Animal: Why the Film Needed to Have a 'Muslim Villain'
Animal connects with right wing incels at a visceral level. It brings to life some of their pet fantasies.
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There are many things that are superfluous in Sandeep Reddy Vanga's 'Animal' - the length, the women characters, Bobby Deol (an AI generated character with the prompt 'very evil, scary-looking man' would have sufficed).
Then there is the misogyny. Read more on that in this extensive review by Pratikshya Mishra of the Ranbir Kapoor-starrer film.
In this article, however, we'll look at two other aspects of the film:
First, an aspect that seems superfluous but is actually central to the film's worldview - the Muslim background of the antagonists.
Second, an aspect that seems central but is actually superfluous - the Sikh background of the protagonists. [. . .]
