Samantha Prabhu who has her latest film Shaakuntalam releasing soon, in an exclusive interview with Shravan Shah, Content Head, MissMalini spoke about how she had to be trained to pick up mannerisms for the film. In the latter part of the interview, she also speaks about a difficult part in her life, her divorce, and how her friends and family responded to her putting out the song Oo Antava post-divorce.
The conversation started off with Shravan asking her about a video on her Youtube channel, which grabbed a lot of eyeballs. It was the making of the Oo Antava song. With over 100 million views, it was surely a surprise for Samantha. But Shravan then points out how great of a video it was, because it shows how much went behind the making of the song. When asked about whether she has been asked to not take up certain projects, she then moves to tell him, how friends and family, who had always supported her in every step of her journey, were extremely against her song coming out just after her divorce.
She says,
While I was offered Oo Antava, was in the middle of all of the separation. The announcement came and every friend of mine every well-wisher, and my family were like ‘you sit at home, you will not do an item song now just after you announced a separation and you will say no to this’. Even my friends who usually encourage me and say go for it do Super Deluxe, go challenge yourself, even they said no, do not do an item. So it’s like okay I’m doing it because I just thought that why should I hide? I mean I did not do anything wrong why should I hide? I was not going to go into hiding and wait for all of the trolling and abuse to go away and then slowly creep back in like some someone who had 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 that I didn’t do.
It was a very difficult time for Samantha, but she fought right back. I cannot imagine Oo Antava without her, and I’m so glad she took the decision to go forward with it.
Watch the full conversation below…