Nayanthara & Vignesh Shivan make first public appearance at movie theatre after becoming parents

Pictures from their visit to a theatre in Chennai have surfaced on social media. On Monday night, the film had its premiere for a select set of audience. Going by the pictures and videos that have surfaced from the venue, it looks like Nayanthara and Vignesh Shivan spent few minutes chatting and waving to fans who assembled for the special show.

Directed by Ashwin Saravanan and featuring Anupam Kher in an important role, Connect is the first Tamil film to release in cinemas without an intermission. Connect marks the filmmaker’s second outing with Nayanthara. Their first film Maya was a paranormal thriller. Produced by Vignesh Shivn, the film is set to release on Thursday.

The film’s trailer was released last week. It opens with shots of a happy family from what looks like a vacation just 24 hours before the national lockdown. Nayanthara plays the mother of a teenage daughter. While Vinay plays her husband, Sathyaraj plays her father. Nayanthara realises that her daughter is possessed, and she has to deal with the situation all by herself. Anupam Kher plays a Mumbai-based priest who suggests that exorcism needs to be performed on the girl. Looks like the rest of the film is about Nayanthara’s efforts to save her daughter. Director Ashwin had revealed that the film is a horror-thriller set during the national lockdown of India.

Nayanthara was recently seen in husband Vignesh Shivan’s directorial, Kaathu Vaakula Rendu Kadhal, a romantic comedy co-starring Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Vijay Sethupathi. She played a character called Kanmani Ganguly in the film, who falls in love with Vijay Sethupathi’s character that’s loved by Samantha’s character at the same time.

In Tamil, her most recent release was 02, a thriller that entirely unfolds inside a bus that gets stuck in a landslide.