Nayanthara takes up deeksha with fiance

Nayanthara took a special deeksha before commencing the shoot for a mythological movie. She has begun the shoot of a Tamil movie named ‘Mookuthi Amman’, in which she is playing the role of a goddess. Nayanthara vowed to take deeksha during the entire shoot of this movie and abstain from eating non-veg.

Along with her fiancé Vignesh Sivan she did special pooja at Bhagavathi Amman Temple in Kanyakumari And at Lord Murugan Temple. The film is being directed by RJ Balaji.

A born Christian, Nayanthara converted into the Hindu religion some years ago.

Jalapathy Gudelli

Jalapathy Gudelli is the editor and chief critic of Telugucinema.com. He has been writing film reviews since 2002. A post-graduate in Journalism from Osmania University, he also studied Film Appreciation at FTII, Pune. He can usually be found on Twitter talking about the film he just watched or updating film news as they develop. You can follow him on Twitter - https://twitter.com/JalapathyG

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