We take a deep dive into Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s professional and public life as she celebrates her 35th birthday, as she continues to reach new heights with each passing year.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s birthday is today, and she is 35 years old. She should have reached the end of her career as a leading lady, according to conventional and traditional thinking. It’s time for her to make way for the younger women who are vying for the affections of the much older male celebrities. But, fortunately, we live in unusual times. Samantha’s predecessors, such as Trisha and Nayanthara, have debunked the concept that a starring lady has a finite shelf life and prepared the way for her to keep her hard-won position in the industry.
Samantha’s last 12 years in the workforce have felt like a warm-up. It gave her the recognition and clout she needed to shatter further glass ceilings. In the grand scheme of things, her career has only just begun. Yes, since her debut with Ye Maaya Chesave, she’s come a long way (2010). But it appears that she has just recently begun to realise her full potential.
Trisha was all the rage with the release of Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa. Everyone was enamoured with Trisha’s portrayal of a highly complicated heartbreaker with a basic sense of style. In addition, she gave one of her best performances in the picture. Samantha, who played Trisha in the Telugu remake, Ye Maaya Chesave, was a newcomer at the time. It’s difficult to say whether Samantha’s performance in the film sparked a pop-cultural tsunami as big as Trisha’s, at least outside of the united Andhra Pradesh at the time.
Saw a poster of a yet to be released Telugu film.Not only is it deeply regressive,but it’s point is actually that it is deeply regressive
— Samantha (@Samanthaprabhu2) December 16, 2013
Baana Kaathadi was her first full-fledged Tamil film role. People may have noticed her portrayal of a young girl who is naïve, vulnerable, and hopelessly romantic. She appeared to be at ease with the part. Eega, directed by SS Rajamouli, gave her her first major break. She reprised her role as Bindu, an innocent, vulnerable, and hopelessly passionate girl who needed to be saved from the lustful and malevolent Sudeep. Her beloved was murdered, and his ghost now inhabits the body of a housefly and rescues her. Her performance in Neethaane En Ponvasantham, on the other hand, was underappreciated. Gautham Menon’s take on modern love, in fact, deserved a better reception from the public and critics at the time.
Samantha’s career is summed up in a way by the song ‘Oo Antava.’ The song is regarded as an anti-item song since it shames guys who present a decent and clean image in public but behave badly against women in private. The men in the song are so engrossed in their revelry and mesmerised by the dancing girls that they miss the words slamming the problematic male gaze. Samantha, like the girl in that song, is defying the system by succeeding within it. And the question is whether or not the system is aware of it. Or it’s too caught up in denial.