The wait for Vijay Deverakonda’ Liger trailer is over, as his fans were treated to an action filled thriller trailer. Vijay and Ananya Panday’s upcoming sports drama, Liger, has left the audience probably feel an old wine in a new bottle.
Vijay plays an MMA fighter whose stage name is ‘Liger’, because he is a cross between a lion and a tiger. Along the way, we’re told that he also has a speech impediment, and he channels his frustrations in the ring.
While the film’s first glimpse introduced Vijay Deverakonda’s character, the trailer takes us inside his wild world. It begins with Vijay Deverakonda entering the ring, with Ramya Krishnan’s voice briefing the reason behind the name ‘Liger’ for her son. “My son is a crossbreed, born to a lion and a tiger,” she utters. After Baahubali, Ramya Krishnan is back as the powerful mother figure in yet another pan-India film.
Liger Trailer kills the hype – Nothing but shouting, and action
The trailer is filled with a lot of shouts, punches, raging and Ananya Panday looking glamorous without really letting the audience know us what role she is playing in the story.
Vijay seems to have recreated his Arjun Reddy avatar (yet again) for the film, and so has set everyone anticipation, it will be another endless shouting drama — in short, this feels like a bit of an overdose of what we have seen of him and can expect.
The trailer also reveals Ramya Krishnan as Liger’s wise-cracking mother, who supports her son from the sidelines, and ends with a quick glimpse at a cackling Mike Tyson, who arrives looking like a rodeo cowboy, and appears to be playing some kind of villain.
Recently, Vijay Deverakonda had expressed how drained the film had left him. He’d written in a social media post, “A film that took my everything. As a performance, mentally, physically my most challenging role. I give you everything! Coming soon. #Liger.”
Deverakonda also shared a poster, which boldly features the tagline ‘Saala crossbreed’. While Vijay shot to fame with his Telugu films Arjun Reddy, Geetha Govindam and Dear Comrade, Ananya Panday made her film debut in 2019 with Student of the Year 2, and has starred in films such as Khali Peeli, Gehraiyaan and Pati, Patni Aur Woh.
Directed by Puri Jagannadh and co-produced by Karan Johar, Liger has been simultaneously filmed in Hindi and Telugu. It’s being touted both as a pan-India film and as Vijay’s Bollywood debut. The film also stars Ronit Roy and Makarand Deshpande in supporting roles, and is set to release on August 25 this year.