Samantha

Host: Welcoming Samantha Ruth Prabhu in conversation with me only on Bollywood Bubble, and this is a conversation that I've wanted to have for the longest time, and thank you for doing this. Despite, I know the kind of health issues that you are braving through to do this, to be very honest. I understand it a little more than maybe others because I've been through the same.

But honestly speaking, Samantha, thank you. Thank you for doing this, Samantha Ruth Prabhu: You know, I must thank you because you kept me relevant for eight months. I remember you badgering every single guest of yours, "One word about Samantha."

Yes. "One word about." I was like, oh, my God. Poor things, they don't want to say one word about Samantha, stop badgering them.

Host: No, I think they always wanted to say something. I have to tell you there's a, I there was a selfish, reason behind doing that as well, because I didn't tell you also till, like, two weeks ago, that I was actually diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder myself. So, every attack on you felt a little more personal.

I would have come to that anyway. So when people were giving you love, I wanted you to feel love because, my doctor just told me that, you know, you should not stress. Emotional lows is something that you need to avoid, and I felt like from a distance, if I could just make you feel that you're loved by everybody around, that's what I can do for Thank you.

So I just did that. Samantha Ruth Prabhu: Thank you. I felt it. I felt it a lot.

Host: I love you. Samantha Ruth Prabhu: Thank you. Host: But Samantha, this movie is special. When I watched Yashoda, it was a very different kind of an experience.

You spearheaded a movie, and a, and a, and a very poignant one. This is an epic, and throughout this, you know, you've braved through so many personal battles. Was it difficult to just dabble between being an artist, being a human being, and to make it happen?

Yeah. Samantha Ruth Prabhu: I think, hmm, it, yeah, it has been one personal struggle after another. But I've never asked, "Why me?" Because if Mm.

Had asked God, "Why me," then I would also have to ask him, "Why me" for all of the good things that I have. Mm. For all of the love, for all of the appreciation. So it's not fair that I ask, "Why me?"

But I also believe that we learn most from our lows, our dark times. Mm. And I believe that there's something to learn through this. Host: Your Instagram bio is something that I swear by.

Samantha Ruth Prabhu: I never thought that I would be living it every single day. Yeah. Damn, I would never have put it up if it was gonna be so true.

I think you manifested it, I manifested that damn thing. Host: How difficult was it to shoot the entire process, like, of Shakuntalam is, it's a difficult film. You have to have mudras, you have to have moves while you're battling myositis.

It's a difficult, No, Samantha Ruth Prabhu: I did not get diagnosed, Okay. During Shakuntalam. It wasn't during Shakuntalam or Yashoda as well. Okay. It was after that.

So, this, when I was, I was having personal struggles of another Yeah. During Shakuntalam. Yes. Yeah. So it wasn't.

Physically, I was fine. Host: You have been a face of a big change. Whenever I speak to, like you said, a lot of your peers, from that part of the world also, which has now become pan-India, thankfully, we have got acceptance, and thankfully you've been one of the biggest faces.

Because with Family Man too, I think there was a huge acceptance also. Most of them have always appreciated and acknowledged your bravado in spearheading that movement, in a way. I don't think you ever settled for that whole thing that I would play the typical heroine.