Keerthy Suresh has spoken plainly about the friction her interfaith relationship created within her family before she married Antony Thattil in December 2024. In a new conversation with Curly Tales, the National Award-winning actor said the differences in religious background were not ignored at home, and it took time to bring her family around. The interview, published on November 5, 2026, also brought back the story of how her mother, veteran actor Menaka, discovered the romance through a personal diary.
The Diary That Started It All
Keerthy Suresh began dating Antony Thattil shortly after finishing Class 12. The relationship stayed out of public view for years, but it did not stay hidden from her mother for long. During her college days, Menaka found the diary and read it.
“When I was in college, my mother read my diary. It had everything (about our relationship). She was like, ‘I’m your mother; I can read your diary.’”
The moment left a lasting mark. Keerthy Suresh said she stopped writing a diary altogether after that. She used to love writing, but the diary disappeared from her life. “I really wish I could get it back. But I have a feeling that my mom burned it,” she said in the same interview.
The diary story is not just a funny family anecdote. It marks the point where a private teenage romance became a household matter, long before the public knew anything about Antony Thattil.
A 15-Year Journey From Class 12 to Marriage
Keerthy Suresh and Antony Thattil met through mutual friends in December 2009. They started dating in January 2010, when Keerthy was 17 and still in school. Antony, who is seven years older, was working in Qatar at the time, and the two spent the early years of their relationship long-distance.
The relationship grew quietly while Keerthy Suresh built a career in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Hindi cinema. Antony Thattil, a Dubai-based businessman who imports window furnishings, knew her before she became a familiar face on screen. “He had seen me before I became an actor. That’s the best part. We kind of grew up together,” she said.
For most of their time together, the couple kept the romance away from the media. They avoided solo holidays and often travelled with groups of friends. Even when pictures appeared on social media, few people connected the dots. The relationship became Instagram-official only in November 2024, when Keerthy shared a Diwali photo with the caption, “15 years and counting. It has always been… AntoNY x KEerthy (Iykyk).”
When Two Faiths Came Together
Keerthy Suresh comes from a Hindu family, while Antony Thattil belongs to a Christian background. In the Curly Tales interview, she did not soften the difficulty. The religious difference created problems at home, and convincing her family took time.
“We met in December 2009, and we started dating in January 2010. In 2024, we got married. Since he’s a Christian, there obviously were problems at home that I had to face. It took a while for me to convince [my family].”
The word “obviously” carries weight. Keerthy Suresh is not describing a rare or dramatic conflict. She is naming a common family experience in India, where interfaith marriages often require long conversations, patience, and emotional negotiation. Her account makes the situation relatable without turning it into a spectacle.
Family acceptance did not happen overnight, but it did happen. Keerthy’s father, producer G. Suresh Kumar, played a key role in smoothing the path. In an earlier interview, Keerthy recalled speaking to him about the religious differences four years before the wedding.
“At home, we assumed we might have issues due to religious differences. I spoke to dad one day four years ago, but he made it smooth. It was nothing like I had imagined.”
G. Suresh Kumar later told Kerala Kaumudi that Antony Thattil visits temples and did not want Keerthy to convert. The marriage, he said, took place with everyone’s consent and blessings. That detail matters because it shows the wedding was not a quiet break from either family. It was a negotiated coming-together.
Antony Thattil: The Man Behind the Headlines
Antony Thattil is not from the film world. He runs his own business, importing window furnishings, and he has largely stayed away from the entertainment circuit. When the wedding was announced, the sudden attention unsettled him. Keerthy Suresh recalled his anxiety about photographers.
“He was very stressed once the wedding was announced. He was always like, ‘Are there paps here?’”
That reaction fits the larger pattern of their relationship. Antony Thattil knew Keerthy before the fame, and the couple spent years protecting their normal life from the noise that comes with stardom. The wedding changed that balance, at least for a while. But the discomfort was about attention, not about the relationship itself.
The Wedding That Blended Two Traditions
Keerthy Suresh and Antony Thattil married on December 12, 2024, in Goa. The ceremony was intimate, attended by close friends and family, and it included both Tamil Hindu and Malayali Christian rituals. Keerthy wore a yellow silk sari with a green border for the traditional Tamil ceremony, sitting on her father’s lap for the nuptial knot. Later, the couple exchanged vows in a white wedding ceremony.
The two-day celebration was not a compromise where one tradition was erased. Both faiths were given room. For a couple that had spent 15 years together, much of it in long-distance and quiet secrecy, the wedding was an emotional release.
“Literally it’s a dream… I can’t even say it was a dream because we’ve had nightmares of eloping. So I don’t know if I can even call it a dream. But my heart was full, and it was a very emotional moment for us because we always wanted this.”
The “nightmares of eloping” line is not casual. It points to the stress of waiting, the family conversations, and the uncertainty that comes with an interfaith relationship in a society that often treats such unions as complicated.
Keerthy Suresh’s Career After Marriage
Keerthy Suresh has not slowed down since the wedding. Her most recent project is Akka, a Netflix crime drama directed by Dharmaraj Shetty. The series pairs her with Radhika Apte and premiered on Netflix on October 30, 2026. Set in a society ruled by women for centuries, the show follows a rivalry that threatens a legacy. The cast also includes Tanvi Azmi, Monika Pawar, Anshumaan Pushkar, Poornima Indrajith, and Vishak Nair.
Before Akka, Keerthy Suresh had built a reputation for choosing roles that move across languages and genres. She won the National Award for Mahanati, and she has worked in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Hindi projects. The Akka role places her in a streaming-first gangster saga, a shift from the period dramas and family films that made her a household name.
What the Actress Is Saying About Family and Acceptance
The Curly Tales interview is not a tell-all. Keerthy Suresh does not name anyone who opposed the marriage, and she does not describe shouting matches or ultimatums. She says “problems at home” and “took a while,” and she leaves it there. That restraint is part of what makes the admission land. It sounds like a real family working through a real disagreement, not a scripted celebrity confession.
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The interview also makes clear that the diary discovery and the interfaith tension are connected parts of the same story. A mother reading a daughter’s diary is a small domestic event. A family wrestling with a daughter’s choice of partner across religious lines is a larger social one. Keerthy Suresh experienced both in the same household, years before the public knew Antony Thattil’s name.
Her story does not present the wedding as a victory over her family. It presents it as something that required convincing, patience, and eventually acceptance. That is a quieter and more honest arc than the usual celebrity love-story script. It also explains why the “nightmares of eloping” line carries so much weight. The couple did not elope. They waited, talked, and brought their families along.
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