Ananya Panday was not okay saying ‘a lot of things’ in Liger: ‘It is my duty and responsibility as a woman to…’

Produced on a hefty budget of over Rs 100 crore, the film only managed to earn Rs 56.18 crore worldwide, as reported by industry tracker Sacnilk, making it a major disaster. The film received major criticism not only for its poor execution and a lack of freshness in its narrative but also for its misogynistic tones.

Recently, Ananya Panday opened up about the movie, stating that she had told the filmmakers she was not “okay” with saying a lot of the things her character says in the film. “The way we are exposed to things now, where you feel like it’s on your phone but its also so much more… I don’t know how to label it. It’s bad out there. Being a young, Gen-Z person the only thing I can do is use my voice for what is important. I feel like everyone needs to stand for something, you don’t need to stand for everything but you can stand for something. That’s what I try to do. Personally, for me, women’s safety and the state of that in our country is very important to speak about and I do voice my opinion a lot,” she said during a chat with Sucharita Tyagi.

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“Whenever I am reading a script I have this red flag thing going on in my mind like, ‘No Gen-Z person speaks like this.’ This is not okay. It is my duty and responsibility as a woman to be that face and say this is not correct. If I say that people are going to think that it is okay. For example, in Liger, there were a lot of things in that script where I was like, ‘Listen I am not okay saying this. As a woman, this is not correct.’ They actually did make those changes and I am really happy that I did voice my opinion at that time,” she added.

Call Me Bae is set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on Friday (September 6). In addition to Ananya Panday, the series also features Vir Das, Gurfateh Pirzada, Varun Sood and Vihaan Samat in key roles. The eight-part show, created by Ishita Moitra, is directed by Colin D’Cunha.