The Animal debate continues…

Brut India

“There’s so much pressure that cinema has buckled under it.” Dialogue writer of “Animal” debates the film’s criticism at FICCI Frames 2024, with Brut as the cultural partner.

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00:00An intelligently made problematic film is what is more problematic, that's it.

00:10Shahid, we wanted to make this film into a film.

00:13You said chilling, I think it's a good idea.

00:15Let's just chill.

00:17Papa, can you hear me? I'm not deaf.

00:31Veer Kapoor, the hero, can behave like this.

00:35Can say that you change four pads in a month, you act.

00:41If the hero can say stuff like that, the man who's watching can very well think it.

00:48Even if he won't go ahead and say it, if he won't repeat it.

00:52He can say in his jobs that he has acted so much, he should get a leave today.

00:57Because he's being a dad.

00:58Along with cinema, making men understand the importance of sanitary napkins.

01:03Making them understand that smoking is bad.

01:06Cinema has become such a burden.

01:09Let's have some fun.

01:12It's also Islamophobia, which is so rampant anyway today, in my opinion.

01:20There is a certain legitimization that this film does towards that as well.

01:25Because we logically thought that Abrahak was in the film.

01:29Because there was an old feud in the relationship, so his grandfather left.

01:33He changed his religion there.

01:35For us, this was logically a one-two-one-two thing.

01:37Now we're realizing, okay, there is a view of that.

01:41But the hero is just as big a demon as the villain.

01:47And he's a Hindu, so no one said that you acted like a Hindu.

01:51It's one thing to say that this is a story, the character did this.

01:55But we have to stop and think that you made this character.

01:59You decided this story for that character.

02:02So what is it about you that's making that character do that?

02:07You're saying that his brother went abroad and changed his religion.

02:13You have decided that that character is going to change their religion and become a Muslim.

02:18And a very stereotypical Muslim who's going to have three wives.

02:22Who's going to be aggressive and beat up the wives.

02:28Pounce on his wife in front of all the hungry people.

02:32Yes, there is a lot of problem with all of this.

02:35How a community is being portrayed in our cinema of late.

02:41And the films that are coming out.

02:43These are questions to be had at a broader level.

02:46And a discussion to be had at a broader level.

02:48In the end, I think it's the woman who's losing everything.

02:52She had left her family.

02:54She said, I don't want a husband, I want my parents.

02:57She has nothing.

02:59He still has a family. He has his cousins.

03:01He has his business which is flourishing.

03:02So, I don't think it's a happy ending.

03:05I don't think it's a sad ending.

03:07It's interesting that we have to say that women are less.

03:12Because I felt that the hero's wife has a lot of rights in the film.

03:18And ultimately he has to leave her.

03:22So, he loses everything.

03:24This used to be enough.

03:26But it's no longer enough.

03:28I do think this film is extremely well made.

03:30I'm not surprised that it's been lapped up by audiences.

03:33Because it's very intelligently made.

03:36The craft is great.

03:38Performances, of course, music.

03:41The writing, in my opinion, has great shock value which really appeals to audiences.

03:47So, it is definitely really well made.

03:50I cannot take that away from the audiences.

03:53An intelligently made problematic film is what is more problematic.

03:58I take that.

04:03There was a story in this film.

04:05We wanted to show that story in a way.

04:09And there are many types of films in Hollywood.

04:13Tony Montana, Scarface, Godfather.

04:16We praise those films a lot.

04:18So, we wanted to make this film as a film.

04:21Chill. I think it will be great.

04:23Just chill.

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