Nayanthara-Vignesh Shivan apologise for entering Tirupati Temple with footwear

Post their intimate wedding in Mahabalipuram, actress Nayanthara and her filmmaker husband Vignesh Shivan visited Tirupati Temple yesterday (June 10) to offer prayers and seek blessings from Lord Venkateshwara Swamy. They were in traditional outfits as Nayanthara donned a yellow saree with heavy jewelry while Vignesh was in a shirt and veshti. Pics and videos of the newlyweds from their temple visit went viral on social media. In one video, the were seen walking hand in hand. Later reports surfaced that stated that the couple was served with a legal notice for walking with footwear inside the temple premises and doing photoshoots.

As per a report in Pinkvilla, as per the Chief Vigilance Security officer, Tirumala Tirupati Desvasthanam Board, Narasimha Kishore, the actress walked with footwear and also did a photo shoot at the temple premises which is against the rules.

Reportedly, he was quoted saying, “She is seen roaming with footwear in Mada Streets. Our security immediately reacted. We have also noticed on CCTV that they did a photoshoot there. We are serving notices to Nayanatara. We have also spoken to her and she wanted to release a video to press apologising to Lord Balaji, TTD and pilgrims. However, we are going to serve notices to her.”

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Vignesh Shivan has issued an apology letter to the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam board. The letter read: “After the wedding, we went straight to Tirupati temple without even going home and attended the wedding ceremony of Ezhumalayan. After that, a lot of people came out of the temple and surrounded us. So we left there and after a while, we came back in front of the Ezhumalayan temple. We quickly finished the photo shoot and decided to get out of there as the fans would surround us if they saw us. In the ensuing commotion, we failed to notice that we were walking with shoes in the area where it was forbidden to wear shoes. We apologise for the inconvenience. We have been to Tirupati five times in the last month with the desire to get married in Tirupati. Due to various reasons, it was not possible to hold our wedding at Tirupati temple.”

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