Sandeep Surprised With Rashmika Not Getting Nominated!

Sandeep Reddy Vanga's 'Animal' is a huge hit at the box office by minting more than 900 crores at the box office. It is getting a terrific response on Netflix too. Despite all the criticism for the excessive violence, misogyny and depiction of women in the movie, the film won five trophies at the recently held Filmfare Awards 2024.

Hero Ranbir Kapoor won the Best Actor award and the film won Filmfare in other categories like Best Background Score, Best Sound Design and others. While Vanga himself did not get the award, he was more surprised to see the movie's heroine Rashmika not getting nominated in the Best Actress category.

In a recent interview with Siddharth Kannan, he said, "It is not an easy performance, what I believed. She was giggling, laughing. She is going mad. She is going crazy. That was not easy. It is an 11-minute scene. She was holding the scene. Genuinely, I don't believe in awards and all. But I went because 19 nominations hai and the entire team was there. So why should there be an absentee director there?"

A lot of people thought that her dialogue delivery during an emotional scene was incomprehensible. But Sandeep told India Today, "She was supposed to speak in a particular way because it's a very emotional scene. I knew there would be a certain reaction to it. When someone is feeling a certain emotion, then they speak with their teeth clenched. I think keeping it in the trailer has only given it multiple views. When you see it as part of the larger scene in the movie, it will make more sense."