Popular music composer Ilaiyaraja’s younger son, Yuvan Shankar Raja, has converted to Islam.
Though the rumour was going around for quite some time, Yuvan, a music composer, confirmed this in a tweet.
There were rumours that Yuvan, who was married twice, was now going to marry a Muslim woman.
However, he has denied the rumours.
Yuvan got married to his longtime friend Sujaya in 2005. But they got divorced in 2007.
In 2011, he married Shilpa. But the second marriage also went through turbulence.
Sources in the industry say his second wife has gone to London and is living there with her parents.
“I’m not married for the third time. The news is false, and yes, I follow Islam and I’m proud of it,” he said.
embraced Islam gives me inner peace and absolutely there is no need to hide that.
Yuvan also tweeted: “My family supports my decision and there is no misunderstanding between me and my dad”.
While we tried to reach Yuvan regarding this, a source close to the music director revealed, “Yuvan was very attached to his mother and soon after she passed away, he started missing her a lot.
He also met a spiritual guru, but we cannot say what exactly made him follow Islam,” and maintained that, he was definitely not inspired by fellow composer AR Rahman (who had converted to Islam) in his decision.
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“He has been doing namaz five times a day all these months. He is not missing his prayers even when he is at work and ensures that he allots time for it at his studio as well,” said the source.