The Vijay-Sangeetha divorce case, between actor and TVK chief Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar and his wife Sangeetha Sornalingam, was adjourned to June 15 by the Chengalpattu Family Court on Monday. Justice Sasikala presided over the brief hearing. The case, filed by Sangeetha under the Special Marriage Act, 1954 with a petition that includes allegations of adultery, mental cruelty and desertion, was originally listed in December 2025 and came up for its first substantive hearing this month. Counsels for both sides said at the close of the day that Vijay and Sangeetha would appear in person on June 15, notwithstanding his election calendar.
The couple have been together on paper since 1999. Their marriage was solemnised in Chennai on August 25 of that year, following a registration in the United Kingdom on July 10, 1998. Sangeetha Sornalingam is of Sri Lankan Tamil origin, born and raised in the UK, and a British citizen. Her father is a Tamil industrialist in London, and she has kept a low profile through the marriage. The couple have two children: Jason Sanjay Vijay, 25, whose filmmaking debut Sigma with Sundeep Kishan is set for release this year, and Divya Saasha, 20, who remains out of the public eye.
Court filings and reports indicate that the couple have lived under one roof but separately since April 2021, following an allegation in Sangeetha’s petition that she had discovered an adulterous relationship involving an actress. Two rounds of attempted reconciliation are on record between August 2024 and February 2025, the last of them a personal meeting on November 9, 2025. The petition was filed on December 3, 2025, and formally listed before the court on February 24 this year. Reliefs sought include dissolution of the marriage, the right of residence at their matrimonial home in Neelankarai, and permanent alimony; reports have cited a demand of Rs 250 crore with a counter-offer in the Rs 35 crore range, neither of which has been officially confirmed. A separate application under Section 33(1) of the Special Marriage Act has been filed requesting in-camera proceedings and media restraint.
The April 20 hearing had been preceded by reports that Vijay’s counsel would ask the court for a video appearance on the next date, citing his campaign commitments. By the close of the day, that request had been revised, with counsels for both sides indicating that the parties would appear in person on June 15. Back-channel negotiations between the two legal teams are also reported to be ongoing, with mutual-consent separation under discussion; the sticking point, according to multiple accounts, is the financial settlement.
For Vijay, the case sits alongside the political timeline he has set for himself. TVK, the party he floated in February 2024 and whose flag and anthem he unveiled that August, is contesting all 234 seats in the Tamil Nadu Assembly election on April 23 without an alliance. He is personally on the ballot in Perambur in north Chennai and in Trichy East. Polling averages by Loyola and IPDS place the DMK comfortably ahead on vote share, with TVK projected around 22 to 25 per cent, a roughly fifty-seat haul, second-place finishes in a further eighty constituencies, and a role as either spoiler or kingmaker. Results will be declared on May 4.
He has made indirect reference to the divorce on the trail. At a rally this month, speaking about the pressures on him, he said those close to him had “targeted” him, and that he “had nothing left”. The line drew pushback from within his own party; TVK founding member Ranjana Nachiyar criticised him, framing the question as one of priorities. Jana Nayagan, directed by H. Vinoth, has been announced as his last film as lead actor, a marker of the full-time political pivot. His previous release, GOAT in September 2024, remains one of his highest-grossing films at roughly Rs 413 crore worldwide; Good Bad Ugly followed in April 2025.
The June 15 hearing falls just over six weeks after the election results. How the case moves from here is likely to be read, at least partly, against the politics of those six weeks.