Bobby Deol’s performance in Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal was met with wide spread critical acclaim. The director recently talked about his creative process, revealing that it was a deliberate decision to make Bobby’s character hearing-impaired and speech-impaired.
During an interview with Komal Nahta, the filmmaker decoded the though behind deciding Bobby’s character in the film. The actor earned a lot of praise for his portrayal in Ranbir Kapoor starrer. He played the role of Abrar Haque, the main antagonist in the film.
“We have seen a lot of films where the hero and villain pick up the phone and abuse each other, or there is some sort of dialoguebaazi throughout the film,” said Sandeep, who subverted this template by completely doing away with this idea.
In the film, Animal, Bobby enters much later into the film, allowing the first half of the movie to focus on the development of Ranbir’s character, and highlight his intense devotion to his father, portrayed by Anil Kapoor.
Talking more about Bobby’s role, Sandeep said, “Since we have seen a lot of such exchanges in our films, I just thought of sketching him as a mute and a deaf person. The very idea of a deaf-and-mute person fighting in the climax was such an exciting idea”.
