Witty Telugu idioms in Oh! Baby will leave the audience in splits: Samantha

There’s no point sitting around complaining, carve your own path and make your own destiny, believes Samantha Akkineni. “You can’t sit around waiting for good scripts. You have to make things happen. I’m at a stage in my career where I want to take a bit more responsibility. I can’t keep doing the same things that I’ve been doing in the past,” says the actress, who has developed an uncanny knack of picking scripts with author-backed roles.
And she did take matters in her own hands when she decided to headline the remake of Korean hit

Miss Granny

. Titled

Oh! Baby

, the film tells the story of a 70-year-old woman who transforms into her 24-year-old self after being photographed in a studio. “Not often do you get to play a role like this. It was extremely challenging and yet so fulfilling. There’s a reason why this film has been remade in seven languages; it’s a classic. It’s also a film that I connect with in so many ways,” she gushes, explaining what drew her to the film. Samantha says the film’s USP is its comedy. “There’s a misconception that heroine-centric films are all melodramatic, but Oh! Baby is a full-length comedy and it will leave the audience in splits. The film is filled with lots of witty samethalu (idioms) and situational comedy, which will resonate with the Telugu audience,” she declares.
Apart from Samantha in the lead, Oh! Baby has a lot of female crew members led by director Nandini, and the actress says it was great to work with so many talented women. “Whether it’s male or female, it doesn’t really matter — what counts is capability. It was wonderful to work with Nandini Reddy. She had my back throughout the film and was like a sister to me,” says Samantha, signing off.
Produced by D Suresh Babu, Sunitha Tati, TG Vishwa Prasad and Hyunwoo Thomas Kim under

Suresh Productions

, Guru Films, People’s Media Factory and Kross Pictures, Oh! Baby releases today.