Vijay Devarkonda’s Liger bagged triple disaster for director Puri Jagannath. Therefore leaving buyers and exhibitors with huge losses. Hence it is heard that buyers and exhibitors demanded refunding their losses immediately.
Reacting to this , director Puri Jagan has shared a WhatsApp voice message, which was now leaked to the public by some perpetrators and is going viral on social media.
In the audio leaked, Puri Jagganath said, “Are you blackmailing me? I need not give back money to anyone, but still, I am returning it to ethical concerns. Even after I have promised to give back a certain amount in a month if they do these kinds of overactions, I’ll not like to return the money promised. I am just paying the money for the sake of prestige, but otherwise I’m not liable to pay back a single penny’ articulated Puri Jagan in his voice message”.
Later, talking about his previous hits, he added, “When a film turns out to be a blockbuster, I’ll have to work hard to collect the money from these so-called buyers. From Pokiri to Ismart Shankar, there is a lot of money I should get from buyers, will the Buyers Association collect it back for me? Every buyer and exhibitor is a rich guy here and my film is bought by top distributors and producers who wouldn’t come to roads if at all a flop hits them hard’ he says, asking them to stop all this blackmail drama”.
“I am getting frustrated dealing with all these dishonest buyers who cheat with box office figures. Liger’s North India buyer Anil Thadani always presents us with real figures collected from the box office which are actually more than what we expect and that’s why we feel like sitting with him to talk. But if we look at our buyers, we feel disgusted” he further stated.
Finally he added, ‘If at all they do Dharna, I’ll take the list of buyers who sat in the Dharna, and will pay everyone excluding them’.
With this audio on YouTube, we have to wait and see, how the Netizens as well as buyers and distributors will react.