Action drama film Animal has crossed the Rs 500 crore mark at the worldwide gross box office, the makers said on Thursday.
Fronted by Ranbir Kapoor and directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, the film was released on December 1 in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam.
Production house T-Series shared the collection update of Animal on X, stating that the film has earned Rs 527.6 crore within six days of its release.
The film collected Rs 116 crore on its opening day. Animal’s Monday collection - 40.06 crore - was 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.”