice.