Actress Vanitha Vijayakumar announces marriage to Peter Paul; ceremony to take place on 27 June

Vanitha Vijayakumar who debuted opposite Vijay in the 1995 film Chandralekha is getting married to Peter Paul on 27 June. The actress is the eldest daughter of actors Vijayakumar and Manjula. She has two sisters Preetha and Sridevi, who too have acted in films. Paul is a VFX technician who has worked in Tamil cinema, Bollywood and, Hollywood, according to  Times of India. India Today writes that Vanitha and Paul’s wedding ceremony will be in the presence of only close friends and family owing to government restrictions amid the COVID-19 outbreak. In March, the government had said that no more than 50 people will be allowed at weddings functions in order to maintain physical distancing, writes  Hindustan Times.   (Click here for LIVE updates on Coronavirus outbreak) [caption id=“attachment_8496911” align=“alignnone” width=“825”] Vanitha Vijayakumar. Image from Twitter[/caption] The actress announced her wedding plans in a detailed statement on Twitter. She mentioned how Paul had supported her and her YouTube channel as well as her struggles as a single mother. Here is her post

Vanitha has been married twice before. She has a son Vijay Srihari, and two daughters Jovika and Jayintha. Last year, the actress appeared as a contestant on the Kamal Haasan-hosted reality show Bigg Boss Tamil 3. She was the second housemate to be evicted, but returned to the show as a wild-card entry. Other films to her credit include Manikkam (1996), the Malayalam language Hitler Brothers (1997) and Devi (1999) in Telugu. In lieu of the pandemic, Bollywood actors Ali Fazal and Richa Chadha had postponed their wedding. They were scheduled to tie the knot in April, with reportedly many of their guests flying in from the US and Europe for the ceremony.