Samantha sold vegetables in Chennai Jam Bazaar to help the poor people

Samantha has been the number one heroine of Tollywood. Even after marriage she has broken the myth of married heroines being failures by scoring hat-trick of hits, Rangasthalam, Mahanati and Irumbu Thirai, and she is now expecting the release of two of her movies on the same day, Seema Raja with Siva Karthikeyan and directed by Ponram, and the Tamil /Telugu bilingual thriller U turn directed by Pawan Kumar, both releasing on Vinayakar Chathurthi eve of September 13.

Besides being in cinema, Samantha has been a socially responsible actress who has been doing many charitable activities through her trust named Pratyusha foundation, and especially she has been focusing on kids with heart related issues, Recently Samantha had been to Chennai Jam Bazaar, where she had sold vegetables. Seeing this there was a huge crowd in Triplicane and vegetables were sold out in no time, and it was said that samantha will use the money collected for poor people’s needs.

Interestingly, Samantha Akkineni Seema Raja, starring Sivakarthikeyan in the titular role, is also set to release on the same day as U Turn. The trailer of U Turn was released recently to a very positive response. It also stars Aadhi Pinisetty, Rahul Ravindran and Bhumika Chawla among others in important roles.

U Turn is the official remake of Kannada hit film of the same name. Director Pawan Kumar, who made the original, has helmed the remake in Tamil and Telugu. The film is gearing up for a worldwide release on September 13, coinciding with the Ganesh Chaturthi festival.

Samantha Akkineni seems to be quite confident about U Turn striking a chord with the audience. The film follows an investigation led by a female journalist relating to an accident-prone junction, where people die when they try to violate traffic rules. It was a career-defining film for Shraddha Srinath, who played the lead role in the original film.