In 2013, when Rohit Shetty’s film ‘Chennai Express’ was being made. In the film’s story, Shahrukh gets trapped in a village of Tamil Nadu. Rohit Shetty wanted an actress from South side. This requirement was not for Deepika’s role. At that time the producer and director of ‘Chennai Express’ wanted Nayanthara for only one item song.
But at that time Nayanthara refused to do this item song. According to a report, Nayantara did not want to work in this film just for one song. Later, in her place, another famous South actress Priyamani was finalized for this item song. That song was from the movie Chennai Express – ‘One Two Three Four’.
Whatever may have been the reason for Nayanthara not being able to work with Shahrukh at that time. It has been 10 years now. Nayantara is in the lead role in Shahrukh Khan’s new film ‘Jawaan’ in 2023, not just in a song or supporting role, but Nayanthara’s character is exactly equal to Shahrukh in this film.
After the release of Chennai Express, a lot has changed in Nayanthara’s film career and personal life. She has also had to change her name. She came to act in only one film and now she is sitting on the throne of the industry, she is on top now.
She has done superhit films with all the superstars of South, Mohanlal, Chiranjeevi, Rajinikanth and many other superstars like them. Despite being a heroine of commercial films, Nayantara has also played the iconic character of ‘Mata Sita’ and she had to take a break from her film career due to some reasons. In front of Nayanthara’s name, now the tag of ‘Lady Superstar’ has also been attached.
In fact, Nayanthara is not replaceable. After ruling the south film industries, now she is ready to debut in Hindi film industries.
In our new story, we will know everything you want to know about Nayanthara’s film career, personal life, controversies, husband and family life.
Jawan’s Movie Actrees Nayanthara Biography
Diana Mariam Kurien was born on 18 November 1984 in a Christian family in Bangalore. Yes, this is Nayantara’s real name. We will know later in the story how her name was changed. Her father was in the Air Force. Because of which it was not possible for his family to survive in any single city.
Diana benefited a lot from living and traveling in different cities. Her hold on different cultures and languages kept getting stronger. Schooling was also completed in different cities. When the time came for her college studies, his father had retired from his Air Force job.
Her entire family shifted to Thiruvalla, Kerala. Diana took admission in Mar Thoma College there and started studying English Literature. She used to be a front bench student in her class. In the very first year of college, she encountered the modeling industry. After this, as an amateur, she did photoshoots and modeling for local magazines and brands. She was an intelligent student, so along with college studies and modeling, she also started preparation for CA. She said in many interviews that if she was not an actress today, she would definitely have become a capable CA.
During second year of graduation, film director Satyan was planning a new film. He was looking for a new face. Due to a coincidence, an assistant of Satyan brought a copy of Vanitha magazine. Between breaks from shooting Satyan were turning the pages of Vanitha. He eyes went to an advertisement.
It was a jewelry advertisement. Sathyan found the girl appearing in the ad interesting and had already got the heroine for the film. Somehow the team of Satyan finds Diana. Satyan offered Diana a film named Manassinakkare. Actor Jairam was in the lead role. Diana believed at that time that she was not a good actress. At that time Nayanthara was about to say goodbye to the film industry by doing just one film.
The shooting of the film started. Director Satyan said that Diana used to sit next to him in a chair after every shot and started learning the nuances of direction and acting. Meanwhile one day during the shooting, Satyan was going to their home. On the way, he saw a poster of an adult film.
Name of the film was ‘Diana’. Satyan felt that this name would harm his film. His thinking was that the name of the heroine of the film should not be associated with the name of any adult film. That’s why now they have to change the name of the heroine.
Then 3 names were written on the slip to change the name. Diana was going to get recognition in future from only one of the three names written in these slips. One name has been finalized. Means the one with eyes like stars i.e. Nayanthara.
Even before the shooting of the first film was over, Nayanthara was cast by director-producer Fazil. Let us tell you that he is the father of veteran actor Fahadh Faasil of Indian cinema. Fazil produced a film named Vismayathumbathu with Nayanthara.
Superstar Mohanlal was in front of Nayantara in her second film. Nayantara came into this industry to act in only one film. But luckily both of her films became super hits at the box office. Naaturajavu, which came after these two superhit films, completed his hat-trick of hits in Malayalam cinema.
After 3 Malayalam hit films, Nayanthara started getting offers from the Tamil film industry as well. Her debut film in Tamil cinema was Aiyyaa. After this, Rajinikanth’s film ‘Chandramukhi’ was offered to her. A big film comes in the career of every actor and actress, after which they do not have to look back. ‘Chandramukhi’ was one such film in Nayanthara’s film career.
