Imran Khan Slams Ranbir Kapoor's Animal? Says Violence Is 'Sexualised' Today: 'They Make It Cool And Sexy...'

As fans await Imran Khan’s big comeback, the actor recently opened up about his sense of where cinema is currently. He said that today, violence is sexualised in films and added that he does not want to play a character that solves problems with guns. Several people also took this to be a dig at Ranbir Kapoor’s Animal.

Imran said to Film Companion, “I have a sense about where cinema is these days. There is a glamourization and a fetishization and sexualisation of violence that makes me uncomfortable. There is a way to portray violence. This is not a morality thing. Violence and action are… it is a language in cinema but when we communicate it, when we portray it in films, there is a way to do it where you feel the weight of it.”

“The Joker film, which came out a couple of years ago, there’s a scene in which he attacks a guy suddenly and stabs him to death. I remember watching that scene play out and it was shattering, brutal and horrifying. I was shaking… because that’s what violence is. If you see someone stabbed to death, you’ll be shaking,” he added.

The actor said, “We’ve started making films where heroes will just go in and boom, boom, boom, shoot seven people in the head and their heads explode to music and they make it ‘cool’ and ‘sexy’. That makes me uncomfortable. There’s enough of that. I don’t want to play a character who solves problems with a gun.”

The video went viral across social media. Several fans of the actor thought that Imran was taking a dig at Ranbir Kapoor and Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal. However, many people also disagreed, stating that several films have action sequences the way Imran described them.