Liger' movie review

2022 - 8 - 25

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Liger movie release and review LIVE UPDATES: 'Go for the ... (The Indian Express)

Liger release live updates, August 25 2022: Directed by Puri Jagannadh, Liger stars Vijay Deverakonda, Ananya Panday, Ramya Krishna and Ronit Roy in pivotal ...

Film distributor Akshaye Rathi said, “The movie appeals to the common man of India, the mass audience in Tier 2 and 3 cities that goes to single screens, so it will be big on the current bookings. They haven’t fallen short in promoting the film in all nooks and towns of the country. Liger is releasing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada.

Liger Movie Review: Knock Out Punch For Audience (Greatandhra.com)

Movie: Liger Rating: 2/5. Banner: Puri Connects & Dharma Productions Cast: Vijay Deverakoda, Ananya Panday, Ramya Krishna, Mike Tyson, Ronit Roy, ...

The film and the fights don’t provide a high. The idea of a protagonist with a stammering problem is irritating. The film further goes downhill when the story shifts to Las Vegas. Puri Jagannadh begins this film as an inspirational story of a rise of a champion from a humble background. The Las Vegas sequences and the production values have brought the film a rich look. The film has a Mumbai setting. More than the story, the film doesn’t have a strong conflict or high emotional quotient, or a strong villain, the essential elements for mass movies. The so-called MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fights and sequences, which come one after the other, make a tiresome watch. Let’s find out whether the film lives up to the hype. The combination of director Puri Jagannadh and young sensation Vijay Deverakonda has occupied the media and social media space lately. However, the script doesn’t give him anything to go beyond the surface. But, it turns out to be a wasted effort as “Liger” looks like an exercise with no proper script.

Vijay Deverakonda's 'Liger' roars, albeit without emotion | Movie ... (Onmanorama)

Vijay Deverakonda's 'Liger' revolves around an aspiring MMA champion, whose biggest enemy is stutter.Liger. Vijay Devarakonda. Karan Johar. Charmme Kaur.

'Liger' movie review: Vijay Deverakonda's action drama is all noise ... (The Hindu)

This Puri Jagannadh and Vijay Deverakonda film is a mishmash of sport, action and drama in which nothing makes an impact.

At the start of the film, the protagonist says that he is not good at narrating a story, but he will try. [Mike Tyson](https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/mike-tyson-to-star-in-vijay-deverakondas-liger/article36694213.ece) has its moments, but coming at the fag end of a shoddily-written story, it is too little and too late. Chunky Pandey appears in a brief character that begins as glitzy and fizzles out. Once Liger’s potential in MMA is established, the story introduces the leading lady who is characterised as a dimwit who is both intentionally and unintentionally hilarious, and annoying. Was that Puri’s way of showing the power of women after a string of glam doll characterisations of the leading women in his last few films? Ramya can pack a punch as a courageous mother but she is mostly made to scream and shout. Here the characterisations and storytelling are so banal that it is tough to root for the underdog story. In the opening minutes of Liger, a voiceover describes the title character as a slumdog from the streets of Mumbai who is aiming to win on an international podium. Predictable scenes follow in which Liger is ridiculed by the students of MMA and he has to fight to earn their respect. Some sort of a reveal about Tanya’s true reaction to the mother’s angst comes much later but by then, nothing matters as the film goes on a downward spiral. Hailing from Karimnagar and raising him on her own, she has moved to Mumbai to see him as an MMA national champion; the mother and son make ends meet by managing a tea stall. She goes to the balcony and waves to the crowd in a manner similar to SRK from Mannat.

Liger Review: Vijay Deverakonda's Physique And Acting Chops ... (NDTV)

Cast: Vijay Deverakonda, Mike Tyson, Ananya Panday, Ramya Krishnan, Ronit Roy, Vishu Reddy and Makarand Deshpande. Director: Puri Jagannadh.

She drills into the boy that it is for him to complete his father's unfulfilled dream of become the national champion. If anything, he only drags it down all the way to the level of his own bootlaces. It is massive mess of a movie that Vijay Deverakonda's newfangled physique and action chops cannot salvage. Liger idolizes legendary MMA fighter Mark Anderson (Mike Tyson, in his first Indian movie, has an extended cameo that is cringe-inducing as everything else in Liger), whose portrait hangs on the wall of his modest home. The lady tells her son that everyone in this world has flaws but if he manages to achieve his goal his speech will begin to sound like a song. [Liger](https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/aafat-song-out-vijay-deverakonda-and-ananya-panday-s-electrifying-chemistry-steals-the-show-3230216) centres on a young man who has a severe stammer but is in full flow when he is allowed to express himself with his fists of fury. He puts in a great deal of effort, but the film is way too wobbly to get off the ground and soar. The lead actor is saddled with spectacularly sloppy scenes in which the other actors are required to holler at the top of their voices to make up for the monosyllables that the pugnacious hero utters with a great degree of difficulty. It devises means to sink even deeper into a quagmire of clumsiness in the very next sequence. That is the kind of movie Liger is. This is a Hindi-Telugu bilingual written and directed by Puri Jagannadh, whose Puri Connects banner has bankrolled the film in collaboration with Karan Johar's Dharma Productions. But these are strictly of the kind that the film and the Arjun Reddy star could have done without.

'Liger' movie review: Vijay Deverakonda-starrer a crossbreed ... (The New Indian Express)

'Liger' is about a mother and son, who have come to Mumbai with the ambition of pursuing MMA glory.

We learn nothing about Liger’s own strengths and weaknesses in the MMA arena, except notice that he has a proclivity for showing the middle-finger a lot and also, drawing attention to his crotch during fights. The film’s supposed to be about an underdog “fightaaaaa” winning big at the Mixed Martial Arts, and yet, we learn precious little about the sport—with the fights interpreted as stunt sequences in your average mass film. In one love scene, she asks him to say her name and when he stutters before finishing, she exclaims, “So cute!”—like a zoo visitor observing an exotic animal making a strange noise. I wouldn’t have blamed Liger at all, had he felt justified in interrogating his mother about giving him a name that’s likely to scar him for life… "Liger", the film, is about a mother and son, who have come to Mumbai with the ambition of pursuing MMA glory. Perhaps because she’s modelled after a wild animal, she’s shown to scream a lot, under the name of ferocity.