The Ranbir Kapoor-starrer ‘Animal’, on its 12th day of release, witnessed a slight drop, as per the industry tracker Sacnilk. The film collected around Rs 13 crore on its second Tuesday after minting Rs 13.8 crore on Monday. Not to miss, ‘Animal’, helmed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, delivered the biggest second-weekend haul in Hindi movie history, when it collected Rs 87 crore. Now after 12 days in theatres, the film has made Rs 458 crore in India.
It looks like the Ranbir Kapoor-led would join the Rs 500 crore club domestically this weekend, which is the last window for it to perform, given that Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Dunki’ and Prabhas’ ‘Salaar’ release in theatres on December 21 and 22, respectively. It seems the film is aiming to become the fourth Hindi film of the year to pass the Rs 500 crore mark, and join the likes of ‘Pathaan’, ‘Gadar 2’ and ‘Jawan’. The film’s worldwide gross collections stand at least Rs 750 crore at present, which are around Rs 250-Rs 300 crore less than the records of ‘Pathaan’ and ‘Jawan’, thereby being the third-biggest Indian film of the year so far. The other two films crossed Rs 1000 crore globally.
Nonetheless, ‘Animal’ has proven to be the biggest film of Ranbir Kapoor’s career, moving past 2018’s ‘Sanju’, which made around Rs 590 crore worldwide. Incidentally, ‘Animal’ will be clashing with Sanju director Rajkumar Hirani’s ‘Dunki’ in just a few days.
At the box office, the film actually clashed with Meghna Gulzar’s war biopic ‘Sam Bahadur’, which has been performing decently but is nowhere close to the box office numbers of ‘Animal’.
‘Animal’, apart from the massive box office numbers, has also been in the news for getting criticism for its depiction of toxic masculinity and its glorification of misogynist behaviour. The film also stars Bobby Deol, Rashmika Mandanna, Anil Kapoor and Triptii Dimri in key roles.
