Actor-singer Malobika Banerjee recalls how Vijay Deverakonda mocked her for speaking in Hindi

In 2018, Tollywood star Vijay Deverakonda appeared in a music video titled 'Nee Venakale Nadichi.' Malobika Banerjee, Vijay’s co-star in the music video, reminisced her first filming experience with Vijay in Goa. During an interview, she recalls how Vijay laughed at her and mocked her for speaking in Hindi, while they were on the sets. For the unversed, Vijay starred in this music video after the blockbuster success of 'Arjun Reddy.'
Malobika told News 18: ''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! He was telling me that Hindi ‘is like Hebrew’. Having said that, he is a nice person and very professional.''
Malobika Banerjee wanted to tell people how he was mocking her for speaking in Hindi before the release of his Bollywood debut 'Liger.' In the same interview, she revealed why she didn’t do it.
She said: ''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 really doesn’t have that many Hindi dialogues in the film.''
Vijay Deverakonda was last seen playing a homegrown MMA fighter in 'Liger', which also stars Ananya Pandey. Directed by Puri Jagannadh, the sport action-drama received a lukewarm response at the box-office.