Nayanthara on Saturday, stunned everyone with his open letter dedicated to Dhanush, call the latter for not letting her use footage from their film Naanum Rowdy Dhaan for her upcoming Netflix India documentary, Nayanthara: Beyond the Fairy Tale. Several of Dhanush’s former co-stars came together to extend their support to Nayanthara on social media. (Also read: After Nayanthara’s scathing letter for Dhanush, her husband Vignesh Shivan mocks her speech on ‘spread love’)

Dhanush’s former co-stars unite

Parvathy Thiruvothu, Dhanush’s co-star in Bharat Bala’s 2013 film Maryan, reposted Nayanthara’s open letter on her Instagram stories with namaste emojis, which Nayanthara later reposted on her Instagram stories. Anupama Parmeswaran, who shared screen space with Dhanush in RS Durai Senthilkumar’s political action drama Kodi in 2016, ‘liked’ Nayanthara’s post.

Other actors who liked the actors’ post included Nazriya Fahadh (Dhanush’s co-star in R Velraj’s 2013 romantic comedy Naiyaandi), Aishwarya Lekshmi (his co-star in Karthik Subbaraj’s action thriller in 2021, Jagame Thandhiram) and Gouri G Kishan (Dhanush’s co-star). -star of Mari Selvaraj’s 2021 action film, Karnan).

Nayanthara’s open letter against Dhanush

In the open letter, Nayanthara accused Dhanush of harboring a personal grudge against her and her husband, filmmaker Vignesh Shivan. She said this was a “weak” approach to demand. ₹10 crore from them for using a three-second clip of Naanum Rowdy Dhaan songs.

Part of the letter read: “A well-established actor like you, with the support and blessings of your father and brother, an ace director, must read and understand this. Cinema, as we all know, is a fight for survival for people like me: a self-taught woman with no ties to the industry and someone who had to struggle to get to the position I have today. I owe it to my work ethic which is no secret to anyone who knows me but, more importantly, to the goodwill of the audience and my film fraternity.

For the uninitiated, the film Naanum Rowdy Dhaan starred Nayanthara opposite Vijay Sethupathi. It was directed by Vignesh Shivan. Dhanush backed the film under the banner Wunderbar Films in 2015.