Sathyan Anthikkad’s 2003 Malayalam film Manassinakkare marked Nayanthara’s significant debut in the South Indian cinema industry. Along with her success rate, her filmography has only become better.
Her reputation as a Southern celebrity was further solidified when she was cast opposite Rajnikanth in Chandramukhi. Fans were very interested in Nayanthara’s Bollywood debut with Shah Rukh Khan in Jawan because she has been a financially successful female superstar in the South.
Nayanthara recently revealed in an old interview with Kairali TV that she had no pals in the business.
Nayanthara said, “I maintain only professional relationships with my colleagues in the industry. I reserve personal connections for people I know well. I give a lot of value to friendship. In life, I may have only two or three people who know me very well and whom I can genuinely call friends. They know everything about me. They’re the kind of people who would show up immediately if I ever needed anything. It’s hard to build and maintain close friendships in the industry, mainly because we don’t work with the same people on every film. Once a shoot wraps and we say our goodbyes, we might only see each other occasionally at events or parties.”
“It is present in all industries, including Malayalam and Bollywood, among both heroes and heroines,” Nayanthara explained when discussing the competitiveness amongst actors. It is not healthy, though. We should continue to compete with ourselves, aiming to do better with every performance, rather than with other people. We can not compete with other people in this race. One individual may receive different characters and scripts than another. Instead, we may improve our performances by at least 1% with each film if we continue to compete with ourselves.
Regarding her career, Nayanthara most recently appeared in Test alongside Siddharth and R Madhavan.