Samantha shared her mind on her super hit special song Oo Antava in Allu Arjun's Pushpa The Rule. It is known that Samantha did the special song right after her divorce from Naga Chaitanya and she sizzled red-hot in the song which turned out to be a rage across the world.
Samantha who is promoting her film Shaakuntalam which is releasing on 14 March 2023, shared the opposition she faced when she signed the song. She said ‘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.'"
She continued "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."
Apart from Shaakuntalam, Samantha is starring in Vijay Devarakonda's Kushi which is releasing on 1 September 2023.