EXCLUSIVE: Vignesh Shivan reveals the reason he and Nayanthara named their children Uyir and Ulag - WATCH VIDEO!

Hit filmmaker Vignesh Shivan, best known for his films Podaa Podi (2012), Naanum Rowdy Dhaan (2015), Thaanaa Serndha Koottam (2018), and Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal (2022), recently sat down with National Award-winning Tamil actress Suhasini Maniratnam for a fun-filled conversation in Galatta Media's new candid interview series, 'Game Changers'. Vignesh, who got married to leading actress Nayanthara in a grand wedding ceremony in 2022, was blessed with two twin boys via surrogacy, withe couple naming them Uyir RudroNeel N Shivan and Ulag Daiwik N Shivan. 

When asked the decision to go with peculiar names for their children, Vignesh Shivan said, "Actually, that's how we address each other. I call Nayan as Uyir and she calls me the same. We call each other as 'Uyir' and 'Ulagam'. We don't say 'dear' and 'baby'. So, at the time when we were thinking about names for the children, there's a board in my house on which I and Nayan will write, and it hit us like a spark at that moment and we decided to go with Uyir and Ulagam. There's a confusion now in my house because sometimes when she (Nayanthara) calls Uyir, I will look and so will the baby. We call ourselves Uyir and Ulagam and then we added nice names for the children - RudroNeel and Daiwik. We liked the names since they are our children and it's our wish." Speaking further about the choice of his children's names, Vignesh added, "The name is Bengali-mixed. Since there's an O in RudroNeel, it's like a Bengali name. Because Nayanthara is a Bengali name. We put in a lot of work to choose the names correctly. To some people, irrespective of what names we choose, they'll try to create a comedy of it. I guess it's what they like doing." 

Watch Vignesh Shivan in conversation with Suhasini Maniratnam below: