Riddhi
Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s dance number ‘O Antava’ was released last year and became the biggest hit ever.
However, did you know that Samantha shot for this hit during her separation from Naga Chaitanya?
As per reports, Samantha’s friends, family, and well-wishers didn’t want the actor to do the song as it was offered to her just after she announced her separation from her former husband, Naga Chaitanya.
While talking about the song, Samantha said, “When I was offered ‘O Antava’, it was in the middle of the separation (from Naga). After the announcement came, every well-wisher and every family member was like ‘You will sit at home, you will not do an item song just when you have announced the separation’. Even my friends, who always encouraged me to challenge myself, told me, ‘Do not do an item song’. But I was like, ‘Ok, I am doing it.‘”
“I just thought, ‘why should I hide?’ I did not do anything wrong. I was not going to wait for all of the trolling, abuse, and hate to go away and slowly creep back in like someone who committed a crime. I was not going to do that. I gave my marriage 100%, it did not work out. But, I was not going to beat myself up and feel guilty for something I didn’t do,” Samantha added.
The song was an opportunity for Samantha to do something that she has never done before.
“I loved the lyrics of the song and I loved how it was positioned. I had not done an item song, and I love exploring different characters. I looked at the song just as another character and not as an item number. It just came from a place of me doing something new and nothing else,” Samantha concluded.
