Since the release of 'Animal' and the backlash the film has received from critics for being misogynistic and problematic, Sandeep Reddy Vanga has made several controversial remarks. In one of his interviews, Sandeep talked about one thing that Ranbir Kapoor didn't like about the film. He shared that Ranbir never questioned anything except one. Vanga mentioned in his interview that Ranbir was not okay with the tag 'superstar' associated with his name in the title credits of the film.

“He didn’t like it at all. I was going to place the superstar tag in the audio teaser. He saw and he said, ‘Nahi, ye nikal do. They do it in the South but not here.’ I told him, ‘Ranbir, this is my feeling, my conviction.’ Through the three years we’ve worked together, that was the only thing Ranbir refused to. He never said no for anything. By the time the poster came in, I told him, ‘If you say no also, I am going to put it.’ That is my feeling, that he is a superstar,” Sandeep told Komal Nahta in an interview.