Samantha is bearing the wrath of the distributors as they feel she is in favour of video piracy. The actress acted in a dual role in her recently released film '10 Endrathukkula' with Chiyaan Vikram in the lead. Directed by Vijay Milton, she appears in a villainous role of an upper-caste leader where she is seen puffing a cigarette. A photo of the actress taking a puff has now gone viral on the internet. Some of her fans were excited with the picture and congratulated her on Twitter, tagging her on a pirated print. Not knowing it was a screenshot from a pirated print, the actress re-tweeted the photo saying she loved her evil act. She wrote, “Who knew playing evil could be such fun! Loved it!” This did not go down well with the distributors of the film as the movie is doing average at the box-office.
A distributor said, “At a time when biggies like Rajinikanth and Vijay have openly stated that they would never feature in a scene where they have to smoke, especially after they received flak for doing it onscreen for Baba and Thuppakki respectively. Samantha's smoking act is really unfortunate. And on top of that she has also proudly put the pirated picture of her smoking on her Twitter account which will misguide many of her female fans.”
