What all is wrong with Bollywood and this movie called ‘Animal’

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My 2 cents on this so called blockbuster ‘Animal’ and Bollywood lately.

Before I go into my view about the whole movie, it is important to briefly touch base with the entire moot debate whether or not cinema leaves an impression on the society.

A lot many actors have denied the statement that cinema actually has a profound impact on the society. To quote verbatim of a popular actor “Cinema at best affects your hairstyle / clothing and not your mind”

I however belong to the other side, those who believe that Cinema and society go hand in hand. What happens in the society is often mirrored in Cinema in name of inspiration and whatever transpires in cinema or for that matter media (including TV and advertisments) often in whatever capacity shapes or tries to shape the society.

A remember a lot of campaigns in the early 2000s that talked about load sharing (Ariel) or how is it okay to ‘run like a girl’ (Always). All of these campaigns where need of that time where in women had started to come as equals of men and it needed acceptance. These ad campaigns did a great job in actually normalizing or validating such sentiments in society

But it seems of-lately we have returned to the 80s and 90s. Instead of going progressive we are going regressive Gone are the men who displayedattractive virtues of sensitivity,load sharing, and a sense of humour .What’s left is the toxic shell of a
man who can’t in his primitivecaveman brain think beyond the needof violence and fighting for thesurvival of his family and bring backfood. How archaic-ly modern ( slow claps ) ? Or is media just doing what it does? that is mirroring the society? In this case a fringe segment of society who thinks feminism is too gimmicky and it’s high time they reclaim their stature as higher beings ?

Coming back to the movie, I am not even getting into the fact that how absolutely devoid of logic and practicality the whole movie is because that is another level of slippery slop altogether. Even after giving movies a benefit of doubt that they are meant to create a releam outside of reality, this movie can’t be saved for it is wrong on so many levels.

There is a scene in the movie where Ranbir introduces Rashmika as her ‘Half’ to her father and not just ‘wife’, let’s just end it there that’s the only thing I liked in this movie.