A nonetheless from Animal trailer. (courtesy: T-Series)

Ranbir Kapoor’s Animal co-star Siddhant Karnick has come out in assist of the actor’s character within the movie, which is being slammed throughout social media for being poisonous. Talking about it to Times Of India, Siddhant Karnick, who performs Ranbir’s brother-in-law within the movie, known as his character “entertaining.” He mentioned, “Ranbir plays a character who completely believes in being alpha and the alpha male tops the food chain and that’s the psyche of the character. That’s about it. If people want to draw parallels to themselves and society at large, then they are absolutely free to do what they want to. As storytellers, it’s our job to tell a story and it’s our job as good storytellers to tell a story intensely. We have no responsibility towards how society would respond to it.”

He continued, “His character is supposed to be an alpha man, now whether that be toxic or not is how you want to gauge it. I just see him as a very entertaining character. Does it reflect society? I don’t know. Society as a whole has its own ways and triggers. If this film triggers them to act a certain way, that’s upon their own conditioning, it’s not that this film is a social message or an awareness campaign on how human beings should be or how an individual or a man should be in a relationship. I don’t know why we are looking at this film as anything other than a film with these characters. What Ranbir played to and what I play as Varun, are just characters, period.”

Earlier, Bobby Deol, who plays the role of an antagonist Abrar in Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal, praised his co-star Ranbir Kapoor. Speaking to News 18, Bobby Deol said, “Ranbir’s an incredible man. I really like him. I’ve labored with a variety of actors. But he gave me a variety of respect. He’s a famous person and regardless of that, he dragged me with him in all places he went to advertise the movie. No one does that. Everybody simply desires to steal the limelight. But he isn’t like that. He has no insecurities.”

In his review, NDTV’s Saibal Chatterjee wrote this about Ranbir Kapoor, “Ranbir Kapoor delivers a robust efficiency that’s supported with customary elan by Anil Kapoor. But as a result of the movie is propelled in the principle by problematic means and instincts, the efforts of the 2 stars can solely go abegging. You wish to look away when the 2 are peddling their wares.”

Directed by Arjun Reddy director Sandeep Reddy Vanga, Animal stars Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol and Triptii Dimri in pivotal roles. In phrases of labor, Siddhant Karnick was additionally seen in Zoya Akhtar’s Made In Heaven season 2.