

Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Akkineni in Ye Maaya Chesave. “I couldn’t speak a word in Telugu when I signed the film and I was too busy memorising my lines to even remember what I was doing in front of the camera,” Samantha once said in an interview.


The newcomer, who grew up in Pallavaram, became a heartthrob for Telugu moviegoers, but here’s a word of caution - Samantha will punch you if you tell her that her best performance was in Ye Maaya Chesave. In hindsight, it now feels like a scene straight out of a fairytale, whose appeal transcends the screen. It’s the kind of moment which refuses to leave your memory even after a decade - Samantha dressed in a blue sari, the slow motion walk, AR Rahman’s background score, and the way Naga Chaitanya looks at her as if he’s spellbound when she tells him that she lives in the house upstairs.everything that makes you want to believe in the magic of love. The same was true for millions of people who saw the film back in 2010. In Gautham Menon’s Ye Maaya Chesave, it’s love at first sight for Karthik (Naga Chaitanya) the moment he sees Jessie (Samantha) walking on the street.
