{"id":33704,"date":"2023-12-10T07:45:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T07:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/animal-star-mansi-taxak-defends-marital-rape-scene-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-12-10T07:45:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T07:45:13","slug":"animal-star-mansi-taxak-defends-marital-rape-scene-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/animal-star-mansi-taxak-defends-marital-rape-scene-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Animal’ star Mansi Taxak defends marital rape scene | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bollywood actor Mansi Taxak has landed herself in hot waters after passing comments on her controversial wedding night scene from the recently released Animal<\/em>. The particular scene has been denounced by many for depicting marital rape. In the film, the actor plays one of the three wives of Bobby Deol\u2019s actor Abrar Haque. However, in an interview with Zoom Entertainment<\/a>, Mansi denied any form of assault occurring in the scene.<\/p>\n

Nodding at Abrar\u2019s ‘twisted’ nature, the actor attributed his actions to his \u2018animal instincts’ during the specific sequence. Directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga and featuring Ranbir Kapoor, Animal <\/em>has faced criticism for portraying toxic masculinity and misogyny, mirroring Vanga’s past work on Kabir Singh<\/em>. Also starring Rashmika Mandanna, Anil Kapoor and Triptii Dimri, the film has become a massive success, raking in approximately INR550 crores worldwide.<\/p>\n

During the interview, Mansi was directly questioned about the wedding scene where Abrar reacts violently after receiving news of his brother’s death. \u201cIt is shocking, of course,\u201d she stated. \u201cNobody expects their wedding to end that way. When the wedding sequence starts, if you see the lights [and] 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,\u201d the actor appreciated the scene\u2019s opening aesthetics.<\/p>\n

Emphasising the unexpected turn of events as a deliberate narrative choice to highlight the antagonist’s instability, the 25-year-old insisted, \u201cIt was to tell the audience that an animal is coming; if you thought Ranbir was this way, you can expect the villain to be [worse].\u201d She further contended that the sequence was crucial in setting up Bobby\u2019s character and the film\u2019s preoccupation with violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would not wish for that to happen at my wedding ever!\u201d Mansi added. However, the Pathaan <\/em>actor was not shocked by her scene\u2019s negative reception. \u201c[I] completely get where people are coming from\u2026[but] 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\u2019s death news to come at the wedding, which puts the character into a zone where he couldn\u2019t think straight,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

Tying it with Animal<\/em>\u2019s central theme, Mansi continued, \u201cAnimal instincts are unpredictable instincts. So he goes into that zone, and to vent out his emotions, he comes to his wives. I don\u2019t think it was intended to be any sort of assault. I didn\u2019t feel it on the set or in the script. That was not the case. It was just a relationship between two people that panned out the way it did.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actor expressed her admiration for Bobby\u2019s acting in the scene and insisted that the couple was in love. \u201cIf 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\u2026It tells you the back-story, that besides their differences, their age, their careers, they do love each other, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re getting married.\u201d As per Mansi, while she denies any depiction of assault, it is cinema\u2019s duty to capture such relationships on the big screen because \u201cthere are people who are doing these things to their wives\u201d.<\/p>\n

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