Writer, director Sandeep Reddy Vanga who famously or infamously made Arjun Reddy (2017) / Kabir Singh (2019), is back with another one in his style - Animal. The Hindi movie starring Ranbir Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Rashmika Mandanna, Bobby Deol among others had its trailer release earlier in the day, and one of the scenes in the video cut, featured Ranbir wielding a big machine gun. 

To the Tamil audience this scene is reminiscent of director Lokesh Kangaraj's works, since movies from his LCU franchise - Kaithi (2019) and Vikram (2022) popularized the use of heavy machine guns by lead actors. Post the Animal trailer drop, a Tamil netizen posted about having to blame director Lokesh Kanagaraj for setting this trend.

Ok bro 👍🏻 pic.twitter.com/vYU6BKyIiF

— Ramsaeyyy (@this_is_ramsehh) November 23, 2023

You have to blame Fast and Furious 7 for this.... Literally every movie after that

"I am the cavalry" pic.twitter.com/loc0S0KInK

— Hunter (@varunyl350) November 23, 2023

Actually its started from...KGF 2

— Raghavendra Sharadamma/ರಾಘವೇಂದ್ರ ಶಾರದಮ್ಮ. (@Raghavansuriya) November 23, 2023

Prashant neel* correct me if I am wrong

— Snez (@SnehithBonagiri) November 23, 2023

2009 Diwali pic.twitter.com/bD8701o4Zr

— VK (@ViKumar469) November 23, 2023

Rana vikrama kannada film before lokesh entering into cinema. pic.twitter.com/2tshAU2Cac

— Akshay S (@CinemaLiebe) November 23, 2023

Blame Neel 🤐 pic.twitter.com/j2QF5lKIND

— Harish M L (@1ly_Harish) November 23, 2023

Don't blame lokesh kanakaraj . Because lokesh kanakaraj also copied from Hollywood Arnold movie 😎.

— బారిష్టర్🕺పార్వతీశం (@introvertKabaap) November 23, 2023

Bro neenga blame panna vendeethu Vince Gilligan haaa bro 😂😂😂

— Eren Yeager (@Eren_yeagerOG) November 23, 2023

pic.twitter.com/cWzdXJqSQc

— ಸ್ವಾಮಿ (@swami_kannadiga) November 23, 2023

Tamil guys have a unique talent to subtly make everything about themselves.

— ss (@shivams49442990) November 23, 2023

Sylvester Stallone in Rambo 3 in 1988 is the oldest one I can recall from world cinema overall... pic.twitter.com/a0XA8OLHxz

— ವಿಕ್ರಮ್ ಪ್ರಭು | Vikram Prabhu (@TheLostIndian18) November 23, 2023

The Principal . https://t.co/RZm5xnd2X2 pic.twitter.com/nBqKUFUcga

— Khanna Shruv (@Spidey2Tom) November 23, 2023

Blaming Louis Le Prince & Johann Zahn for this atrocity! Literally, every movie is filmed with camera. https://t.co/xvVwm2fooe

— Cringineer 🇵🇸 (@cring_i_neer) November 23, 2023

Few Movies before kaithi had such scenes with machine gun.
But it was kaithi's scene which was high intense and was recognised by many, so Loki started the trend. And followed by KGF, Vikram, Thunivu, Mark Antony etc.. https://t.co/A7HwkZf65u

— Fdp (@lovelyfpras7) November 23, 2023

Machine Gun Scene in TZH (2017) 🔥@BeingSalmanKhan #Tiger3 #SalmanKhanpic.twitter.com/Ph9RZUWct4 https://t.co/1jKICulBpE

— ° (@Tiger3_SK) November 23, 2023

shit looks straight from a ps3 https://t.co/2htTzf70P3

— franku babu don’t miss | నంద గోపాల్ 🇵🇸 (@avakaya69) November 23, 2023

After the filmmaker's official handle liked said X post, the original social media poster clarified that his tweet was sent out in jest, and he did not mean it seriously. Lokesh Kanagaraj has liked this post as well. 

Animal releases in theaters on December 1, 2o23 in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada languages.