Telugu star Vijay Deverakonda’s much-awaited Hindi debut Liger failed on the field workplace, leading to losses for the movie’s distributors, particularly within the southern market. Now, the movie’s director and co-producer Puri Jagannath is receiving dying threats from the distributors for allegedly inflicting his monetary loss. Puri has sought police safety.
According to a report in Pinkvilla, Puri has written within the police grievance that the distributors can not threaten him in any means. According to the filmmaker, if the distributors had any drawback, they need to have filed a civil case. Puri has additionally claimed that he has ended the deal as per the settlement he signed with the distributor Warangal Srinu and it’s the latter who has not paid the sub-distributor.
Puri Jagannath says he’s involved that his now 85-year-old mother-in-law, his spouse and daughter are susceptible to struggling due to the scenario.
Earlier, filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma had posted a WhatsApp screenshot containing a message from distributors, calling for a protest outdoors Puri’s home in Hyderabad. He wrote within the caption of the tweet, “Threatened to spread message to distribution groups about Liger”.
LIGER. threatening to broadcast messages in distribution teams about pic.twitter.com/RkYRYkNrwz
— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) 24 October 2022
The message written in Telugu interprets to, “A complete of 83 distributors had been victims of Liger. We are going to carry Puri Jagannath House dharna on twenty seventh of this month. Therefore every exhibitor ought to convey clothes for not less than 4 days of keep. If anybody doesn’t dare to return ahead then their identify will probably be faraway from the listing of beneficiaries. If nobody comes that day then you’ll not get any name from us. No additional data will probably be given. It could be nice if everybody might come.”
Ligar was launched in Hindi and Telugu. It additionally starred Ananya Panday, Ramya Krishna and Ronit Roy in lead roles. The movie was a co-production between Karan Johar, Puri Jagannadh and Charmi Kaur.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
