Vijay
Deverakonda’s
recent
release
Liger
has
met
with
an
unprecedented
failure
and
people
have
started
analyzing
his
career
already.
A
Twitter
handle
by
the
name
DailyCultureYT
made
an
interesting
comparison.
Their
Tweet
pointed
out
that
Vijay’s
pan-India
releases
starting
from
Dear
Comrade,
followed
by
World
Famous
Lover,
and
now
Liger
have
all
been
commercially
unsuccessful,
and
his
Telugu
language
releases
including
Pelli
Choopulu,
Arjun
Reddy,
Geetha
Govindham,
and
Taxiwaala,
have
commercially
done
well.
Whether
Dear
Comrade
and
World
Famous
Lover
were
pan-India
releases
is
debatable,
as
the
definition
of
a
pan-India
release
is
quite
vague,
but
let’s
put
that
aside
and
look
into
the
comparison.
The
Tweet
makes
a
subtle
indication
that
maybe
Vijay
has
not
gotten
his
pan-India
game
right,
and
is
missing
something.
While
the
facts
definitely
indicate
a
clear
bifurcation,
this
probably
is
not
the
right
way
to
look
at
it,
and
here
is
why.
Although
Dear
Comrade,
World
Famous
Lover,
and
Liger
are
all
Pan-India
releases,
they
don’t
have
much
in
common
between
them.
All
three
projects
have
their
own
unique
identities
and
they
failed
for
multiple
and
varying
reasons.
And
most
of
all,
mentioning
Dear
Comrade
alongside
the
other
two
films
hurts
a
little,
no
offense.
Liger‘s
failure
was
primarily
due
to
bad
writing
and
plastic
characters.
While
the
titular
character
was
not
so
plastic,
he
got
very
little
support
from
the
rest
of
the
characters
in
terms
of
creating
a
connection.
World
Famous
Lover
was
a
decent
film
technically.
However,
the
plot
and
emotional
politics
in
the
film
were
disturbing
to
many,
and
it
was
not
exceptional
enough
to
break
through
that
barrier.
Not
suggesting
that
it
was
great
technically,
but
it
was
probably
better
than
Liger.
Dear
Comrade
failed
for
reasons
that
are
not
clear
to
me.
The
film
was
well
written
and
well
acted,
and
although
it
was
not
flawless,
it
was
a
pretty
great
film,
with
exceptional
music.
It
doesn’t
even
deserve
to
be
discussed
in
this
list.
It
deserved
better.
But
these
three
films
do
have
something
else
in
common,
and
that
one
thing
can
also
be
found
in
Arjun
Reddy.
A
fierce
and
angry
male
lead
finds
it
difficult
to
adjust
to
the
world
and
its
ways
and
struggles
to
have
smooth
relationships.
While
this
definitely
worked
well
in
Arjun
Reddy
and
was
relatable
enough
in
Dear
Comrade,
maybe
it’s
getting
a
little
too
familiar
and
uninteresting
to
the
audience.
One
can
never
really
point
out
why
something
works
or
doesn’t
work
in
a
film,
but
educated
guesses
can
always
be
made
with
some
amount
of
logic
and
information.
As
Virginia
Woolf
wrote
in
her
book
A
Room
Of
One’s
Own,
“When
a
subject
is
controversial
one
cannot
hope
to
tell
the
truth.
One
can
only
show
how
one
came
to
hold
whatever
opinion
one
does
hold.”
