It is surreal however each actor, who is fiercely guarded astir their backstage lives, was erstwhile an unfastened publication for each to read. Today’s celebrities recognize the powerfulness of societal media, and cognize to utilise it to further their image, and enactment astir imaginable risks. However, it wasn’t the lawsuit with celebrities who were contiguous successful the mid 2000s. They were candid with their responses. They didn’t fell their relationships. They allowed the communicative to not beryllium successful their hands. They lived betwixt the arclights and the spotlight. Nayanthara was 1 specified actor, who had some these lights shining connected her arsenic agleam arsenic possible. Right from her modulation from Malayalam cinema to Tamil and Telugu films, Nayanthara became a occurrence communicative that was ever the speech of the town.
Nayanthara’s narration with Silambarasan TR
In the precocious released Netflix documentary, Nayanthara: Beyond the Fairytale, the histrion opened up astir her past relationships, the learnings from it, and the toll it took connected her earlier uncovering her bid successful her husband, filmmaker Vignesh Shivan. “My archetypal narration was purely based connected trust. The spot that the different idiosyncratic is successful emotion with you,” said Nayanthara successful the documentary without taking immoderate names. Her archetypal narration aft entering cinema was with actor-filmmaker Silambarasan TR.
They worked unneurotic successful Silambarasan’s debut directorial, Vallavan, and made headlines with the quality of them being together. In galore ways, they were the ‘It couple’ of that era. Both young and primed to determination up the ladder successful Tamil cinema, and it was thing that wasn’t seen successful the manufacture for a agelong time. Vallavan excessively marked the archetypal clip Nayanthara kissed onscreen, and a peculiar ‘glamorous’ poster became a talking constituent for rather immoderate time.
Silambarasan and Nayanthara from Vallavan
However, a leaked representation of them kissing each different offscreen, which became nationalist without her consent became a constituent of contention. The narration didn’t past long, and some moved on, albeit successful not truthful amicable terms. In fact, successful the documentary, Nagarjuna, who was shooting for Boss with Nayanthara astatine that time, said, “I deliberation it was a turbulent clip of her relationship. In fact, we would dread the infinitesimal her telephone rang due to the fact that it would crook her disconnected immediately. She became a antithetic person.”
Post this relationship, Nayanthara moved connected by burying herself successful work. She acted successful arsenic galore arsenic 10 films successful the adjacent mates of years. She balanced films successful Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam. It is past she began her most-publicised relationship.
Nayanthara’s narration with Prabhu Deva
In 2008, Nayanthara was signed connected for Villu, which marked her maiden collaboration with Vijay arsenic a heroine, and her archetypal movie successful actor-choreographer-filmmaker Prabhu Deva’s direction. Having developed communal feelings for each other, it was speculated that they were going to get joined successful 2009. But determination was a catch. Prabhu Deva was inactive joined to Latha, and not lone didn’t she o.k. of this relationship, she adjacent went nationalist with her disagreement.
Vijay, Prabhu Deva and Nayanthara from Villu
Even arsenic Prabhu Deva openly announced that helium was so going to wed Nayanthara aft splitting up from his wife, the Billa histrion maintained a stoic soundlessness and went astir with her work. Once again, erstwhile the unit astir her was high, she went connected to immerse herself successful her acting career, and starred successful 9 films implicit the span of 2 years successful Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada. There were speculations that they were yet going to necktie the knot successful 2011, and the Telugu film, Sri Rama Rajyam, was billed to beryllium her past film. It was said that she was quitting acting aft her impending wedding.
Although Nayanthara won her archetypal Nandi Award for Sri Rama Rajyam, it was thing but creaseless sailing. There were sections of the assemblage who criticised the makers for choosing Nayanthara to play the relation of Sita. They argued that Nayanthara’s idiosyncratic choices didn’t augur good for an histrion who was going to play the relation of the goddess. Even though Nayanthara offered to measurement down from the Balakrishna-starrer, helmed by legendary filmmaker Bapu, the makers lent her unequivocal support. The representation of the past time of sprout wherever she is showered with angiosperm petals became an iconic infinitesimal successful Nayanthara’s career. During a pre-release event, legendary manager Dasari Narayana Rao asked Nayanthara to reconsider her determination to discontinue films aft Sri Rama Rajyam. “Don’t bash that,” helium said.
‘It was the antheral who told maine to discontinue cinema’: Nayanthara
However, Latha’s persistence to not assistance a divorcement to Prabhu Deva was a large obstacle, and owed to undisclosed reasons aft this development, Nayanthara and him called it quits successful a narration that pushed her to an aboriginal retirement. “It was the antheral who told maine to discontinue cinema,” said Nayanthara successful the documentary, referring to Prabhu Deva. “It wasn’t similar I had an option. I was told to permission cinema, and I agreed.”
Speaking astir her past relationships, Nayanthara said, “Just due to the fact that I ne'er openly addressed my past, radical started penning their ain stories. And, each of them were beauteous bad.” Reminiscing connected those times, she remarked, “They started assuming the worst. How travel nary of the boys were asked anything? Why was I the lone 1 questioned? I deliberation I conscionable trusted radical precise easily.”
‘When everyone thought I was done, Nagarjuna called me’
Nayanthara was disturbed from her ‘retirement’ stupor by a telephone telephone from Nagarjuna. “When everyone thought I was done, helium called maine with an offer,” said the Darbar actor. “Something told maine she was ready,” said Nagarjuna. In fact, Sathyan Anthikkad, who launched Nayanthara successful films with the 2003 superhit, Manasinnakare said, “One day, aft the two-year break, she conscionable called me. We spoke for astir 4-5 hours that day. At immoderate point, you conscionable request idiosyncratic to perceive to. It wasn’t astir my proposal oregon anything. She conscionable needed to speech to idiosyncratic who knew her from the beginning. It defined her erstwhile she decided to travel back.”
Nayanthara successful stills from Manasinnakare and Raja Rani
After the interruption successful 2011 and 2012, Nayanthara came backmost with a mission. As always, she immersed herself successful work. Starting disconnected with Atlee’s Raja Rani, she did 13 films implicit 2013, 2014, and 2015 successful Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam.
Then, towards the extremity of 2015, she starred successful a movie called Naanum Rowdy Dhaan, which was backed by Dhanush, and directed by a one-film-old manager called Vignesh Shivan.
And arsenic they say… Rest is history.