Blockbuster Tamil filmmaker Vignesh Shivan surprised fans on Sunday on the occasion of International Mother's Day by sharing never-before-seen photos of his wife-actress Nayanthara and their twin babies, Uyir RudroNeel N Shivan and Ulag Daiwik N Shivan. The hit director shared his Mother's Day wishes with the superstar actress on social media, while also posting the pictures, which seem to have been taken right after their twin boys were born in the hospital in October 2022. Sharing the unseen photos of Nayanthara and their babies on Instagram, Vignesh Shivan wrote, "Happy First Mother’s Day to the Best mother in the world", with wishes pouring in the comments section of his post from close friends, well-wishers, and fans.
Vignesh Shivan and Nayanthara tied the knot on June 9, 2022, and were blessed with the two twin boys via surrogacy the same year, with the couple revealing their names to be Uyir RudroNeel N Shivan and Ulag Daiwik N Shivan back in April. Having first met on the sets of the 2015 blockbuster, Naanum Rowdydhaan, the hit director went on to share more new pictures of the actress with their babies and also penned a heartfelt note writing, "Dear Nayan … you are a 10 on 10 as a Mother too ❤️ immense love and power to you my thangamey ! Your first Mother’s Day 😍☺️ A Dream come true for us 😇 Thanking God and all the goodness in this world for blessing us with the best blessed babies 😇 #happymothersday #mothersday My Uyir & Ulag with my UyirUlag 😍😘😇❤️❤️".
Known for being extremely close to his mother, Vignesh Shivan also posted a photo he took along with her with the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in the background, while conveying his wishes to her. He wrote, "Happy #mothersday MeenaKumari my loving meeeeee ! The only thing that’s taller than Burj Khalifa is the love and the efforts you have taken to give us this life ❤️🥲🌹🌹🌹🙏🏼🙏🏼😇😇😇😇😇😇😇 Best mother in the world 🌎❤️❤️😇😇😘😘😘😘😘😘😘".
Recently, Vignesh Shivan went on to reveal the reason behind the choice of the names for his children during Galatta Media's new candid interview series 'Game Changers with Suhasini Maniratnam' and said, "Actually, that's how we address each other. I call Nayan Uyir and she calls me the same. We call each other 'Uyir' and 'Ulagam'. We don't say 'dear' and 'baby'. So, at the time when we were thinking about names for the children, there was a board in my house on which I and Nayan will write, and it hit us like a spark at that moment and we decided to go with Uyir and Ulagam. There's confusion now in my house because sometimes when she (Nayanthara) calls Uyir, I will look and so will the baby. We call ourselves Uyir and Ulagam and then we added nice names for the children - RudroNeel and Daiwik. We liked the names since they are our children and it's our wish." The Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal director further stated, "The name is Bengali-mixed. Since there's an O in RudroNeel, it's like a Bengali name. Because Nayanthara is a Bengali name. We put in a lot of work to choose the names correctly. To some people, irrespective of what names we choose, they'll try to create a comedy of it. I guess it's what they like doing."
Watch the interview of Vignesh Shivan with Suhasini Maniratnam below:
