Samantha recalls 'shaking' on Oo Antava sets: Who thinks of me for a special song?
Actor Samantha says she was 'shaking' out of nervousness on the sets of the 'Pushpa' song 'Oo Antava' because she had not done anything like that before. In an interview recently, she once again opened up on her experience of shooting the song in front of '500 junior artistes'. The 38-year-old also said she was surprised about performing a dance number because people often didn't think of her looking 'really hot' when she was popular for her 'girl-next-door' roles.advertisementSamantha told Gallata Plus: "As much as people love to think that I do things to make statements for other people, I do it to challenge myself. Throughout my life, I have never considered myself a good-looking, hot woman. I think 'Oo Antava' was an opportunity for me to see if I could fake it and pull it off."She added that she took that dance number alongside Allu Arjun as a 'challenge'. "I had never done that before. So it was honestly a challenge to myself, and I was only going to do it once because I just accepted it as a challenge," she said.
Samantha explained, "Who thinks of me for a special song, and that too, one in which I had to look really hot? I was always playing the cute, bubbly, girl-next-door. It wasn't about the dance, it was about the attitude - the fierce, confident woman who is always comfortable in her sexuality - all of these, which I am not."advertisementThe actor further shared that she looked at it as an opportunity and immediately grabbed it even when she was extremely nervous about it. "People around me said, absolutely not. I was like, I liked the lyrics, I just felt nobody had offered me something like this before, and I looked at it as an opportunity. I was shaking in front of 500 junior artists before the first shot. I was so nervous," she concluded. Samantha danced her heart out, looked sensuous, and performed well with Allu Arjun's Pushpa in the number. It topped the chartbusters' lists everywhere that year, and remains one of the most talked-about dance numbers in a pan-India film.Must Watch
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