Nayanthara recently opened up about not posting anything regarding her husband and filmmaker Vignesh Shivan. She said that every time she puts up an Instagram story or talks something about her spouse then she gets criticism for ‘praising him’ on social media. The South superstar also mentioned that some comments are ‘really bad ones’. Due to this, they stopped posting about each other online. She asserted that she really wants to appreciate her husband but she cannot due to the hatred they receive online. 

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter India, Nayanthara said “Everything that's good in my life right now is his vision. But if I start giving credit to him now in your interview, the only comments you're going to see, the bad comments at the top are going to be, ‘Oh my god! She’s started praising her husband.' Now, we've reached a point where I really can't say something nice about my husband. I have reached a point when I can't put an Insta Story – well, obviously I wouldn't put it when he's sitting next to me, I'd put it when I really miss him, or when he's done something really beautiful and I want to share that with the world, with people – but when I do that, there are so many comments coming in saying, ‘Oh my god! Do they deserve this?’ There are some really bad ones. So we've stopped doing it. I want to give him the due credit, but I'm not even able to. But someday, it'll happen.” 

She further added, “Obviously, he started off much later than me. I'm a senior in the industry. I started off when I was 18 and he became a director when he was 21. Which is a great thing! At 21, you're usually an assistant director with someone. He's so smart, intelligent, you ask him anything under the sun, he has all the answers. He's humorous, he makes me laugh. He takes care of me, he's a family man. The hatred, I'd say, comes from the fact that maybe he's not given back-to-back blockbusters or maybe because the films he's done, there are huge gaps between them. Maybe because I'm already successful, I'm already an established name. And he's doing that for himself. I always feel it's so unfair to compare me and him. Because we're two individuals. Would you do the same thing if the genders were reversed?”