Karthik Subbaraj shuts down reporter who called Jigarthanda DoubleX heroine Nimisha Sajayan ‘not beautiful’

Karthik Subbaraj’s reply was met with claps from everyone including SJ Suryah and Raghava Lawrence. Santhosh Narayanan, who was also present at the success meet, later took to X to slam the reporter and called out his malicious intent to create a controversy. “I was there. It was not just about the ridiculous ‘beauty’ question for the reporter. There was a conscious effort from the guy to ask something controversial and he was so proud after asking this. Nothing has changed since the appalling ‘Jigarthanda’ – ‘Figuredhanda’ question 9 years ago,” SaNa wrote.

Nimisha Sajayan didn’t attend the event. The actor, who was also recently seen in Siddharth’s Chittha, is getting praise for her back-to-back good performances. Nimisha, a Malayalam actor, made her silver screen debut in 2017 in an uncredited role in C/O Saira Banu. She has been part of many notable films like Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum, The Great Indian Kitchen, Nayattu, and Oru Thekkan Thallu Case. In Jigarthanda DoubleX, she played the role of a tribal woman named Malaiyarasi–a strong-headed wife of gangster Alliyan Caesar (Raghava Lawrence).