Yes.. Cinemalover..
The thing about the Menon Director and the bright-eyed actress were doing their usual rounds a while ago. But during the shooting of Patchai.. there was another news doing it's rounds - the one about the popular theatre artist you'd mentioned. That the Menon director was the cause of her split with her long-time Boyfriend, whom she had earlier planned to marry right after the shooting. The news was that, the BF was so mad at the director, for taking his sweetheart away from him, that he stormed into the sets and had a fight with the director.
Now the news is that, the theatre artist is ruining the happily married life of an Agarwal actress. Poor thing, this Agarwal girl. She let go off a wonderful career to marry this up and coming popular director, only less than a year ago. But now this guy is supposed to be running behind the theatre artist, much to the chagrin of the actress with melancholic eyes.
Had she not settled down in marriage with this ****er, I'm sure she would've won some awards like Meera Jasmine. She really has the talents!
But certain directors are too fond of certain actresses, for whatever reasons. Like you said, this started way long ago.
Some examples:
KB - Jayanthi
KB - Geetha
BharathiRaja - Revathi
KS Ravikumar - Ramya Krishnan
KS RaviKumar - Meena
Gowtham Menon - Jyothika
Bala - Laila
Let's add this one for some spice-
AR Murugadoss - Asin 😆