Samantha has her hands full

After four consecutive hits in Tollywood, actress Samantha, who is back in business after a long hiatus, is still in huge demand. Despite the actress losing a few projects due to prolonged illness, her kitty boasts of a slew of big ticket projects. She is paired opposite Mahesh Babu in Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu, stars with Siddharth in Nandini Reddy���s next, will be seen romancing Naga Chaitanya in Autonagar Surya and also stars in a bi-lingual opposite Nani titled Yeto Vellipoyindi Manasu.
Apart from these projects, the actress has signed a few more big films. She is all set to play leading lady opposite NTR Jr in his forthcoming film directed by Harish Shankar of Gabbar Singh fame. Confirming the news, the director told us, ���Yes, we zeroed in on Samantha for the main lead.��� Harish reveals that the shooting of the film will start from the second week of December.
The other two big projects which will start soon are one opposite Pawan Kalyan, directed by Trivikram Srinivas and another one is in Tamil opposite Surya directed by Linguswamy. Apart from these, the actresses has already signed a film that stars three generations of the Akkineni family ��� Naga Chaitanya, Nagarjuna and Nageswara Rao. ���She will play the lead opposite Naga Chaitanya,��� said Nagarjuna about the film. Samantha will also star in the debut of producer Bellamkonda Suresh���s son, to be directed by VV Vinayak.
When contacted, the elusive Samantha told us, ���I don���t want to talk about my new projects until the first day of shoot starts, but I can say that I have some exciting projects lined up in the coming months and I���m thrilled!���