Animal Trailer: Ranbir Kapoor in his Terrifying, Intriguing Avtar Ever

The trailer of Ranbir Kapoor’s much awaited gangster-action-thriller film Animal is out, and it is gleefully violent, bloody, and emotional.

The son of a rich man, Kapoor’s character has a relationship with his father which is carved in blood and shaped by this darkness, he embraces his bloodlust and becomes a psychotic bloodthirsty killer.

The trailer sees the actor with a rather psychotic look in his eyes asking Anil Kapoor to re-enact a memory of his childhood when he had asked him to take him to a Michael Jackson concert. Somewhat disturbed at the request, Kapoor nonetheless complies and keeps saying “Papa Papa” until Ranbir yells at him telling him, “I can hear you! I’m not deaf!”

An ode to his strained childhood, the actor plays the role of Arjun Singh who always idolized his father but rarely got anything from him. Though Balbir does love his son, his work as a businessman keeps him occupied. Neglected though still a loving son, as he grows up Arjun has a family of his own with his wife Geetanjali played by Rashmika Mandanna.

Visiting his father one day at the hospital when he was shot, Arjun vows to exact vengeance from the one who shot him and embarks on a full on bloodbath. From then on, there is a lot of a gory action which is almost shot in John Wick style, only instead of guns it is axes, and cleavers.

Even choking his own wife when she chides him for his brutality, Arjun becomes more and more psychotic everyday while Balbir is angry at his son for doing anything without consulting him. He replies: “I’ll be doing a hundred things from now papa, can’t really consult you for everything.”

But for all his psychotic and bloodthirsty instincts, there is one character who is even more brutal than him. This marks the introduction of Bobby Deol who crashes a wedding, and wearing a suit is fully covered in the blood of someone who was likely the groom-to-be.

Engaging in a fist fight, both Kapoor and Deol fight in a private airstrip in a one-sided fight where Deol is pounding Ranbir brutally. Cutting to the end, it shows a victorious Deol lying on top of Ranbir with their shirts off, and bloodied lighting a cigarette.

The music composed by Pritam, Jaani, Manan Bharadwaj, Vishal Mishra among others with the BGM of Harshwardhan Rameshwar. Written-directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, Animal releases on December 1, the film also features Triptii Dimri, Shakti Kapoor, Prem Chopra, and Suresh Oberoi, among others.