Vignesh Shivan deactivates X account amid Nayanthara-Dhanush feud

Amid the growing intensity of the feud between Tollywood actors Nayanthara and Dhanush, the actress’ husband, Vignesh Shivan, deactivated his X (formerly Twitter) account in the early hours of Sunday.

The unforeseen development on the first day of December came just days after Shivan had posted a reel on his Instagram account that seemingly mocked Dhanush. In response, he had faced heavy trolling and backlash from fans of the ‘Ranjhanaa’ actor.

While the exact reason behind the deactivation of one of Shivan’s primary social media handles is not known, trolling and privacy reasons are heavily speculated by several social media users.

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On November 18, the 39-year-old shared unseen footage from ‘Nayanthara: Beyond The Fairytale’ on Instagram. However, he captioned it as “The 10 crores clip that wants to be taken down from our Netflix documentary. Please watch it here for free.”

The move had then raised eyebrows among fans of Dhanush as it came across as a mockery of the actor’s legal notice to Nayanthara and Vignesh Shivan for having used a three-seconds-long behind-the-scenes video from the sets of ‘Naanum Rowdy Dhaan’, a movie produced by Dhanush.

The feud between Dhanush and Nayanthara flared up in recent days. While an open letter from the actress accusing the producer-actor of “vengeance” had caused initial tensions, the situation took a new turn on November 27 when the Madras High Court formally allowed Dhanush’s legal team to sue Netflix, Nayanthara, and Vignesh Shivan over alleged unauthorized usage of clips from ‘Naanum Rowdy Dhaan’.

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Vignesh Shivan has not issued any other statements on any of his other social media handles following the deactivation of his X account.