Mar 15, 2026 10:21am IST
Chinmayi Sripaada Slams Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth for Praising Me Too Accused Vairamuthu After Jnanpith Honor
Vairamuthu, the prominent poet-lyricist, has been selected for the prestigious Jnanpith Award. He became the third Tamil writer to achieve this country’s highest literary honor after Akilan (Akilandam) and Jayakanthan.
Singer Chinmayi Sripaada, who was among many to call out Vairamuthu during the Me Too movement in 2018, slammed Rajinikanth for lauding the lyricist after he was selected for the award. Before Thalaivar, she also bashed Kamal Haasan for doing the same.
After the award announcement, Chinmayi expressed her anger and wrote on X, “In 2018, multiple women of different age groups named one Poet - Lyricist as their molester,” adding, “The collective voices of the women who named him, were silenced. I paid a very heavy price - the rest of the women who left their dreams behind weren’t half as lucky as I.”
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When Rajinikanth sent a congratulatory message to Vairamuthu for the honor and wrote, “My heartfelt congratulations to my dear friend, the esteemed poet Vairamuthu, recipient of the great Jnanpith Award of our Indian nation. @Vairamuthu #JnanpithAward,” Chinmayi slammed him and wrote, “Ayyyyyyoooo!!! Puriyave puriyaadha (what a puzzle)??!”
Ashapoorna Devi was the first woman writer to be honored by India with the Jnanpith Award. Reading Chinmayi on X brought back memories of her. These were the questions Ashapoorna Devi raised while accepting the Jnanpith:
— Chinmayi Sripaada (@Chinmayi) March 14, 2026
"Why does this society tolerate so many unjustifiable…
Yesterday, Kamal Haasan had also congratulated the lyricist and poet as he wrote in Tamil, “Tamil literature, with its long tradition, has received the prestigious literary award, the Jnanpith, for the third time. After the previous Jnanpith received by Jayakanthan, after the passage of a quarter century, my uncle poet-emperor @Vairamuthu has added this great honor to Tamil. With the poetic words 'The sky is a Bodhi tree for me; every day it gives me a message,' which fell into my ears, entered my heart, and mingled in friendship, I take pride in congratulating this friend.”
The singer called the “Vikram” actor out and wrote, “For God’s sake. P.S.: Men in such power in cinema transitioning to politics completely turning a deaf ear to women who come on record to say they were molested by 'his uncle-mentor' must remind women who vote - that men will never be on our side. The weirdest thing - one of the women in his own party publicly named the Poet. End of the day, men WILL stand by their bros, uncles, dads, friends, mentors. Who cares if multiple women were traumatised?”
After the award announcement, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin expressed immense joy on Twitter.
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