Kani Kushmi is a well-known star to Malayalees. The star's parents are also well-known to Malayalees through social media. Maitreyan and Jayashree are not legally married. They say that they do not believe in concepts including marriage. Kani Kusumi talks about the questions that came to her as a child because her parents were not married. Kani opened up in an interview with Dhanya Verma. Your friends at school will ask why you call your father names. I can't hear for a while. All that would have seemed irritating to me.

But when I was 10 years old, my friends who came home called Maitreyan and Jayashree Chechi. Not uncle or aunty. Kani Kushmi says that it has caused her trouble when the adults spoke judgmentally about Maitreya and Jayashree. They are not the right kind of people and said that the daughter is fine anyway. I was troubled until I was fourteen or fifteen years old. I found my father and mother to be truthful. It didn't feel fake. Not even because of my father and mother.

Another thing is that Maitreyan and Jayashree Chechi give opinions and take decisions without bias. I didn't get any special treatment because of my father and mother. If relatives or others say Maithrayen or Jayashree Chechi is not right, I have never felt that they are doing something wrong. We have space to ask. When our favorite aunties say that wearing Jayashree sarees is not right, earrings and necklaces and what not, I have been troubled thinking that they should like my father and mother too. But Kani Kusumi said that when she grew up, read and did drama, she realized that people are different.

