Samantha Akkineni opens up about her experience of visiting an old age home for her next film Oh Baby

Samantha Akkineni will be seen playing two shades of Swathi-- one of an old woman, and the other of a younger woman in her upcoming film, Oh Baby. For her role, the Majili actress visited old age home.

Updated on Jun 09, 2019  |  01:41 PM IST |  4.7M
Samantha Akkineni opens up about her experience of visiting an old age home for her next film Oh Baby
Samantha Akkineni opens up about her experience of visiting an old age home for her next film Oh Baby

Samantha Akkineni is super excited about her upcoming film Oh Baby and is leaving no stone unturned for the film’s promotion.  Ever since the teaser of Samantha Akkineni starrer Oh! Baby was released fans can’t keep calm to know what’s in the store for them. Oh Baby is the story about the life of Savitri, a 70-year-old single mother (played by actress Lakshmi) while Sam will be seen playing the role of Swathi. Samantha will be seen playing two shades of Swathi-- one of an old woman, and the other of a younger woman. For her role, the Majili actress visited old age home. 

Samantha shared about her visit to an old age home. She wrote on Instgram, ‘BABY’ is an emossssooooonnnn... #ohbaby releasing July 5th .. @nandureddyy .. I grew up without grandparents so my director took me to an old age home.. I met the most wonderful people . Their stories stayed with me through the shooting of the film .. it surprised me how childlike they were .. I put all that my mind could absorb into ‘Bebakka’ . Will watch the movie on the first day with them and hope that they approve of me." 

Oh! Baby is the official remake of South Korean drama Miss Granny and it also stars Lakshmi, Rao Ramesh, Naga Shourya and Rajendra Prasad among others. Directed by BV Nandini Reddy, Oh Baby is all set to release on July 5th.


‘BABY’ is an emossssooooonnnn... #ohbaby releasing July 5th .. @nandureddyy .. I grew up without grandparents so my director took me to an old age home.. I met the most wonderful people . Their stories stayed with me through the shooting of the film .. it surprised me how childlike they were .. I put all that my mind could absorb into ‘Bebakka’ . Will watch the movie on the first day with them and hope that they approve of me

Meanwhile,  Samantha Akkineni will also be seen in a cameo role in Nagarjuna starrer Manmadhudu 2. The actress wrapped up the shooting of the film last month in Portugal. 


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