Gorgeous Samantha is undoubtedly the number one heroine in South film industry now. She has been ruling the roost in Telugu film industry and is climbing up the ladder in Kollywood at great speed. Samantha has bagged the offer of her life recently as she was roped into play the female lead in Shankar's next film starring Vikram.

Samantha is considered as the lucky heroine because most of her films are bilinguals. Even Shankar's project is a bilingual. She has Eega, Yeto Vellipoyindi Manasu that are also bilinguals to hit the screens soon. Mani Ratnam's Kadal is yet another bilingual starring Samantha. Besides these movies, Nandini Reddy's film with Siddharth will also release in Tamil says the buzz.

Samantha's ever growing popularity in Telugu is prompting the renowned Tamil filmmakers to choose her as the female lead so that the Telugu version too gets good craze. Samantha is yet to make her mark in Kollywood, but given her lineup of films it is just matter of time for her to become popular in Tamilnadu. Surely Sam has been giving other heroines run for their money.