Disclaimer: This article contains spoilers from Animal.

Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal starring Ranbir Kapoor, Rashmika Mandanna, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol and others, arrived in cinemas today. The action thriller unveils a father-son story. Towards the end of the revenge-fueled action, the film drops two post-credits scenes. And it looks like a sequel is in the works.

What happens in the post-credits scenes of Animal?

Animal ends with Ranbir Kapoor’s Ranvijay or Viijay Singh finding out that Bobby Deol’s Abrar Haque was the one trying to get his father – Anil Kapoor’s Balbir Singh, murdered. Vijay defeats Abrar but there is a larger scheme in motion to take the Singh family down. One of Abrar’s brothers, Aziz, has been getting surgery to look exactly like Vijay.

In the first post-credits scene, Aziz enters with two butcher knives. He looks at Triptii Dimri’s Zoya to confirm if he looks like Vijay before he proceeds to violently kill one out of two of Vijay’s men who are tied up in a bathroom. In reaction, Zoya rushes out to vomit. A blood-drenched Aziz tells Zoya that her vomiting might mean she is pregnant. He tells her that if the child doesn’t look like him (and Vijay) that means he is the father. After this exchange, Aziz returns to kill the second man. We then see text that reads, “Animal Park” appear on the screen along with a “visit soon” hinting at a sequel. It looks like Sandeep Reddy Vanga has future plans for the characters in Animal.

The next scene is a black-and-white shot that sees an aged Vijay talking to a crowd during a celebration of the Singh family business’ milestone. Gesturing at the camera he points towards his crotch, referencing a story he narrated at the start of the film. Fans who have watched the film will know what it means.

So far, news of an Animal sequel film has not been announced. But the unveiling of Animal Park hints at a return where Vijay and Aziz might go up against each other, continuing the violent family feud.

Animal is currently in theatres.

No Congress leader can be “poached”, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar told NDTV Friday, a day after exit polls gave the party a surprise win over the BRS in the Telangana Assembly election and an outside shot at defeating the BJP in the Madhya Pradesh polls.

The tight race expected in Madhya Pradesh – three of six exit polls have given the Congress a slight edge – has triggered talk of “resort politics”, which is when political parties stash MLAs at luxury resorts or hotels, and mount a 24×7 guard, to prevent them from joining rival outfits.

Reports suggest the party will send its Madhya Pradesh election winners – assuming there are enough to challenge the BJP in a state it has dominated for close to two decades – to Karnataka.

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The Congress had won back the southern state from the BJP earlier this year.

“Our national and state leaders are confident. No Congress MLA can be bought or poached,” Mr Shivakumar, who played a key role in the party’s Karnataka win, told NDTV this afternoon.

He said those speaking of “resort politics” were “not properly informed”.

“This is a rumour. Congress leaders are confident that all our MLAs are loyal. They have seen ‘Operation Lotus’ (allegations the BJP poaches opposition lawmakers) and it won’t be successful.”

Mr Shivakumar also said his sources had told him Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, or KCR, had already approached several Congress leaders. “This will not happen,” he stressed.

The Congress is widely expected to defeat the BRS that has ruled Telangana since its formation in 2014; exit polls indicate it will get at least 62 seats in the 119-member Assembly and the BRS 44.

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A restrained Mr Shivakumar told NDTV that while he, personally, did not believe exit polls, his own post-poll surveys and calculations have pointed to a big Congress win.

“Personally I don’t believe in exit polls… this is my personal opinion. When I do my own surveys I take a sample of over a lakh. What the media does is take a sample size of 5,000-6,000…”

“But I can see, in Telangana and other states, there is a big wave. People want change… they want the Congress to come to power in Madhya Pradesh and Telangana, and I hope this will happen.”

“Whatever numbers are predicted (in Telangana) I think it will hold true,” he said.

As for the Madhya Pradesh result, he slammed the BJP government as “the most corrupt” the state has ever had. “When the result will be out, there will be a Congress government here too,” he said.

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Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Friday raised concerns over overwhelming barrage of speech that distorts the truth with the advent of troll armies and organised disinformation campaigns across social media platforms.

“Traditionally, freedom of speech and expression was deemed to be an essential part of civil rights activism because of the fear that the government would prevent certain kinds of speech from entering the marketplace,” Chief Justice Chandrachud said at the 14th Justice VM Tarkunde memorial lecture.

“With the advent of troll armies and organised disinformation campaigns across different social media platforms, the fear is that there is an overwhelming barrage of speech that distorts the truth,” the Chief Justice said.

“This epistemological battle of sorts was explained eloquently in the New York Times in 2020, where it said ‘the spewing of falsehoods isn’t meant to win any battle of ideas. Its goal is to prevent the actual battle from being fought’. Therefore, we cannot fall back on traditional notions of free speech and must find new theoretical frameworks to locate free speech on the internet,” he said.

Chief Justice Chandrachud said the intricate interplay between surveillance by the state and an individual’s right to privacy has been a subject of compelling debate within Indian jurisprudence. The first case that dealt with privacy was R Rajagopal vs State of Tamil Nadu, he said, adding the court determined that a magazine has the right to publish an autobiography penned by a prisoner, even in the absence of the prisoner’s consent or authorisation.

“Despite efforts by prison officials to hinder the publication by compelling the prisoner to request its non-publication, the court underscored the need to maintain a delicate equilibrium between press freedom and the right to privacy,” Chief Justice Chandrachud said.

On Justice Tarkunde, the Chief Justice said the core emphasis of the civil liberties movement that Justice Tarkunde championed is mirrored by digital rights activism today.

Chief Justice Chandrachud, looking back on Justice Tarkunde’s dedication to civil liberties, said he inspired him as a young lawyer.

“…It continues to inspire me as I serve as a judge of a constitutional court. That Justice Tarkunde is regarded as the ‘Father of the Civil Rights Movement’ is no surprise. In every role he donned – as a senior advocate, High Court judge, and activist – he was steadfast in his commitment to democracy, radical humanism, and civil liberty,” Chief Justice Chandrachud said.

“… No book, academic article or chronicle of the internal emergency imposed in the 1970s is complete without a reference to Justice Tarkunde’s spirited defence of personal liberty and democracy, both inside and outside the courtroom,” the Chief Justice said.