Samantha planning to take a long break

ActressSamantha Ruth Prabhu is reportedly planning to take a long break from work A report quoting sources close to her suggests she is going to take a year-long absence from the screen. She will soon be wrapping up shooting for her upcoming projects ‘Kushi’ and ‘Citadel’s Indian version. After which, she will not sign any new Telugu or Bollywood films.

The actor has reportedly also returned advance payments to producers she had previously taken money from for some upcoming projects, which she has now backed out from The actor is currently shooting the Telugu film ‘Kushi’ in its final shooting schedule Sam has also almost finished her shoot for her upcoming web series ‘Citadel ’

She wants to take a break to focus on her health and rejuvenate Last month, she visited Serbia’s Church of Saint Sava as she completed one year of her diagnosis of myositis, a rare autoimmune disease

Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap is all set to feature in director Lokesh Kanagaraj’s upcoming film ‘Leo’ starring actor Thalapathy Vijay in the lead Actor Sanjay Dutt will be seen as the antagonist in the film While details of Kashyap’s role are yet to be known, many are excited to see him on board. He also also the third director to join the project after Mysskin and Gautham Menon.

Samantha was last seen in the Telugu film ‘Shaakuntalam ’ In the film, Samantha played the central character Shakuntala, the daughter of Menaka and Viswamithra The project marked her maiden collaboration with director Gunasekhar The period drama, which was dubbed and released in Tamil as well as in Hindi, did not manage to gross over 10 crore in its opening weekend