Animal has passed the Monday test with flying colours. The film’s Hindi version opened at Rs 54. 75 crore on Friday with Rs 58.37 and Rs 63.46 crore on subsequent days, collected Rs 40.06 crore on Monday. This takes the Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s directorial to a whopping Rs 216.64 crore in just four days.
The Ranbir Kapoor starrer additionally made Rs 29.59 crore in South Indian languages. As per the makers, the film’s worldwide gross collection currently stands at Rs 425 crore.
Animal’s Monday collection is more than Shah Rukh Khan’s Jawan (Rs 32.92 crore), Pathaan (Rs 26.50 crore) and Sunny Deol’s Gadar 2 (Rs 38.70 crore).
Apart from Ranbir, the film also stars Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Rashmika Mandanna and Triptii Dimri in pivotal roles.
Despite the polarizing opinions on the film, Animal has been raging at the box office. Our review of the film read: “Love happens crudely, and misogynistically in Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s universe. Ranvijay spots Geetanjali (Rashmika Mandanna) while she is getting engaged. He looks at her like Kabir Singh or Arjun Reddy looked at their Preetis. I want her. Love here is more obsession and possession than affection. It is also manipulation. Ranvijay uses an evolutionary explanation to brainwash Gitanjali into marrying him. “In the olden days, there weren’t parents or castes, women chose their partners themselves. Who would you choose if not an alpha?” he asks her. It’s convoluted like feminism being mansplained.”