Confirmed: It’s Ananya Pandey With Vijay Deverakonda In Fighter

A lot is being  written, seen and shared about Telugu superstar  Vijay Deverakonda’s Bollywooddebut in Fighter ,a  Hindi-Telugu bi-lingual being directed  by Puri Jagannath,  co-produced by Karan Johar, Puri Jagannath and  Charmee Kaur.

Since it’s Vijay’s first full-on action film, he has been training non-stop for it,losing weight  and preparing to take  off his shirt on  camera.

Having said  all of this, we  still had no confirmation  of who  Vijay’s  leading lady would be in  Fighter.

Now it can be  told.It’s Ananya Pandey, Karan  Johar’s  blue-eyed girl after Alia Bhatt.  Coincidentally Alia  too  is making her Telugu debut this year(in Rajamouli’s RRR).In both  Puriand Rajamouli’s projects  it was Karan Johar who  was instrumental  in getting his protegee’s on board.

A  source very close to Karan Johar informs me that  Karan’s  other  blue-eyed girl Janhvi Kapoorwas being seriously considered.

“But Janhvi couldn’t adjust her dates, though she  seriously wanted to be  part  of  the   film. It was then that Karan  asked Ananya Pandey (who made her  debut in Johar’s Student  Of  The Year). And she readily agreed,” says  the  source.

 Like Janhvi, Ananya is  a  big Vijay Deverakonda fan. The two did a fun photoshoot together and are  now  getting ready for the  first schedule   of  the film.S