Mumbai, Jan. 7 -- Veteran screenwriter-lyricist Javed Akhtar has strongly reacted to Sandeep Reddy Vanga's Animal. In a recent event, Akhtar stated that the popularity of such films is 'dangerous'. Now, Animal makers have slammed the senior screenwriter by saying that his art form is flawed if he cannot understand the betrayal of a lover while referring to the shoe licking scene in the movie.

For those unfamiliar, Akhtar had taken an apparent dig at Animal, in which Ranbir Kapoor's character was seen asking Triptii Dimri's character to lick his shoe. He said, "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."

In response, the officia...