Vijay Deverakonda says 'audience is important' if Liger fails to perform: 'Love that I have received...'

Vijay Deverakonda and Ananya Panday will star together for the first time in Puri Jagannadh's film Liger, featuring Mike Tyson. The duo is leaving no stone unturned in promoting the film in full swing.

They are traveling across the country and giving back-to-back interviews making us all go WOW at them. Well, the love the film is receiving even before its release is immense. It also stands as a testimony that Liger will hopefully break all the records and turn out to be a massive earner.

In a press conference in Delhi to promote Liger, Vijay opened up about the negativity surrounding the film on social media. The Arjun Reddy star said that the love that he is receiving for the film is in abundance. Talking about if the film fails to perform, he said, "Had you asked me this question a few years back, I would have replied with anger. I would have been so angry. However, with the kind of love that I have received in the last few days, it would be a disrespect to that (love) if I react angrily to such small things around. I want to remember the love. The audience is important, we work for them, and we travel cities just to meet them and we want to win their love.”

Talking about the negativity being spread around the film industry, he said, “I had to fight for money, for respect. I had to fight to make a mark for myself, to get work. Every film was a struggle, a fight. For my first film, we did not get a producer for it. We had pooled in money, we had worked for free on the film so that it could be made and so that it can get the love of the audience. We did not even find people to release it. It took us months because we were nobody, but the film was a huge hit."

Release date

It is Ananya and Arjun's first Pan India film and it will hit the theatre on August 25.