Pakistanis will be able to watch 'Animal' on Netflix this month

With a ban on Indian films in the country, Pakistanis will now be able to watch Ranbir Kapoor's controversial film, Animal, on Netflix this month, reported Hindustan Times. The Sandeep Reddy Vanga directorial is all set to release on the streaming giant on January 26. 

A month after its release, Animal has moved past Shah Rukh Khan's first offering of 2023, Pathaan, and has amassed over INR5.4 billion in India. As per Bollywood Hungama, the film has crossed the INR9 billion mark at the global box office. The film, starring Ranbir, Anil Kapoor, Rashmika Mandanna and Bobby Deol in pivotal roles has made headlines for its rather problematic script. 

Famed filmmaker, Karan Johar, however, has termed it as the best offering of the year. "People have come up to me after I spoke about how much I loved Animal, and said, 'You have made Rocky Aur Rani,' That's the vaccination for a film like Animal. It's the opposite extreme. I said that I could not disagree with you more, because Animal to me is the best film of the year," Karan was quoted by Hindustan Times. 

"It took me a while to reach this statement and a lot of courage because when you are around people, you fear judgment. Like during the time of Kabir Singh, which I also loved... I was like I am going to say this and I am going to get dirty looks from certain people but I don't care anymore," he added. 

The director then detailed why he loved Animal so much. “I loved Animal for its front-footed, absolutely conviction-based narrative storytelling, breaking grammar, breaking myths, breaking everything that you think conforms to mainstream cinema. Suddenly you have an interval block where the hero is getting bashed up and everyone's singing a song... I am like, 'Where have you seen a sequence like this?' It's genius."

He furthered, "At the end, where the two men are going for each other and they play that song... I had tears in my eyes, but there was only blood. So I was like something is wrong with me or something is wrong with him, but something put together is very right about this film. This is not an average-thinking mind. This is the mind of someone so distinct, so individualistic that I was blown away. I saw the film twice, first to see it as an audience member and second to study it. I think the success, and acceptance of Animal is game-changing. The conviction is something that I want to have.”

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