Nayanthara

In the Payya issue she was quoted as saying that there was no question of returning the money back to the Council or Lingusamy. All this, when the Council even had plans to request Cinema-related regulatory bodies in other languages to extend support for the case by proscribing her from acting in other languages. Some guts, we say.

Nayan hardly moved. She stood by her stand refusing to pay up. An out-of-court settlement wasn’t on the cards either. And she went public reasoning that she deserved her pay since she was made to waste her call sheets for three months. And then, she won. Which makes me think – they (The Rolling Stones) probably weren’t serious when they sang ‘You Can't Always Get What You Want’.

And when her peers are going bananas about offers in Bollywood, Nayan is just blissfully content with her presence in South Indian Cinema. And endorsements also seem to be a strict no, no.

So that’s Nayan for you, whose valor is possibly attributed to her military-schools upbringing - the bold face of South Indian cinema who doesn’t cry fowl at anyone unless absolutely called for with a reason.