{"id":287248,"date":"2025-04-22T02:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T02:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/swanand-kirkire-says-he-was-enraged-after-a-girl-said-bobby-deol-is-so-hot-after-watching-animal-sandeep-reddy-vanga-dismissed-other-forms-of-masculinity\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T02:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T02:02:02","slug":"swanand-kirkire-says-he-was-enraged-after-a-girl-said-bobby-deol-is-so-hot-after-watching-animal-sandeep-reddy-vanga-dismissed-other-forms-of-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/swanand-kirkire-says-he-was-enraged-after-a-girl-said-bobby-deol-is-so-hot-after-watching-animal-sandeep-reddy-vanga-dismissed-other-forms-of-masculinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Swanand Kirkire says he was \u2018enraged\u2019 after a girl said \u2018Bobby Deol is so hot\u2019 after watching Animal: \u2018Sandeep Reddy Vanga dismissed other forms of masculinity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Swanand Kirkire was one of the first celebrities to voice his disappointment with Sandeep Reddy Vanga\u2019s 2023 blockbuster family crime drama Animal. The actor-singer-lyricist called out the regressive politics<\/a> of the film on X, much to Sandeep\u2019s chagrin, whose team then issued an aggressive response on the platform.<\/p>\n

Now, Swanand has clarified that like his senior Javed Akhtar, his issue with the film<\/a> was its acceptance by the audience, not so much the film itself. \u201cIf you read my tweet closely, it humbly says the only problem I had with Animal was that someone is saying something with so much audacity, and our public, especially girls, are embracing it dearly,\u201d said Swanand.<\/p>\n

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In the interview with The Lallantop, Swanand pointed out how Animal shows that we\u2019ve regressed from classics like Mehboob Khan\u2019s Aurat (1940) and Guru Dutt\u2019s Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1963) to recent seminal films like Vikas Bahl\u2019s Queen (2014) and Shoojit Sircar\u2019s Piku (2015). \u201cThese films made men from Indore, like me, gradually realise what equality means. Hindi cinema was teaching you how to see women in a new light in different ways. Even with how independent the women of Anurag Kashyap\u2019s Dev.D (2009) were! Then there comes a guy who makes a film like Animal, and we accept it. My problem is with the acceptance, not with the film being made,\u201d said Swanand.<\/p>\n

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He recalled the day he watched Animal, he met a girl who said that she\u2019s watched the film twice because \u201cBobby Deol is so hot.\u201d That enraged Swanand as Animal was a film in which Vanga dismissed other forms of masculinity from its inception to uphold the most toxic version of masculinity.<\/p>\n

As a poet and lyricist himself, Swanand also found it contentious that through his protagonist, Ranbir Kapoor\u2019s character Rannvijay Singh, he also dismissed poets. In a much talked about scene, Rannvijay argues that males were historically only alpha. The insecure males, who couldn\u2019t be alpha, became poets, thus giving rise to a new form of masculinity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have an issue with that. But he says that those can\u2019t become alpha males, becomes poets instead. But he\u2019s playing Arjan Vailly in the background for his alpha male. That\u2019s a poem, right? So you do need a poem to make him an alpha male. You may have dismissed poetry in a dialogue, but you can\u2019t dismiss songs. He (Vanga) will get upset with me again after this, but that\u2019s okay,\u201d added Swanand.<\/p>\n

Also Read \u2014 Sandeep Reddy Vanga recalls an IAS officer\u2019s reaction to Animal: \u2018He sounded like I committed some crime\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

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Inspired by Punjabi folklore, Arjan Vailly was originally composed by legendary Punjabi singer Kuldeep Manak in the 1950s. It\u2019s been rehashed by Bhupinder Babbal and Manan Bhardwaj in Animal. It plays in the pre-interval action sequence in which Ranbir\u2019s character is slashing dozens of masked men.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n