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Vijay Deverakonda on boycott Bollywood development: ‘Shouldn’t we launch our motion pictures?’

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Actor Vijay Deverakonda has been busy selling his pan Indian movie Liger throughout India. On Saturday, as ‘Boycott Liger‘ trended on social media, Vijay addressed the issue during a press event in Vijaywada. The Arjun Reddy actor was asked about the ‘boycott’ tradition that has engulfed throughout Hindi cinema and its actors for the time being. Liger turned the goal of trolls after Vijay supported actor Aamir Khan and his newest movie Laal Singh Chaddha.

Vijay stated that he, together with Karan Johar, Charmme Kaur, Puri Jagannadh and others within the movie’s group have labored exhausting for 3 years to finish the movie amid the pandemic. At the Vijaywada occasion, Vijay stated, “Three years back, in 2019 we started this film. Back then, this ‘boycott Bollywood’ wasn’t there. All this started in the lockdown and we were already into the shooting schedules by that time. At that time, we felt like there was no option better than Karan (Johar) sir to take our movie India-wide. He took Baahubali and showed us a way in North India which was an unknown territory for us. Script and production was ours. When we requested him to release the movie in Hindi, he warmly took it and now we got humongous reach in the North.”

The actor, who performs the position of a boxer within the movie, additionally expressed concern concerning the rationale for the social media hatred. “I don’t know exactly what is their (online trolls) issue and what they want. We are correct on our side. I was born in Hyderabad. Charmme was born in Punjab. Puri sir was born in Narsipatnam. Shouldn’t we work? We have worked hard for three years to make this cinema. Shouldn’t we release our movies? Should we sit in homes? You all have been seeing the love that the audiences have been showering on us. I am doing movies for those audiences. I need those audiences. There is no need for any fear until we have these people for us,” Vijay stated.

He added, “When we are correct and when we do our dharma, there is no need to listen to anybody and let there be anything coming, we must fight. I have no fear and I know that in complete honesty, we have done it with our hearts. We all are from this country and we know how much we do for our people and country. We are not from that batch who sits in front of computers and tweets. We are the one who steps in first if something happens.” Just earlier than the occasion, Vijay had tweeted the same assertion.

Liger is a Hindi and Telugu bilingual and in addition stars actor Ananya Panday within the lead position. The movie will launch in theatres on August 25.