Rumours On Vijay Deverakonda & Puri Not True

Ever since Puri Jagannadh and Vijay Deverakonda joined forces for Fighter, it created a lot of attention inside and outside film industry. Since this collaboration is after Puri’s blockbuster success of iSmart Shankar, naturally, there are a lot of curiosity.

However, there are also several rumours which circulated the project. While a section of rumours have it that Vijay would play a Boxer in Puri’s Fighter, it is buzzed that the film would be on the lines of Puri and Ravi Teja’s yesteryear superhit Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi.

Meanwhile, Varun Tej is also doing a Boxer role and his film is said to be titled as Boxer. With this, rumours have it that the stories of both Varun’s Boxer and Puri’s Fighter have resemblance.

Now, it is reliably learnt that Puri’s Fighter is no match to either Varun Tej’s Boxer or Puri’s own previous film Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi. It is learnt that Vijay Deverakonda is not at all a boxer in Puri’s Fighter. Apparently, Vijay Deverakonda is playing as a Mixed Martial Arts experts and hence he was trained in Thailand. VD undergone an intense training in Martial Arts. Puri said to have written an interesting script which excited Vijay.

Since this marks Vijay’s Bollywood debut, VD is very conscious about the film. Meanwhile, Karan Johar who is presenting the film in Hindi is also quite impressed with Puri’s script. So, all the rumours that are in circulation on Puri and Vijay’s Fighter are not true.