Ranbir Kapoor's Animal is breaking records and how! The Sandeep Reddy Vanga directorial got a humongous opening at the box office. Despite being one of the most polarised films of the year, the crime drama has kept a majority of the audience engaged for over 3 hours. Amid its box office glory, Ram Gopal Varma reviewed Animal and shared it on X, formerly known as Twitter. 

The veteran filmmaker heaped praise on Animal. Ram wrote in his review, "I loved what Film maker Adrian Lyne, who made such classics as Nine and Half Weeks, Fatal Attraction, Lolita etc, once said in an interview that a film should not be merely liked or disliked by the audience members, but it should make them violently disagree and argue about what the film stands for, which is what Sandeep Vanga achieved BIG TIME in ANIMAL."

Calling Animal a social statement, the filmmaker added, "There will be massive fights over the content and the character of Ranbir in ANIMAL long after its box office run is over and I truly believe it can also trigger a cultural overhaul due to the way Sandeep has ripped off the clothes of moral hypocrisy with his bare naked honesty. That is because ANIMAL is not merely a film .. it is a SOCIAL STATEMENT."

My REVIEW of ANIMAL
film https://t.co/zvamzjCFuN

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) December 3, 2023

Ram revealed his favourite sequence from the film. "One of my favourite moments is when against everyone’s expectations, including me in the audience was that he will come back with a baseball bat or something, but when he comes back with a machine gun that almost made us all fall off our chairs and that moment is a pure cinematic gem," he said. The filmmaker continued, "Another genius moment is when Vijay celebrates walking naked in front of his family and staff to make a statement on his perfectly regained health."

Ram shared that he did not like the scene where Ranbir's Vijay asked Tripti Dimri to lick his shoes. He mentioned, "Except for that one single scene where he asks that girl to lick his shoe, I felt his performance was superior to even of Leonardo DiCaprio in Wolf Of Wall Street. More than him being physically naked in a particular scene, he was emotionally naked throughout the film in his performance which takes much more strength of mind than just being physically naked."

He requested Sandeep, "Please send a photo of your feet on my WhatsApp so that I can touch them for the following reasons." Ram ended the review by saying, "Like I already said, I didn't like the shot of Ranbir asking the girl to lick his shoe but for just that one JUMP CUT from Anil’s last dialogue to the end titles camera zooming out shot showing Ranbir crying like a baby in Shakti Kapoor’s lap, I want to lick both your shoes."

Animal also stars Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Rashmika Mandanna and Tripti Dimri.