Sandeep Reddy Vanga, the writer-director of Animal starring Ranbir Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Rashmika Mandanna and Bobby Deol, is aware of the frenzied reactions the film’s trailer has generated, but hasn’t had the time to read them. “Ranbir, my brother (co-producer Pranay Vanga) and Bhushan Kumar (producer) called and told me about the feedback and I went back to finalising the post-production. I haven’t had the time,” he says, speaking to The Hindu for an interview during a brief visit to Hyderabad.
If a Sandeep Vanga film is around the corner, there are also bound to be debates. While fanboys talk about how he plays by his own rules of filmmaking, others sound a note of caution about the troubled protagonists in his films. A fan of David Fincher and Martin Scorsese, he says he enjoys deviating from the norm in terms of how he looks at a character, story and his editing process.
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