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Ranbir Kapoor starrer Animal, which released last year, turned out to be one of the biggest blockbusters in the history of Bollywood. The Sandeep Reddy Vanga directorial also garnered severe criticism for showcasing toxic masculinity.
However, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap showered love on _Animal_ and shared pics of him with Sandeep Reddy Vanga calling him the ‘most misunderstood, judged and reviled filmmaker at the moment’.
Anurag’s daughter Aaliyah, who didn’t like the movie asked her father ‘What in the world was the Sandeep Reddy Vanga post?’ in her podcast Young, Dumb & Anxious.
Reacting to Aaliyah’s question, Anurag said, “I met him (Sandeep Reddy Vanga) and I liked him. I like the guy. I’ve had questions of my own and I wanted to talk to him about his film (Animal) and I invited him and I had a long five-hour conversation and I like the guy… I always believe in talking to people. I was cancelled after Dev D (2009) by a lot of people for making a ‘misogynistic’ film… I have often seen people isolating someone, attacking someone and that is not the way to be.”
He added, “This man (Sandeep), what you see is what he is. People may like Animal, they may not like Animal, but Animal is a major tectonic shift in the way films will be made. People will realise its impact in 5-10 years from now. Post Animal, every action movie looks fake. When you see, Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (Starring Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff), all those flips and fighting, it all looks fake because somehow the action in that film (Animal) and the use of music in that film had an impact, the technical details in the film had an impact on the audience. That will forever impact cinema.”
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