Mansi Taxak plays Bobby Deol's on-screen wife in 'Animal'. Her wedding scene has been creating a lot of buzz and it is termed as 'too violent' as Bobby's Abrar is seen physically assaulting her on wedding night.
As a ferocious villain in 'Animal', Bobby Deol has hit the ball out of the park. He has been receiving appreciation for his never-seen-before avatar in the Ranbir Kapoor starrer. Bobby plays a menacing mute antagonist, Abrar Haque in the Sandeep Reddy Vanga's film. He has three wives- one of them played by Mansi Taxak. There is a scene in the film which is quite triggering and many have called it out.
It's the wedding scene between Bobby and Mansi's characters and it also marks the entry of Bobby as a villain in 'Animal'. In the scene, when Abrar is informed that his brother is dead, he first kills the messenger and then assaults Mansi’s character. Then with his gestures, he asks his other wives to join them in the bedroom and assaults them as well. The scene has been termed as 'too violent''.
In an interview with Zoom Entertainment, when Mansi was asked about the scene, she said, “It is shocking, of course. Nobody expects their wedding to end that way. When the wedding sequence starts, if you see the lights, the way the art was done, it was beautiful. You hear the music, that has gone so viral on Instagram. It was heading towards a beautiful end, and suddenly, you see something like this happening. It was to tell the audience that and animal is coming; if you thought Ranbir was this way, you can expect the villain to be (worse). It was an apt way to establish Bobby sir’s character and to show the audience what real animal we’re talking about.”
She added, “I would not wish that to happen at my wedding ever!”
When she was asked about the criticism the film and the scene is receiving, Mansi said, “If you see the scene before that, the wedding scene, if you see the sort of chemistry that we have, the eye contact that we have… It tells you the back-story, that besides their differences, their age, their careers, they do love each other, and that’s why they’re getting married.”
Mansi further defending the film said that ''it was not the intent to show that any sort of assault was happening''.
''It was just that Bobby sir did not expect his brother’s death news to come on the wedding, which puts the character into a zone where he couldn’t think straight. And that’s what we’re talking about, right? Animal instincts are unpredictable instincts. So he goes into that zone, and to vent out his emotions, he comes to his wives. I don’t think it was intended to be any sort of assault. I didn’t feel it on the set, or in the script. That was not the case. It was just a relationship between two people that has panned out the way it did,” she said.