Samantha was never known for her acting prowess, she started of as a second lead and then was only for glamour, but she definitely has great screen presence. it is only in the last couple of years that she is even being taken seriously as an actor, she is self made and has built excellent rapport and professionalism with actors and directors. She also has monetised her social media which is fantastic.
She is definitely is not the best in fact even in family man she was good but not mind-blowing ,the fact that she could stand on her own with someone like Manoj and get noticed is good.
Her marriage with Chay definitely helped her as she had the backing of 2 powerful families, however it was mutually beneficial for both of them , Chaitanya in fact became more popular after his whole sync up with Samantha of course they milked the whole cute couple and made quite a good fortune.
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