Animal Movie Storyline
Animal is a dark action drama about Ranvijay Singh and his troubled relationship with his father Balbir Singh, a wealthy industrialist and pretty much the most powerful man in the country. As a child, Ranvijay always wanted his father’s attention and validation, but his absence ended up turning him into a violent and rebellious young man who resorted to violence and brute force to solve problems, much to Balbir’s dismay, who disapproved of his methods and sent him to boarding school. After returning home as an adult, he found himself unfavorably compared to his estranged brother-in-law and ended up saying something that prompted Balbir to kick him out once again.
Plot
Ranviai “Fai” Singh is the son of Valvaru Singh, a powerful industrialist from Delhi, who owns Showstick Steel, an ethnic steel empire. Fai is an aggressive person with extreme masculine views. Despite the fact that Valvarium is a strict father, Fai idolizes and worships him. Wolverio doesn’t know about his son’s devotion to him due to his busy schedule, which also prevents him from spending time with his family.
One day, Balbir throws out a teenager, Vijay, at a boarding school in the US when Vijay threatens his elder sister’s sand goons with an AK-47. Vijay completes his training and becomes a spacecraft engineer and returns home after many years. During Balbir’s birthday party, Vijay gets into a fight with his brother-in-law Varun, due to which Balbir throws him out of the house again. Vijay marries his childhood friend Geetanjali and the couple ends up with their family and moves to the US, where they have two children.
Eight years later, Vijay, a bearded animal, returns to India when he learns that Balbir is a victim of an attempt to murder. After meeting his father, Vijay reconciles and takes charge of his family and openly threatens to slit the throats of those involved in the attempted murder on live television. He picks up his cousin from the village for backup security and recruits a doppelganger for his father, who is eventually killed by a gangster named Israr Haq.
Vijay discovers Varun’s role in the assassination attempt and publicly kills him at a conference with his cousins, where Asrar is also present. When Vijay and his cousins meet Freddy, a weapons dealer, at a hotel, Asrar arrives with the attackers to kill Vijay. Vijay takes them all down with a machine gun, but Asrar shoots him multiple times, yet Vijay kills Asrar and threatens to destroy everyone involved, but is seriously injured and bedridden with a damaged sense of hearing.
Two weeks later, Vijay’s heart is transplanted. In Scotland, Ashar’s brother Abrar Haq receives news of Ishrar’s death during Abrar’s third marriage and kills Rasool publicly on the occasion of marriage. Abrar and his other brother Abid go to a house, where they shoot the person who sees Ishrar, revealing that Abrar was behind the murderous attack on Balbir.
Vijay recovers after several months and contacts his heart donor’s fiance Zoya. Vijay initiates an extramarital affair with Zoya, who eventually reveals that he was sent by Abrar to frame him so that one of his brothers, who was transformed into another Vijay through plastic surgery, kills his family. Vijay reveals that he already knew about her and used to play together to figure out the identity of the brain, but allows her to leave unharmed after insulting her.
Vijay learns from his grandfather Rajdhir Singh that Abrar and his siblings are Vijay’s other cousins. He is the grandson of Rajdhir’s elder brother Shamsher Singh. Rajdhir had condemned Shamsher’s immoral acts. Shamsher’s son Azeem, who had converted to Islam and married several times, was deprived of any share of Balbir’s assets, due to which Shamsher committed suicide by setting himself on fire. Abrar, who had witnessed his grandfather’s suicide, fell silent in shock. Later, Vijay reveals his relationship with Jaya to Geetanjali, who is upset, but the two put aside their differences.
Vijay and his cousin fly to Scotland and manage to stop Abrar and Abid from leaving the country by private jet. A brutal fight breaks out between Vijay and Abrar on the catwalk, where Abrar almost kills Vijay, but neutralizes him and slits his throat after Abrar refuses to target Balbir.
During Diwali, Balbir revealed that he has stage IV acute lymphoblastic leukemia with only a few months left to survive. She realises that her lack of love for her son has always been the main reason for Vijay’s aggression. Balbir finally apologizes to Vijay, who later cries bitterly with the pain of losing his father. Geetanjali leaves Vijay with her children for the US, but their son Abhay runs away to Vijay.
