Updated On: 22 December, 2023 10:32 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Animal director Sandeep Reddy Vanga has been making headlines ever since the release of his film. The director has now been slammed by Gazal Dhaliwal over writer credit

Gazal Dhaliwal and Sandeep Reddy Vanga
`Animal` director Sandeep Reddy Vanga has been in the news lately for his latest film starring Ranbir Kapoor and his controversial opinions and statements n several topics. Now, the filmmaker who is credited as the writer, editor and director of Animal has been slammed by writer Gazal Dhaliwal for sidelining screenwriters who worked on his film. Dhaliwal is most popularly known for penning the Netflix show Mismatched.
Gazal took to her social media handle to highlight the matter of credit. She shared the screenshot of the title credit attributed to Sandeep Reddy Vanga as Writer-Editor-Director. Sharing the screenshot she penned down her thoughts and observations about the same. "There is a particular kind of filmmaker who claims the ‘Writer’ title in the top credit of their film, even when there are other writers who have written the Screenplay and Dialogues of the film. It happens a lot, by the way, in our world. These filmmakers have a deep-seated need of power. Even though being a director is the most powerful anyway. For some reason, it would seem that claiming the ‘Writer’ credit is what gives them the biggest high," she wrote.