Bengali actor Malobika Banerjee recalled an incident with Vijay Deverkonda when they shot for the music video Nee Venakale Nadichi a few years back. The Bengali actor-singer said that while they were filming the video, Vijay was famous after his hit film Arjun Reddy (2017). Calling him a ‘very professional actor and good at his job,’ Malobika said that Vijay told her that he did not understand Hindi and started speaking in Telugu on the sets.
In a new interview, Malobika said that she was surprised to see the teaser of Vijay’s debut Hindi film Liger. It was released in August. She was surprised to see the teaser after the actor laughed at her and mocked her for speaking in Hindi while they were shooting together. She recalled Vijay saying that Hindi was ‘like Hebrew.’
She told, “When he was shooting with me, he didn’t know how to speak Hindi and I prefer to speak in that language mostly while working. So, I was trying to communicate with Vijay in Hindi while shooting and he was laughing and mocking me saying that he doesn’t understand the language and it is like Hebrew. He started talking in Telugu in front of me. Then I saw Liger’s teaser and I was surprised that after mocking the language, he is doing a film in Hindi! (laughs) Having said that, he is a nice person and very professional.”
She further added, “When the promotions of the film were going on, I wanted to tell people about how he was mocking Hindi and now is doing a Hindi film but he is my good friend so I didn’t do it. But I messaged him saying ‘Welcome to Bollywood’ and also shared the poster of Liger. Then I found out that he doesn’t have that many Hindi dialogues in the film.”