South movie star Vijay Deverakonda is all set to make his debut in Bollywood with his upcoming movie Liger. Bollywood actress Ananya Pandey will be seen romancing Vijay Deverakonda in Liger. Both Ananya and Vijay have been busy promoting their upcoming movie at a time when the majority of Bollywood movies are failing at the box office. The boycott trend of social media has been in some way affecting the movie in terms of its box office earnings and the prime example of this is Aamir Khan's Laal Singh Chaddha. Now, five days ahead of its release, #BoycottLiger started to trend on social media.
#BoycottLiger trending reason lies in two factors- Karan Johar's Dharma Production and Vijay Deverakonda's latest interview in which he came in support of Aamir Khan for his Laal Singh Chaddha and explained why people need to stop doing this.
Talking about the first reason, fans have been fuming at Dharma Production owner Karan Johar ever since Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput died under mysterious circumstances. Sushant Sinh Rajput's death opened a plethora of question and mud-slinging in the Bollywood film industry. Karan Johar was accused by fans and Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut for promoting nepotism and ignoring talent over it. In fact, multiple videos of Karan Johar's Koffee with Karan emerged in which he along with multiple Bollywood actors had allegedly mocked Sushant Singh Rajput. Ever since then, Karan Johar's production projects often draws fans' ire on social media.
Coming to the second reason, South star Vijay Deverakonda had asked the public before boycotting any movie to think about the number of people involved during the making of any film. In an interview with India Today, Deverakonda said, "I just think on a film set, other than the actor, director, and actress, there are many other important characters, there are 200-300 actors working on a film and all of us have staff members, so a film gives employment to many people and is a source of livelihoods for many. When Aamir Khan Sir makes a Laal Singh Chaddha, it is his name that stars in the film, but there are 2000-3000 families that are being provided for. When you decide to boycott a film, you are not only affecting Aamir Khan, you are affecting thousands of families who lose work and livelihoods."
Furthermore, Vijar Deverakonda appealed to the public to see the bigger picture saying when a big budget film fails it also somehow affects the economy of the country.
"Aamir Sir is someone who pulls the crowd to the theatres. I am not sure why this boycott call is happening, but for whatever misunderstanding this is happening, please realize you are not affecting Aamir Khan alone but the economy. It is a much bigger picture," added Deverakonda.
Here's what fans are saying on #BoycottLiger
Vijay Deverkonda blackmails Indians for families of film making crew. Indians have taken contract to look after these families.
Vijay Jee, you must convince Bollywood why they make jokes of Hindu Deities while 80% population is Hindu in India.— Rahul Kumar Mishra (@Diplomaticguru)
I support this trend
And I support
The most trending hashtag on Twitter is— Van|sha mus|ng w|th SSR (@TILIGETITRIGHT)
🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳Jai hind🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
🇮🇳🇮🇳Vande matram🇮🇳🇮🇳
I will boycott this film as Karan Johar is a producer.!— 🌺chandrabhushan🌺 (@33e3b0705865480)
Dont forget this film is also produced by karan johar who hates hindi culture and listen carefully vijay’s words he didnt care about anything so we must be unite this time also for boycott his upcoming movie.
— Devesh Purohit (@DeveshPurohit18)