Sandeep Reddy Vanga goes bald at Tirumala temple, offers his hair after Animal’s success. Watch

Sandeep Reddy Vanga goes bald at Tirumala temple, offers his hair after Animal’s success. Watch

Sandeep Reddy Vanga had one of the biggest hits of 2023 with his film Animal. The Ranbir Kapoor-starrer made over Rs 900 crore globally and became the biggest hit of the actor and the director’s career. On Wednesday, director Sandeep was seen at the Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh as he walked out after offering his prayers.

As Sandeep walked out, he was bald which implied that he had offered his hair at the temple. Sandeep was wearing a blue kurta with a pink scarf. When a few of his fans met him at the temple, he clicked photographs with them. Upon being asked about the next film he was working on, the director named Spirit, his movie starring Prabhas.

Watch | Sandeep Reddy Vanga steps out of Tirumala temple

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Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal got a polarising response from the audience as many believed that film was too violent and glorified misogynistic behaviour. After the release of the movie, Sandeep defended Animal in many interviews but there was a big section of the audience that called out scenes from the film. Veteran writer Javed Akhtar called the movie “dangerous” and spoke about the same at the 9th Ajanta-Ellora International Film Festival in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.

“If there’s a film in which a man asks a woman to lick his shoe or if a man says it’s okay to slap a woman… and the film is a super hit, that’s dangerous,” he said while referring to the scene where Ranbir’s character asks Tripti Dimri’s character to ‘lick his shoe’.

Later, in a chat with Siddharth Kannan, Sandeep Reddy Vanga responded to Akhtar’s criticism and said, “It is very clear that he did not watch the film. It’s very clear in that comment that he did not see the entire film. Now if someone is talking without watching the film, what can I say about them? Obviously you feel bad because it is very clear that he has not seen the film and not only about him, anybody who is throwing stones on an art piece, why don’t they check their surroundings first?”

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