Animal and Sam Bahadur: These 2 movies teach us great money lessons
film is about a leader of men who lived his life fearlessly in service to the nation, and the other is about a bearded angry man drenched in blood laughing about male body parts and treating women like property, oh yes, in the name of his daddy. Animal is about Ranbir Kapoor who loves his ‘papa’ Balbir Singh (played by Anil Kapoor) so much that he asks his mother why he cannot be called Balbir II like the sons of kings who took on their father’s name upon coronation. But young Ranbir has a temper, so his father sends him off to America to learn some discipline.
His older sister’s husband begins to help out Balbir Singh in his steel factory business. Ranbir comes back upon hearing that his ‘papa’ has been shot by unknown assailants. Ranbir embarks on a killing spree to avenge his dad.
Dad doesn’t like it but looks like he doesn’t have much of a say... Much blood is shed, many sidekicks are slashed and stabbed and the director attempts to tell us that Indian men will behave ‘animal-like’ because their dads don’t have the time for them, and will be ‘violent’ (their enunciation, not mine) because young men love their fathers. On the other hand, Sam Bahadur is a tiresome cinematic charting of a wiki page of India’s finest army man: Field Marshal Manekshaw.
The man who fought in five wars for the country and retired in grace and won the admiration of the soldiers he led on the battlefield. The director seems to be so much in awe of the man, that the film fails to deliver any inspiring message. Despite the awesome subject, the film lacks soul.
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