Due to the star power of Rajinikanth, ‘Chandramukhi’ ran continuously in theaters for 800 days. Then came another big film of Nayanthara which was also made in Hindi with Aamir Khan. Nayanthara now says that doing that film was the biggest mistake of her life. That film was ‘Ghajini’. Nayantara had said in an interview-
“The role I got for Ghajini when it was narrated was not the same during filming.” The plot of that picture altered totally as soon as it was completed. I felt tricked. Following this occurrence, I resolved to properly read the script before signing the picture.
Nayanthara’s role in the film was unimportant. Above all, the song X Machi finished the job. According to media sources, Nayanthara was not at ease when filming that song.
Nayanthara’s image had become typical in Tamil cinema. At that time there was a need to change that image of Nayantara. Her roles were either to increase the glamor value of the film or of the heroine in trouble.
Yaaradi Nee Mohini and Billa were such films. After establishing her feet in Malayalam and Tamil cinema, Nayanthara turned to the Telugu film industry.
In Telugu film industry, she acted in masala films like Adhurs, Simha and Dubai Seenu. Here also all the films of Nayantara earned hugely at the box office. Year 2010 has arrived. After traversing three film industries of south, this year Nayanthara made her debut in the Kannada film industry. Her first Kannada film was ‘Super’. Superstar Upendra was in front of her in the lead.
For a long time, the media talked a lot about Nayanthara’s personal life more than her films. Especially about the romance of Nayanthara and Prabhudeva.
In 2009, these two met for the first time. The media quickly became obsessed with Nayantara and Prabhudeva’s love and affairs. Prabhudeva was married. People started pointing fingers at Nayanthara. So much has been written about Nayanthara that she breaks people’s happy home. Lots of mud was hurled at his character.
Nayanthara and Prabhudheva were running away from the cameras of the media regarding this matter. Never used to talk publicly about each other. But once Prabhu Deva said in his interview that he loves Nayanthara. Due to this, everyone assumed that both are going to get married soon.
According to a report, Nayantara was shooting for a film named ‘Shri Ram Rajyam’. She had announced that this would be her last film. She is going to focus on her personal life by retiring from acting. Before signing ‘Sri Ram Rajyam’, Nayantara was a top commercial heroine. Even on this some people objected that Sita’s role should have been done by some other actress and all kinds of other conservative things.
Despite all this, Nayantara adopted vegetarianism to become Sita in the film, tried to play the role honestly. The film hit theaters on 17 November 2011. People become crazy. Everyone’s complaint evaporated. The movie did well at the box office.
On one hand Nayanthara’s phone was not ending ringing for the congratulations of ‘Shri Ram Rajyam’. On the other hand, her personal life was faltering. People close to him told the media that Prabhu Deva and Nayantara have separated. This had a bad effect on Nayanthara. She took a break from films.
Nayanthara got away from films and the film world. Collected herself and adopted a new approach. She will return to films but on a different note. When Nayanthara took a break from films, Atlee, an assistant of director Shankar, was directing his first film at the same time. The name of that film was ‘Raja Rani’. This film was offered to Nayanthara and she agreed. From this film, Nayantara carved a niche for herself in South Film Industries and started her second innings. She did not want the audience to watch her films, reach theaters only in the name of Male Star.
She became a mother in 2015’s movie Maya. In Aramm, she was a district collector, in the film she had a fight with Bahubali leaders. In the film Airaa, she played the role of a journalist. On the other hand, her character in Naanum Rowdy Dhaan could not hear properly.
These were the characters played by Nayanthara who had some substance, had something to do, had a different place for the society and in their own world.
Gradually the direction of the wind changed. After some time films started running in the name of Nayantara. Shows of his films at three in the morning also started. Nayanthara’s fan club has been formed. She was also awarded the title of ‘Lady Superstar’.
Film experts believe that Nayantara has maintained the right balance in both commercial and critical films. For this reason, in the last 20 years, no other actress could beat her, replace her.
After Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada film industries, she is now entered in the Hindi film market as well. She made her Bollywood debut with Shahrukh’s film ‘Jawan’.
Height of Nayanthara
Nayantara’s height is 5 feet 5 inches and her weight is 53 kg. Nayantara’s eye color is dark brown and her hair color is black.
Nayanthara’s Wedding
Nayantara and film director Vignesh Shivan first met in 2015. Both appeared in the film Naanum Rowdy Dhaan. Both fell in love with each other while filming this film. Romantic photos of both became very viral on social media. Both of them got married with pomp on 9 June 2022 and big stars like Shahrukh Khan, Vijay Sethupathi, Surya and AR Rahman had added color to the party.
Nayanthara’s Net Worth
According to a media portal, Nayantara’s total assets are around Rs 165 crore. This lady superstar also has a private jet of her own. Which she has been using for her personal and professional travels.
Apart from this, she also has many luxury cars. She owns a BMW 5 Series and an 88 Mercedes GLS 350d. Apart from these two, she also owns a Toyota Innova Crysta, Ford Endeavor and the luxurious BMW 7-Series.
