Director Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s surprising choice for Kabir Singh lead actor | – Times of India

Sandeep Reddy Vanga, who is currently riding high on the super success of the Ranbir Kapoor starrer ‘Animal‘, is also known for Kabir Singh, the hindi remake of his Telugu superhit Arjun Reddy. However, it is well known that Shahid Kapoor was actually not the first choice for the movie.

In an interview with IDream Media, Sandeep said that he wanted Ranveer Singh in the film, but he found the role too ‘dark.’ Elaborating, Sandeep said that he was continuously getting calls from Mumbai to do the remake. First, it was pitched to Ranveer Singh, and Sandeep wanted to do it with him. However, finally, he decided that he would not do it because it was too dark for him at that time.
Coming back to Animal, it was recently revealed that Ranveer Singh called him after the release of the movie and spoke to him for 40 long minutes on phone.

In a Dainik Bhaskar interview clip on Reddit, Sandeep Reddy Vanga shared Ranveer Singh’s reaction to Animal. Vanga expressed his own surprise, mentioning that the actor spoke to him for almost 40 minutes over the phone. He found the lengthy message from Singh enjoyable, having read it multiple times. While the specific details of the message couldn’t be disclosed, Vanga noted that Singh highlighted aspects of Animal that made him realize, “Oh, this is also in my film.”

In the interview, director Sandeep Reddy Vanga addressed a media report that quoted a statement he had previously made. He highlighted the context in which the second ex-wife of a superstar criticized films such as Baahubali 2 and Kabir Singh, accusing them of potentially promoting misogyny and condoning stalking.
Addressing the assertion, Sandeep conveyed his opinion that the individual making the claim might not grasp the distinction between pursuing someone and approaching them respectfully. To illustrate his point, he referenced Rahul’s character in the movie Darr, played by Shah Rukh Khan, where the character persistently follows Kiran despite her expressed disinterest, defining such behavior as stalking.

Sandeep Reddy Vanga countered the comparison by emphasizing that, unlike the character in Darr who incessantly follows the object of his affection, Kabir Singh only approaches the person he likes within a classroom setting. He questioned the need to magnify the act of a boy approaching a girl, stating that it is a common and acceptable practice for expressing romantic interest.