Samantha Ruth Prabhu says ‘Oo Antava’ came to her in ‘middle of separation’ with Naga Chaitanya, family told her not to do ‘item song’: ‘I gave 100% to my marriage but…’

Samantha Ruth Prabhu's friends, family and well-wishers didn't want the actor to do the song 'Oo Antava' as it was offered to her just after she announced her separation from former husband, Naga Chaitanya.

By: Entertainment Desk

New Delhi | March 29, 2023 10:19 AM IST

Samantha Ruth Prabhu featured in Pushpa The Rise's special song 'Oo Antava Oo Oo Antava.' (Photo: Samantha Ruth Prabhu/Instagram)

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Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s dance number “Oo Antava Oo Oo Antava” from Allu Arjun and Rashmika Mandanna’s Telugu blockbuster Pushpa The Rise became a chartbuster, and she ‘was applauded for her performance in the song. But 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 former husband, Naga Chaitanya.

Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Ruth Prabhu took to social media in October 2021 that they are parting ways as husband and wife. After their separation, Samantha told Karan Johar on Koffee With Karan season 7 that her separation from Naga was acrimonious.

While speaking to Miss Malini during the promotions of Shaakuntalam, Samantha shared she was in no mood to sit at home after her separation as she didn’t do anything wrong. She 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.'”

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She added that she was not going to hide like someone who has committed a crime. “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 shared.

Watch Samantha Ruth Prabhu in Pushpa The Rise song ‘Oo Antava’

For her, the song was an opportunity to do something she didn’t do before. Sharing what convinced her to do the song, Samantha said, “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.”

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Samantha also mentioned Allu Arjun helped her ‘big time’ during the shoot of ‘O Anatava’ as she didn’t want to give the song a ‘stereotypical’ treatment of an item song.

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