Arthana Binu, best known among Tamil audiences for playing one of the female leads in Karthi's blockbuster Kadaikutty Singam (2018), made serious allegations against her father actor Vijayakumar stating that he broke into her home and threatened her sister and her grandmother. The popular Malayalam actress added that her father had threatened her to stop acting in films and limit her choice of roles to those only he would approve of. In a video posted on Instagram, Arthana said that Vijayakumar threatened her that he will file a case against her if she decides to sign a Malayalam film. She further claimed that she had to sign a contract during the filming of the Mammootty-starrer Shylock (2020) stating that she is acting in the film of her own free will.
Arthana, who made her Tamil cinema debut in Samuthirakani's Thondan (2017), while also starring in G. V. Prakash Kumar's Semma (2018) and Vikranth's Vennila Kabaddi Kuzhu 2 (2019), is currently residing at her mother's home with her maternal grandparents. Currently a part of Nakkhul's Vasco Da Gama, she alleged that her father Vijayakumar has several police cases filed against him, including one for attempting to collect the gold and money he owes her mother. Sharing the video of Vijayakumar jumping over the wall of her house on Instagram, Arthana also included his picture of him yelling at them through the window along with a detailed statement in the caption.
Arthana wrote, "I am putting up this post as even though we called the police station for help at around 9:45 am no one has taken any action till now. The person in the video is my biological father Vijayakumar who is also a Malayalam Film Actor. This video shows him going back after successfully trespassing our residence by jumping over the wall to make his was to the property that too inspite of the existence of a protection order issued way back around ten years in favour of me, my mom and my sister. My parents are legally divorced and me my mom and my sister are living in our maternal house along with my maternal grandmother who is 85+. He has been trespassing for years and there are multiple police cases which we have filed against him. Today, he barged into our compound and since the door was locked he was threatening us through the open window. (sic)" She added, "I spoke to him when heard threatening my sister and grandmother to kill them. He also threatened me to stop acting in movies and that he would go to any extent, if I don’t obey. He also said that if I wish to act I should act in the movies which he say. He kept on banging on the window and yelling. He accused my grandmother of selling me off for living. He also bad mouthed the team of my Malayalam movie for which I have just completed shooting. All this is happening when there is an ongoing case in the court which me and my mom have filed against him against trespassing, intruding and creating problems in my workplace, also creating chaos at my mom’s workplace and sister’s educational institution. (sic)"
Concluding her statement, Arthana said, "I am acting in movies only to my will. Acting has always been my passion and I will continue to act as long as my health permits me to. Whenever I act in a Malayalam movie he filed case to stop me from acting. Even when I acted in Shylock, he filed a legal case ,and to prevent the movie from being shelved I had to sign an an official legal document stating that I acted in the movie at my own will. There is more to write but the word limit permitted for the caption doesn’t allow me to. There is also an ongoing case against him which we filed to retrieve the money and gold he owes my mom. (sic)"
