Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt Defends Vijay And Trisha Amid Extra-Marital Dating Rumors
Updated on: 09 March, 2026 05:08 PM IST |Shweta Shah
Vikram Bhatt defends Vijay-Trisha amid dating rumors
Bollywood celebrities are either mum about many controversial things, such as within-the-industry affairs, or are extremely opinionated. There`s nothing in between. Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt – who was recently granted regular bail – defended Vijay and Trisha amid their alleged dating rumours.
For the uninitiated, Bhatt was put behind bars in connection with an alleged multi-crore cheating case. It also involved his wife, Shwetambari Soni.
The filmmaker penned a rather long note saying he felt "compelled to say a few things" about Thalapathy Vijay and Trisha Krishnan`s controversy amid their dating rumours.
Vikram Bhatt defends Vijay and Trisha
He took to Instagram and penned a long note about the rumoured couple and supported the two South superstars, saying he is unaware if the rumours are true or not.
Interestingly, he said he`s been on both sides, where he`s fooled someone and also been somebody`s fool.
Bhatt started his note with, "There has been a great deal of noise about the personal lives of Vijay and Trisha Krishnan. I do not know whether the rumours online are true or not. But if they are, then I feel compelled to say a few things."
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He went on to add, "My recent incarceration has made me understand the value of freedom. What is it to crave a cup of tea that is not going to come? What is it to hunt for a tube of toothpaste? What it is to wait for seven in the evening, when the bail applications come in. But there is a worse incarceration. It is the incarceration of the human soul. The incarceration of happiness. When two people remain trapped in a relationship that has run its course, but society insists that the relationship must continue, that too is a prison."
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The Raaz director further wrote, "I have been on both sides of that equation. I have been somebody’s fool, and I have been fooled. In other words, I have been there. Done that. Got the T-shirt. The human heart is fallible. It goes where it finds happiness. It came together to find happiness, and it`s going away to find happiness. Speaking for myself, I would walk out of a loveless relationship. I might walk out with money. I might walk out with property. But most importantly, I would walk out with my honour and my dignity."
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Talking of Vijay and Trisha, he said, "I find something admirable in Vijay and Trisha. There is dignity in not pretending that something does not exist. There is dignity in not hiding love as though it were something sinful. We all know the other kind of life that people live."
"Men who run anonymous profiles on dating sites. Men who delete their messages before they get home. Men who spend afternoons with women they will never respect enough to acknowledge publicly. And yet it is often these very people who sit in judgement over others."
"Individually, most of us are compassionate people. We understand weakness. We understand heartbreak. We understand the complicated nature of love. But something changes when we become a collective. In a crowd, we suddenly become sinless. We become righteous. We become judges. And that is when empathy disappears," he continued.
Vikram Bhatt concluded his note with, "Their films belong to us. Their personal lives do not. I will always stand for the freedom of the human heart. They have a right to live and to love."
As of yet, neither Vijay nor Trisha has commented on the dating rumours.
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