Nayanthara is celebrating her 40th birthday today. On the occasion of her birthday, the Netflix original Nayanthara: Beyond The Fairy Tale will be released today. Ahead of the release of her documentary, Vignesh Shivan wished her in the most adorable way. Vignesh shared the opening credit of the show on his Instagram stories and he wrote, “Happy Birthday my uyir (love and kiss emojis). My respect for you is million times more than the love I have for you! For who you are my thangamey!” Re-sharing the story on her Instagram, Nayanthara replied, “I love you” and dropped a kiss and a heart emoji.
Ahead of the release of Nayanthara’s show on Netflix, it enmeshed in legal trouble. The producers of the project have been served a copyright claim for ₹10 crore from actor-producer Dhanush. The reason for the claim is a 3-second clip from Nayanthara’s film Naanum Rowdy Dhaan, which was produced by Dhanush, that appears in the docuseries trailer. Nayanthara responded to the lawsuit by sharing an open letter, addressed to Dhanush, on her Instagram feed.
An excerpt from Nayanthara’s letter read, “After two long years of battling it out with you for an NOC (No Objection Certificate) and waiting for your approval for our Netflix documentary release, we finally decided to give up, re-edit and settle for the current version since you declined to permit the usage of Naanum Rowdy Dhaan songs or visual cuts, even the photographs to say the least despite multiple requests.”
Nayanthara also highlighted how this was “an all-time low” for Dhanush. The actress added, “What’s even more shocking is your legal notice after the release of the trailer of the Netflix Documentary. We were startled to read those lines wherein you questioned the usage of some videos (just 3 seconds) which were shot in our personal devices and that too BTS visuals that are already very much publicly present on social media and claimed a sum of Rs.10 crores as damages for the mere 3 seconds. This is an all time low from you and speaks so much about your character. I wish you were half the person you portray to be on stage in audio launches in front of your innocent fans but clearly you do not practice what you preach, at least not for me and my partner.” Take a look:
Nayanthara and Vignesh got married in June 2022. The couple are parents to twins – Uyir and Ulag.