After Liger proved to me a financial disaster for the film distributors who put in big money to buy its right, director Puri Jagannadh promised to compensate the poor distributors.
However his promise has not been kept so far.Now the distributors apparently plan to lay siege to Puri’s office in Hyderabad.
“Puri probably thought the whole demand for compensation would blow over. He didn’t see the distributors’ determination to get at least partly compensated,” a source from Hyderabad tells me.
Let’s see who blinks first.
Far more interesting than the film are the behind-the-scenes shenanigans pertaining to Puri Jagannadh’s catastrophic Liger. Since the release and the film’s historic failure, many simmering layers of discontent and ensuing fall-outs have been exposed.
While Karan Johar who had no financial stakes in the dud project has cleverly disconnected himself from the Liger setback, the film’s leading man Vijay Deverakonda has also dissociated himself completely from Liger and its team: Vijay’s on-the-floors second Telugu project Janaganamana with Puri has allegedly been called off.
Producers Puri Jagannadh and Charmee Kaur now stand as the Liger distributors’ only go-to saviours. While there has been no official statement from the producers on any compensation for the distributors , some of whom have lost money to the brink of bankruptcy, there were some reports on how Puri intended to compensate disgruntled distributors.
