`Siruthai’ Siva , director of Rajinikanth’s Annatthe has a brother - Actor – director Bala . a popular actor in Malayalam films. Bala who married singer Amrutha Suresh and divorced her made a startling revealation. He said 70% of the money that he saved from his acting career ( mostly in Malayalam films) had to been given off forcibly due to the designs of a few relatives and friends who cheated and exploited him. This he said was in start of 2020 and followed by this set back , came the lock down period that froze all work and payments. All the films that he was working were held up. He was sitting at home doing nothing.
He said that his weakness was exploited and his hard earned money was just taken away by those people. He did not explicitly name the people but said that many knew who he was speaking about. He said his relatives and a few friends cheated him. He was sitting at home without any work and money.
He said many may think as to why he did not seek the help of his parents . His father director Jeyakumar had worked close to 400 documentaries and short films. He paased away on November 2020. Bala’s brother is Siva who directed four hit films of Ajith and Siruthai starring Karthi. He is now directing Rajinikanth’s Annatthe. Bala said that his father , sister and his brother were all well off but were all self made. So he never felt that it was proper to go to them. He has not even asked a share of the ancestral property. Bala’s grandfather Velan is the owner of Arunachalam studios in Chennai.
It was during this time that he realized that if he could find it tough to go through this phase of lock down , then what would be the fate of a common man. Currently, he is acting in Annatthe and has a film opposite Mammooty and a few other projects. Bala said that an accident had turned his life upside down. He got bloated up and it was Ajith who encouraged him to come back to films. He said that he was going through a depression and Ajith called him for a makeup test for Vedachalam. Bala took a look at the mirror and left. Bala later acted with Ajith in Veeram.
Bala said that the reports that he saw Amrutha Suresh at a singing reality show where he was a judge and that he fell for her and got married , was totally false. He said that interviewer after interviewer came with the assumption that the story of falling in love at reality show was true. He tried several times to correct it but it did not work and so he finally just nodded his head to it.
He divorced his wife after three years of separation. They have a baby girl who is with Amrutha. After their marriage breakup, a phone conversation between him and Amrutha was leaked. The tape was a conversation between him and a producer's wife .He was also romantically linked with actress Pratakeesha. He made a cameo in Lucifer , the 2020’s Kerala’s biggest hit .
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