Overview
- Suneel Darshan publicly accused Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s 2023 blockbuster Animal of replicating Jaanwar’s core plot without acknowledgment
- Darshan praised Vanga’s “anokhi” treatment of the material even as he lamented the absence of formal credit for his original story
- Jaanwar, starring Akshay Kumar, was one of 1999’s highest-grossing films and follows an orphaned criminal who reforms to raise an abandoned child
- Animal, led by Ranbir Kapoor, earned ₹915 crore worldwide and won three National Film Awards for its depiction of a son’s violent quest for vengeance
- No legal action has been filed but the dispute has reignited debate over creative credit and narrative borrowing practices in Bollywood