Filmmaker Soundarya Rajinikanth, the younger daughter of iconic Tamil actor Rajinikanth, filed a police complaint after the key to her Range Rover car went missing. The Tamil director, who is best known for her films Kochadaiiyaan (2014) and Velaiilla Pattadhari 2 (2017), lodged the complaint at the Teynampet police station in Chennai. In her complaint, Soundarya informed the police that she lost the key to her sport utility vehicle (SUV) after she used another car to travel to a private college in the city to attend a function, with officials subsequently filing a case.
On the work front, Soundarya Rajinikanth revealed back in 2021 that she is working on a web series adaptation of acclaimed Tamil writer Kalki Krishnamurthy's epic five-book novel series, Ponniyin Selvan. Announcing that the title Puthu Vellam - Ponniyin Selvan Season 1 has been locked in September 2021, she opened a new office a couple of months later to proceed with the work on the series, which was revealed to be produced under the May 6th Entertainment banner in association with MX Player. With Tamil filmmaker Mani Ratnam's big-screen adaptation of the Ponniyin Selvan films coming out in two installments recently and turning out to be phenomenal box office successes, fans will be looking forward to hearing next about Soundarya Rajinikanth's web series adaptation soon.
Back in March this year, two persons - a female domestic worker, A. Eswari, 46, and a driver, K. Venkatesan, 44, were arrested by the Teynampet police for allegedly stealing gold jewelry and diamonds from Rajinikanth's elder daughter Aishwarya Rajinikanth's residence at Poes Garden in Chennai. The arrests were made after Aishwarya found out that her jewelry had gone missing from the safe locker in her house. She stated in her police complaint that she had suspicions about the domestic help in her home, Eswari, adding that she might have been behind the theft.
Eswari, who had been working at Aishwarya Rajinikanth's residence for the past 18 years, was later caught by a special team and confessed to the police that she was aware of where the keys to the safe locker had been kept. The police issued a statement saying Eswari and Venkatesan had been working at the filmmaker's home and began stealing jewelry each time they saw an opportunity. They went on to sell the jewelry and also buy a house in the city. It is estimated that approximately 100 sovereigns of gold jewelry, 4 kg of silver articles, and property documents were recovered from them by the police.
