Animal Box Office Collection Day 16: Ranbir Kapoor's Film Is Going Strong At Rs 498 Crore

Animal has been directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga

Ranbir Kapoor has ended 2023 on a great note thanks to his film Animal emerging as a blockbuster at the box office. The film, directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, is an action-drama with a complex father-son relationship at its core. Animal leaped into the ₹300-crore and ₹400-crore club with relative ease, and on day 16 of its release, the film has made a whopping ₹13.00 crore across all languages, as per Sacnilk. With this, the total collection of the film stands at ₹498.14 Cr. Animal, headlined by Ranbir Kapoor, has a strong ensemble cast including Rashmika Mandanna, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol and Triptii Dimri.

Animal has been the topic of widespread discussion not just for the great performances and its box office numbers, but also for scenes that have been labelled by many as violent and problematic. For instance, actress Triptii Dimri, whose character has an illicit affair with Ranbir Kapoor's character Ranvijay Singh received backlash for intimate scenes. Speaking about this with ETimes, Triptii Dimri said, “Honestly, the scene is getting a lot of criticism and it did disturb me initially, because I'm someone who has hardly faced criticism. I was also taken aback. But then, I sat myself down and I thought about it. Nobody forced me to become an actor. I wanted to do it because I found it exciting. And as I started doing it, the characters that I played, started healing a part of me. And I started having fun with the process.”