While promoting his film Maharaja, Vijay Sethupathi revealed why he refused to perform romantic scenes with co-actor Krithi Shetty. The reason was simple — a significant age gap since Shetty is almost 25 years younger than him. Speaking to Behindwoods TV in 2024, the actor said: “I declined the offer of being paired opposite Krithi in DSP movie. I played her father in Uppena, which the makers didn’t know about. There’s a scene in Uppena that Krithi was nervous about when we were shooting. I even asked her to think of me as her real father while we were shooting that. She is a little older than my son. I told them I couldn’t do it.” DISCLAIMER: This article is based on information from the public domain and/or the experts we spoke to. The conversation deserves attention not because it is about celebrity gossip, but because it touches on something much larger: the importance of boundaries when there are differences in age, experience, and power. Kruti Shah, psychologist at Mpower, Aditya Birla Education Trust, says …