Vijay Devarakonda's Liger only hope for Telegu filmdom- Tamil directors bad for Telegu heroes

 

Will Liger save Tollywood ? Tamil directors a curse for Telegu heroes ? . These questions are popping up as Tollywood like Bollywood is caught in a quagmire. Good content films that are praised by critics are disasters at box office , recent case being Gargi of Sai Pallavi. Here again a film like Major and Vikram to a certain extent raised some buzz but of no use. Close to 400 theaters in Andhra are partially shut (open only for weekends). Now entire theater – distributor groups have only one word and that is Liger of Vijay Devaraknda. It is releasing on August 22^nd.

When the industry is in a bad shape with multiple flops every week, many superstitions gain credibility. Take the case of Acharya . Megastar Chiranjeevi film bombs and there was a talk that any hero who comes soon after doing a SSR film will give a dud. Ram Charan was a pivotal player in Acharya. Now after disastrous flop or rather a washout of The Warrior, the talk is that no Tamil director has with a Telegu hero given a hit. In fact it has been disasters. The Warrior was directed by Linguswamy and Ram Pothneni was the hero.

Why Liger is seen as a winner? One is that Vijay Devarakonda is a youth hero and director Puri Jagganath is a considered a ` mass’  director. The buzz on this film never died down despite a two year of film making and addition of International boxing champ Tyson added to the hype. Already there is a great expectation for the trailor releasing on July 22^nd. Vijay plays a chaiwallah in Mumbai who goes on to fight Mike Tyson at MMA championship at Las Vegas.

Let’s move to Tamil directors and Telegu heroes. The men who believe in this sentiment that Tamil directors are bad medicine for Telegu heroes, point out a recent flop of Prince Mahesh Babu’s Spyder directed by A R Murugadoss. Vijay Devarakonda’s NOTA directed by Anand Shankar and Nani’s Jenda Pai Kapiraju by Samuthrakanni. All the three heroes were doing excellent at box office till they did these films. Now Ram after Red and I smart was a bankable hero. Banking on Linguswamy, Ram kept Vizag and Nizam areas. All of them have been washouts.

So will Shankar directed RC 15 go the same way or beak the jinx ?..  Shankar did only one non Tamil film and that was remake of Gentleman in Hindi with Anil Kapoor , It was a dud. Dulquar Salman with Sita Raman and  Ravi Teja ( who has a bad run in box office) with Ramarao On Duty and Naga Chaitanaya's Thank You  is coming in a few days. Nobody expects any miracles from them.