Last Updated: December 10, 2023, 09:55 IST
Siddhant Karnick and Ranbir Kapoor recently starred in Animal
Ranbir Kapoor’s Animal co-star Siddhant Karnick defends his toxic character. The latter played the role of his brother-in-law in the film.
Ranbir Kapoor’s recently released film Animal, has sparked various debates and discussions. The actor essays the role of an extremely toxic male character, who navigates his tumultuous relationship with his father. While many applauded the Sandeep Reddy Vanga directorial, several viewers found the film disturbing and called it out. Now, Ranbir’s co-star Siddhant Karnick played who played the role of his brother-in-law defended his character.
In an interview with ETimes, Siddhant shared that he didn’t find Ranbir’s character ‘toxic’ but rather he was ‘very entertaining’ in a way. He shared, ”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 further added, “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.”
On a closing note he strongly stated, “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.”
Apart from Ranbir Kapoor and Siddhant Karnick, Animal also stars Anil Kapoor, Rashmika Mandanna and Bobby Deol in pivotal roles. Released on December 1, the movie has minted over 398 crores at the national box office.
