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Mumbai:

Jan 7 Days after Javed Akhtar took a swipe at “Animal”, the workforce of the Ranbir Kapoor-starrer on Sunday clapped again on the veteran lyricist-writer asking to “let love be free from the politics of gender”.

Akhtar, who together with former writing companion Salim Khan, is understood for penning movies corresponding to “Zanjeer”, “Deewar”, and “Mr India”, not too long ago stated the business success of movies with problematic scenes was a “dangerous” pattern.

While he did not point out the identify of “Animal”, the screenwriter cited the instance of the movie’s controversial bootlicking scene that includes Ranbir and Triptii Dimri, who play Ranvijay and Zoya.

In response, the “Animal” workforce on X tagged Akhtar and wrote: “Writer of your calibre cannot understand the betrayal of a lover (Between Zoya & Ranvijay) then all your art form is big FALSE… Let love be free from the politics of gender… (sic).” Directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, “Animal” emerged as probably the most divisive movie of 2023 which obtained criticism for its graphic content material, excessive violence, and therapy of feminine characters. It’s additionally noteworthy that the film is without doubt one of the prime incomes Hindi movies of the yr with Rs 900 crore at field workplace globally.

In the submit shared by the movie’s official X web page, the “Animal” workforce additional stated had a girl requested a person to lick her shoe, the second would have been celebrated within the identify of “feminism”.

“If a woman (betrayed and fooled by a man in the name of love) would have said ‘lick my shoe’ then you guys would have celebrated it by calling it feminism… Let’s just call them lovers. LOVER cheated and lied. LOVER said lick my shoe. Period @Javedakhtarjadu,” the submit learn.

At the Ajanta Ellora International Film Festival in Aurangabad final week, Akhtar had expressed his considerations in regards to the present state of cinema.

“I believe it’s a testing time for the young filmmakers today as to what kind of characters they want to create that the society will applaud. For instance, if there’s a film in which a man asks a woman to lick his shoe or if a man says it’s okay to slap a woman, and if the film is a super-duper hit, then that’s very dangerous,” Akhtar stated.

The famous author had additionally stated that the onus to determine which movies to simply accept and reject lies with the viewers. PTI RDS RDS RDS