Samantha Prabhu Charged Rs 5 Crore For 'Oo Antava' Song From Allu Arjun's Pushpa, Claim Reports
Considering how Samantha, an already famous actress down south and started getting offers from Bollywood, it wasn't easy for the team of Pushpa to convince her.
After a professionally satisfying 2021 with The Family Man 2, Samantha Prabhu made heads turn for a special song in Pushpa. Oo Antava Oo Oo Antava in Pushpa has been grabbing eyeballs ever since it was released, and the enormous credit goes to Samantha.
The song became an instant favorite among the audience, and testimony to this fact is the Instagram reels you'd quickly discover.
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Considering how Samantha, an already famous actress down south started getting offers from Bollywood, it wasn't easy for the team of Pushpa to convince her.
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When the song was announced, reports were doing the rounds that Samantha charged a whopping Rs. 1.5 crores for her special dance number alongside Allu Arjun.
However, a recent report in iwmbuzz claims that Samantha charged Rs 5 crores for that 3-minute dance number.
A source was quoted in a report as saying,
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"Oh, she has charged a bomb for the Oo Antava dance number. Believe me, and she was very reluctant. The film¡¯s leading man Allu Arjun personally took the effort to convince her.¡±
The source further added that Samantha was reluctant to say yes.
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¡°They had to pay her close to Rs 5 crores for that 3-minute dance number. She had some reservations about some of the dance movements. But gradually, she got into the groove and didn¡¯t demand that even one step be changed.¡±, added the source.
Considering how we hear stories of women paid unfairly in the entertainment industry, Samantha's remuneration is a step in the right direction.
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