Overview
- This week actor-director R. Parthiban met Chief Minister Vijay and gifted a custom painting and a handwritten note that praise his shift from film stardom to the chief minister’s office.
- The artwork shows Vijay in regal attire beside a throne and the Tamil note translates to language that likens his rise to an ascent to power and calls him a great scholar or emperor.
- The meeting is Parthiban’s first public encounter with Vijay since Parthiban’s March remarks about actress Trisha Krishnan prompted criticism and a later apology on X.
- Photographs of the visit were widely shared on social media and drew visible fan reactions, with some users mocking Parthiban’s earlier comments and others praising the gesture.
- Reports note that the meeting comes against continuing, developing media coverage of Vijay’s private legal matters but there are no new public statements from Trisha or substantive updates to the earlier dispute.