Nov 21, 2024 19:58 IST
First revealed on: Nov 21, 2024 at 19:58 IST
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When the teaser of the much-awaited Netflix documentary Nayanthara: Past the Fairy Story launched earlier this month, it featured a clip of producer-actor Rana Daggubati describing actor Nayanthara as “a warrior” and saying, “She walked in as a thug and stayed a thug”. In thus describing his Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum (2012) co-actor, Daggubati is lauding her endurance in addition to her skill to navigate the ups and downs of a profession in cinema. That her tenacity and refusal to simply accept setbacks would quickly be revealed to the bigger world was hardly anticipated.
On November 16, Nayanthara posted a three-page “open letter” on her Instagram account, addressed to her colleague Dhanush Ok Raja. The letter known as out the actor-producer for “festering vengeance” in opposition to the documentary, her companion (Vignesh Shivan) and her. Nayanthara was reacting to a authorized discover from Dhanush demanding Rs 10 crore for using a three-second behind the scenes (BTS) clip from the units of Naanum Rowdy Dhaan (2015) within the Netflix documentary. Dhanush had produced the movie, which was directed by Shivan. Within the letter, Nayanthara wrote that after “battling it out” with Dhanush for an NOC (No Objection Certificates) and for his permission to make use of Naanum Rowdy Dhaan’s “songs or visible cuts, even the images” for the documentary, they lastly re-edited and settled for the present model.
Such a public confrontation with one of the crucial highly effective movie personalities of India is uncommon if not unprecedented. Nayanthara, whose 20-year-long profession spans Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam movies, could also be known as “Girl Celebrity” and “Thalaivi” (Tamil for lady chief), however Indian movie industries have remained stubbornly male-dominated. By pushing again, Nayanthara proves that when director Vishnuvardhan says within the documentary, “Nayan continues to be Nayan as a result of there may be nothing that may intimidate her. Whoever it’s,” it isn’t mere hyperbole. As if to underline her refusal to again down in her defiance, on November 20, Nayanthara posted a listing of producers, together with Shah Rukh Khan, A R Murugadoss, Chiranjeevi and Ram Charan Teja, expressing her “gratitude” for granting her NOCs.
The documentary, which guarantees to “discover a never-before-seen facet” of an actor who is understood for protecting her life personal, began streaming on November 18 midnight to mark her fortieth birthday. Hours later, got here the teaser of Rakkayie, an upcoming Tamil-language interval drama, that exhibits a lone Nayanthara, armed with sickles and chilli powder, taking over a gaggle of baddies.
The primary half of Nayanthara: Past the Fairy Story establishes Nayanthara’s star energy and recounts her tumultuous journey as an actor. Born Diana Mariam Kurian, the actor was noticed by director Sathyan Anthikkad in a jewelry commercial revealed in {a magazine}. He forged her within the Malayalam-language Manassinakkare (2003). Barely 18, she was pursuing a level in English literature in a Thiruvalla school then. Following this, she shared display house with Mohanlal in Natturajavu (2004) and Vismayathumbathu (2004). She branched out to Tamil and Telugu movies quickly after, grabbing consideration with Chandramukhi (2005) and A R Murugadoss’ Ghajini (2005).
Nayanthara’s ascent as a famous person began together with her success in Tamil cinema, particularly boosted by the Vishnuvardhan-directed gangster movie Billa (2007). After being fat-shamed for her look in an “merchandise” track in Ghajini, she took viewers abruptly together with her glamorous flip in Billa, the place she performs a personality with gray shades and seems in a bikini. Together with her compelling portrayal of Sita in Sri Rama Rajyam (2011), amid criticism and doubt expressed over her casting, she went on to develop her fanbase. She performed the protagonist in Nelson Dilipkumar-directed Kolamaavu Kokila (2018) and the lead in thriller Imaikkaa Nodigal. Each have been massive hits and registered spectacular opening figures cementing her superstardom. In 2023, with Shah Rukh Khan-starer Jawan (2023), Nayanthara gained pan-Indian appreciation as NSG officer Narmada Rai whose slo-mo entry scenes underlined her star energy.
In Past the Fairytale, numerous colleagues chime in on how Nayanthara got here to carry the place she does. Actor Radhika Sarathkumar describes with awe, her skill to command the eye of viewers, whereas Parvathy, talking of her stardom, says, “She (Nayanthara) did all that at a time when it was akin to witchcraft”. Director Nelson believes that “women-centric movies also needs to have industrial worth too”, one thing that Nayanthara was capable of do. She managed to command consideration even when sharing display house with main male stars like Rajinikanth and Nagarjuna Akkineni. However then, as Tamannaah Bhatia sums up: “To interrupt the sample, it’s important to be a part of the sample.”
All this discuss of her star energy would come throughout as mere vox pop in service of her house manufacturing, had it not been for Nayathara’s social media showdown with Dhanush. The main target of viewers would possibly properly have been on the story of her discovering love with a fellow foodie and their dreamy marriage ceremony, as depicted within the documentary. What her public clapback, nevertheless, makes clear is the darker facet in each fairy story, of struggling to search out and maintain one’s house in a male-dominated business, and that the “Girl Celebrity” stays greater than able to coping with it.
