Ananya Panday has certainly come a long way! However, her film Liger, which saw her starring alongside Vijay Deverakonda in the sports action drama, failed to make an impact on the audience. The film turned out to be a massive box-office dud and it only managed to collect around Rs 20 crore, as per Bollywood Hungama.
Well, that film unquestionably added a nasty mark on Ms Panday’s career report!
Interestingly, the film also saw her Ananya Panday’s father and actor Chunky Panday, who also played a short cameo role in the Puri Jagannadh directorial, has now reacted to Liger’s box office disaster.
During a recent conversation with Today.in, he said, "It is with any film. An actor gives 100 per cent to the film, you promote it, and if things go wrong, you feel devastated obviously. But you have to live with it and you move on. It is a tricky business and I think Ananya is aware of this. These are things that happen."
"What you expect to be 100 per cent might not be that and what you thought to be zero can be 100 per cent, that is what showbiz is about. Never underestimate or overestimate anything. Liger was a film, it was a multi-language film, which was promoted very well too and had great music. The outcome of the film: There are almost 400 people working on it. As actors, you only see portions of it, you don’t know what is happening. So, we never know what the end result will be. You must take it the way it comes. You have to move on", he concluded.
Apart from the two leads, Liger marked the Indian cinema debut of former American professional boxer Mike Tyson.
The film also saw Ramya Krishnan, Ronit Roy, and Makarand Deshpande, playing the pivotal roles in the film bankrolled by Puri Jagannadh and Charmme Kaur under their banner Puri Connects and Karan Johar under his company Dharma Productions.