Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt on Monday shared a note on social media defending Vijay and Trisha after the two were recently spotted attending a wedding reception together amid the actor-politician’s ongoing divorce battle.
In a long Instagram post, Bhatt urged people not to judge actors for their personal choices, arguing that public scrutiny should end with their work. “Their films belong to us. Their personal lives do not,” he wrote in the caption of his post.
Bhatt, who was recently released on bail in a Rs 30 crore fraud case, said his time in jail had forced him to reflect on life and relationships. “My recent incarceration has made me understand the value of freedom. What it is to crave a cup of tea that is not going to come. What it is to hunt for a tube of toothpaste. What it is to wait for seven in the evening, when the bail applications come in,” he wrote.
Vikram Bhatt’s post for people slamming Vijay-Trisha
Referring to the chatter around Vijay and Trisha’s personal lives, the director said he was not aware whether the rumours circulating online were true, but felt compelled to share his thoughts nonetheless. “There has been a great deal of noise about the personal lives of Vijay and Trisha Krishnan. I do not know whether the rumours online are true or not. But if they are, then I feel compelled to say a few things,” he wrote.
The director, best known for films like Raaz Reboot, wrote that while prison is difficult, there is an even worse kind of confinement — what he called the “incarceration of the human soul.” According to him, when two people remain trapped in a relationship that has run its course simply because society expects them to stay together, “that too is a prison.”
Bhatt added he had “been on both sides” of such relationships. “I have been somebody’s fool, and I have been fooled. He talked about love and called human heart “fallible. “It goes where it finds happiness. It came together to find happiness, and it’s going away to find happiness,” he wrote.
He went on to say that, personally, he would choose dignity over staying in a loveless relationship. “Speaking for myself,” he wrote, he would walk out of such a relationship, even if it meant walking away with money or property, but most importantly with “my honour and my dignity.”
Praising Vijay and Trisha, Bhatt said he finds “something admirable” in them, adding that there is dignity in “not pretending that something does not exist,” and in not hiding love as though “it were something sinful.”
Live and let live
He also criticised what he described as society’s hypocrisy in judging relationships. Bhatt wrote that many people secretly lead double lives: “Men who run anonymous profiles on dating sites. Men who delete their messages before they get home.
Men who spend afternoons with women they will never respect enough to acknowledge publicly. And yet it is often these very people who sit in judgment over others,” he said.
The filmmaker concluded by talking about empathy often disappearing when individuals become part of a crowd. Reiterating his stance, Bhatt ended the note by writing that actors’ films may belong to the audience, but their personal lives do not. “I will always stand for the freedom of the human heart,” he said, adding, that people have a right “to live and to love.”
Vijay-Trisha attend wedding reception together
Bhatt’s post came days after TVK (Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam) chief Vijay was seen attending a wedding reception in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, with actor Trisha amid his divorce case. The appearance was made after a December 2025 divorce petition filed by Vijay’s wife, Sangeetha Sornalingam, emerged online, accusing him of adultery.
The two attended the wedding reception of film producer and distributor Kalpathi Suresh and Meenakshi’s son.
Vijay’s divorce case
On February 27, Sangeetha’s divorce petition emerged on social media in which she had requested the court to end their 27 years of marriage. In the petition filed at the Chengalpattu District Court, she cited infidelity, mental cruelty, neglect, and desertion as the reasons behind seeking divorce.
In her petition, Sangeetha accused Vijay of having an extramarital relationship with a female actor and described her experience in the marriage as “persistent mental cruelty, neglect and desertion.” She requested the court to conduct the entire proceeding of the case on camera to protect the family from additional stress.
Vijay hasn’t directly addressed the issue yet. He, however, addressed concerns about “recent problems surrounding him” during a Women’s Day event in Chennai on March 7.
He said, “Please don’t worry about the recent problems surrounding me. Those issues are not worth your time. I will take care of them myself. What hurts me the most is seeing you feel sad or stressed because of my problems. Please don’t carry that burden for me. Instead, let’s focus on the welfare of people,” he said.
Meanwhile, Vijay’s last film, titled Jana Nayagan, is struggling to obtain a censor certificate. The film’s new release date is yet to be announced.
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