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3 weeks ago | gqindia.com | Ankur PathakAnkur Pathak

In the summer of 2007, on the humid, sprawling campus of the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune—a place that felt less like a school and more like an unfinished thought—an acting professor gave his students an assignment. Imagine a reunion, 15 years from now. Who are you? What have you become? Around the professor sat your usual FTII assortment—lanky, restless men and women in crumpled shirts, their heads full of borrowed dreams.

Feb 3, 2025 | gqindia.com | Ankur PathakAnkur Pathak

While the age of streaming has led to the collapse of regional boundaries and made our film industries more fluid, few actors have truly managed to cross over and succeed in the manner that Samantha Ruth Prabhu has. Whether it’s her earlier work in Tamil and Telugu films or her more recent turns in The Family Man’s second season and Citadel: Honey Bunny, she comes like aforce of nature, seamlessly weaving her physicality into her performances, blending grit, vulnerability and spunk.