Animal: Bobby Deol BREAKS Silence on 'Performing' Marital Rape Scene, Says 'I Had No Inhibitions...'

Bobby Deol opened up filming the controversial marital rape scene in Animal. The actor played the role of a mute Abrar in the film and has a scene, right after his wedding with his third wife, where he forces himself on his new bride. The scene has drawn criticism on social media. In a new interview, Bobby said that he had no inhibitions while filming the scene. He added that director Sandeep Reddy Vanga made him feel safe.

“From the time I heard my character, I knew there was so much I could do with it without even speaking a word. In fact, without speaking a word gave me some kind of energy that brought something out in me,” Bobby told Bollywood Bubble. “When I was performing, I had no inhibitions whatsoever,” he added.

Speaking about his grey character, Bobby explained, “I was just portraying this character who is savage, who is an evil man and this is how he treats his women, this is how he is. And that’s how I portrayed it. He’s a romantic actually with his three wives.”

Last week, Mansi Taxak, who played his third wife in the film, also weighed in on the controversial scene. Speaking to Zoom Entertainment, Mansi said, “It is shocking, of course. Nobody expects their wedding to end that way. When the wedding sequence starts, if you see the lights, 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. It 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). It was an apt way to establish Bobby sir’s character and to show the audience what real animal we’re talking about.” Mansi added, “I would not wish that to happen at my wedding ever!”

Speaking about the backlash, the actress said she understands ‘where people are coming from, but that was not the intent.’ “Animal instincts are unpredictable instincts. So he goes into that zone, and to vent out his emotions, he comes to his wives. I don’t think it was intended to be any sort of assault. I didn’t feel it on the set, or in the script. That was not the case. It was just a relationship between two people that has panned out the way it did,” she said.