In the post-credit scene, Haq, a butcher in Istanbul and the youngest of the Haq brothers, is portrayed as undergoing plastic surgery to look like Vijay. Zoya and Abid are with her, and Zoya is revealed to be pregnant, though she is not sure if the baby’s father is Aziz or Vijay. After violently killing vijay’s two cousins, Aziz sets out with Abid to avenge the death of his two elder brothers.
Development
In September 2019, it was reported that Sandeep Reddy Vanga will turn producer for his next directorial in Bollywood. It was also reported that he will produce the project with Murad Khetani, Ashwin Varde, Bhushan Kumar and Kishan Kumar under CineOne Studios and T-Series. On 10 October, the company and Vanga’s new production, Bhadrakali Pictures, announced their collaboration for Vanga’s next directorship. This is his second collaboration after Kabir Singh (2019). In early December, Vanga approached Ranbir Kapoor to play the lead role in the film. ETimes reported that Kapoor was “ready” to work on the film, however, he will finalise it only after hearing the final script, which is still in the process of writing.
In June 2020, however, it was reported that Vanga met Kapoor in January and narrated another scene, allegedly named Shaitan. At the end of December, Anil Kapoor was reported to be part of the cast. On January 1, 2021, the company made an official public announcement of the project, which also revealed the film’s title and crew. [19] In late April, Bobby Deol and Parineeti Chopra were selected, with the former playing the lead role, while the latter playing the lead role.
In March 2022, it was reported that Rashmika Mandanna is going to dance to an item number for the film. The same month, Mandana had replaced Chopra, as Vanga was not satisfied with Chopra’s casting during the photoshoot. On 2 April, Mandana’s commitments were officially announced. Mandana called it a “dream interpretation”. Vanga cited The Total Bill as an inspiration for the film’s action scenes. Similarly, Kapoor rockstar’s look was inspired by Michael Jackson, as reported by hairdresser Aleem Hakim. In 2025, during thandal’s pre-release ceremony, Vanga revealed that she was the protagonist of the film Naga Chaitanya whose style with long hair and beard as well as real clothes impressed the protagonist’s look.
Music
The music of the film was composed by Harshvardhan Rameshwar, who wrote the music for the Hindi language remake of Reddy’s previous films Arjun Reddy and Kabir Singh. The film stars AR Rahman, Pritam, JAM 8, Vishal Mishra, Johnny, Manan Bhardwaj, Shreyas Prank, Ashim Kemson, Harshvardhan Rameshwar, Bhupendra Babbal. The songs are written by Manoj Muntashir, Raj Shekhar, Siddharth Garima, Johnny, Manan Bhardwaj, Ashim Kemson and Bhupendra Babbal.
The album consists of eight songs including four singles – “Hawa Mein”,”Satranga”, “Papa Meri Jaan” and “Arjun Valley” – released before the sound’s release. The animal soundtrack was released on November 24, 2023 at a music presentation and fan experience event held at Mehboob Studio in Mumbai. A deluxe edition album was released on January 15, 2024 with nine additional songs.
Box office
Animal broke several box office records for a Hindi film. The film had the fourth highest pre-booking in Hindi cinema and the third highest pre-booking for 2023 after Jawan and Pathan. On its premiere day, the film grossed a total of 63.8 crores (USD 7.4 million) in India, the second highest after Jawan, with a global revenue of USD 116 crore (US$13 million), including USD 5.5 million overseas (USD 46 million). It eventually became the highest-ever off-sixth opening for a Hindi film, breaking the previous record of Ranbir Kapoor’s Brahmastra: Part One – Shiva.
On the second day, it grossed over Rs 67 crore in India and over Rs 70 crore on the third day and grossed a net three-day total of Rs 201 crore and became one of the fastest Hindi films to achieve after Jawan, making it the third top opening weekend for Hindi films. Worldwide,
they earned more than 100 crores (US$12 million) for three consecutive days during the first weekend, taking the total collection worldwide to 356 crores (US$42.1 million). The first Monday and Tuesday were one of its most pure Hindi collections. In the first week, they earned a total of ₹563 crore (US₹65 million) worldwide. On its eighth day, the film surpassed the Global Sanju Collection (2018) to become the highest-grossing film of Kapoor’s career.