actress amala paul and filmmaker vijay filed for a divorce by mutual consent in chennai on saturday the couple has apparently been staying separately for a few months now vijay and his family had recently spoken about the impending divorce to the media while amala has maintained silence on the issuewhen contacted vijay confirmed the news saying yes we have filed for a divorce by mutual consent amala was not available for comments till the time we went to press the couple who met each other while working in the tamil film deiva thirumagal in 2011 got married on june 12 2014 earlier the filmmaker had issued a statement in which he hinted that breach of trust has been the split factor between them the base for any marital relationship is honesty and trust when that is breached the very existence of committed relationship becomes meaningless i really value the institution of marriage and relationship a lot vijay said in the statement meanwhile a family friend of the couple had said that amala was harrased by her inlaws for working in movies after marriage