Animal- Bobby Deol's third wife in the film Mansi Taxak on her marital rape scene: 'It was shocking but…'

Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal is on its way to be an all time blockbuster. While fans have thronged to the cinemas and made it the success it has become, certain sections have expressed their displeasure over some scenes and motivations of the characters. One of the scenes that has been talked about is Bobby Deol’s wedding scene, where he’s about to get married for the third time. He’s Abrar, a Muslim character who has lost his voice after his grandfather set himself ablaze right in front of him. The actress who plays his third wife Mansi Taxak, gets raped by him after he gets the news of his brother’s death. Taking about the same in an interview with Zoom, she defended the scene and said, “ It is shocking, of course. Nobody expects their wedding to end that way. When the wedding sequence starts, if you see the lights, the way the art was done, it was beautiful. You hear the music, that has gone so viral on Instagram.” She added, “It was heading towards a beautiful end, and suddenly, you see something like this happening. It was to tell the audience that and animal is coming; if you thought Ranbir (Ranbir Kapoor) was this way, you can expect the villain to be (worse). It was an apt way to establish Bobby sir’s character and to show the audience what real animal we’re talking about… I would not wish that to happen at my wedding ever!” ‘To show assault not the intent’ She elaborated that showing sexual assault was not the intention of the film. “It was not the intent to show that any sort of assault was happening. It was just that Bobby sir ( Bobby Deol ) did not expect his brother’s death news to come on the wedding, which puts the character into a zone where he couldn’t think straight. And that’s what we’re talking about, right? Animal instincts are unpredictable instincts.”