Credit goes to Trisha..

Samantha, who won the FilmFare award for her performance in the Telugu film Ye Maya Chesave, is happy to have received the coveted award. The actress says that the credit for the award should go to Trisha as she admired her as the role model in portraying Jessie in Ye Maya Chesave.

Interestingly, Ye Maya Chesave is the Telugu version of Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya that had Trisha and Silambarasan in the lead.

Samantha says that she visualized Trisha’s performance in VTV and reprised the role. She also thanked Gautham Menon, the film’s director, for giving the character of her life.

It may be mentioned here that Gautham is now directing the Hindi version of Vinnaithandi Varuvaaya with Amy Jackson in the lead.

Bollywood Ticket?

Samantha Ruth Prabu who debuted with Gowtham Menon's Ye Maya Chesave has been signed up for a Hindi flick. The actress is excited to bag the offer to star in Rohit Shetty's Bol Bachchan, an upcoming comedy starring Abhishek Bachchan and Ajay Devgn.

Samantha says that director Rohit Shetty approached Samantha with the role because he needed a south Indian face to play that particular character.

Samantha, who is currently busy with the shooting of Dookudu and has Eega in her kitty right now. She expressed her happiness over the way her career had shaped up and is looking to make it big in Bollywood too.

Daring & Dashing

The shooting of Mahesh Babu’s ‘Dhookudu’ is presently progressing in Hyderabad with some action scenes that would come before the interval being shot at the Chiran Fort.

Mahesh Babu’s character traits in the film is doing and getting what he wants and at the same time very easy going nature. Hence the tagline for the film is ‘Daring and Dashing’.

With Samantha cast opposite Mahesh, Sreenu Vytla is directing 'Dhookudu' under the banned 14 Reels Entertainment with SS Thaman scoring the music for the film.

Gowtham, Jiiva and A R Rahman

Gautham Menon’s next Tamil project will be with Jiiva and pairing up opposite him will be Samantha.

The director has decided to direct an action-romantic flick and has found Jiiva to be the most suitable for this. This venture will go on floors once Gautham is done with the Hindi version of Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya that is currently shot in Chennai titled 'Premkatha' starring Prateik Babbar and Amy Jackson reprising the roles originally played by STR and Trisha.

Manoj Pramahamsa may wield the camera for this venture too while Gautham has decided to retain Rajeevan (art director) and Anthony (editing) for the production. The icing on the cake for this venture is the Oscar Winner A R Rahman, who has been roped in to score the music for this flick.