Vijay Deverakonda’s much anticipated Pan-Indian film Liger was released in theatres on August 25th. It opened to disastrous reviews and tanked at the box office. The film has been unanimously deemed a disaster and has also been subject to a lot of trolling.
There are a lot of mistakes that led up to the downfall of Liger. The first mistake was Vijay Deverakonda not looking at the script of the film. The second mistake was Puri Jagannadh not writing any script and the third mistake was converting it into a movie.
But perhaps, there is a greater mistake than all these mistakes. The biggest and also the costliest mistake of Liger is roping in Mike Tyson to play an extended cameo. It cost the team more than 25 crores to bring in Mike Tyson to play a role in the film. The producers had to break the bank to get him in the movie.
This would be understandable if Mike Tyson played a crucial role in the film but he adds no value to the proceedings. In fact, his sequence in the film looked unintentionally funny and made the audiences cringe in their seats.
This was a huge blunder from the team as Mike Tyson did not attract audiences to the theatres. Mike Tyson is undeniably a legend in the boxing world but in the world of Tollywood, no one cares about Mike Tyson’s presence in Liger.
Instead of spending huge bucks on Mike, they could have roped in some superstars from other industries which would have helped in filling more seats. Because of Mike, the budget for the film was increased and not a single penny has been recovered from those 25 crores.
