Bhubaneswar, April 16 -- Critics and audiences may have hailed 'Animal' as a box office juggernaut but the film's contentious themes have sparked backlash. And the latest noted personality to bash Ranbir Kapoor's film is Drishti IAS founder Vikas Divyakirti, who is also an ex-IPS officer. Divyakirti also starred in Vidhu Vinod Chopra's '12th Fail,' which tells the inspiring journey of real-life IPS officer Manoj Kumar Sharma.

In an interview with Neelesh Misra for his show 'Slow Interview', Vikas didn't mince words, condemning Sandeep Reddy Vanga's 'Animal' as regressive and devoid of social value.

He lamented, "A film like Animal takes our society back by 10 years... There should be some social value, or are people working only for fin...