Comedy is a difficult thing to do: Samantha Akkineni

The actress, who has a series of hit Telugu films in her kitty, gained a new perspective on actors who are masters of the comedy genre. 

Hyderabad: Telugu actress Samantha Akkineni realised how difficult it is to make people laugh only after she completed her 2019 film 'Oh Baby'. She said this after receiving the Best Actress in Leading Role (Telugu) Award at the South Indian International Movie Awards (SIIMA).

In the movie, Samantha plays the role of Baby, an aged woman, who magically becomes younger overnight. She then re-lives all her dreams and aspirations that she could not realise earlier in life.

Speaking about doing the film, Samantha said in a conversation with IANS: "I remember the reason why I wanted to do this film was that I wanted to break free from the heroine-oriented, social message-driven films. Comedy was very new to me but I always felt that I should give comedy a try and I am really glad that I did it because I had so much fun and I also realised that comedy is very, very difficult."