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Samantha’s NGO To Raise Funds By Auctioning Items From Iconic Films

Actress Samanth Ruth Prabhu’s NGO Prathyusha Support will auction items used by actors in iconic roles, to raise funds to provide medical support for underprivileged women and children.

“We have been working hard and @PratyushaOrg and I are beyond excited to announce a grand auction of items from iconic films used by your favourite stars. Details of the auction will be announced soon,” the actress posted on Twitter. She also tweeted out a picture one of the items which will be auctioned –  A police uniform worn by actor Pawan Kalyan in the Tollywood movie Gabbar Singh.

The actress, along with three of her friends who are doctors, started the NGO in 2012. In 2013, she had auctioned some of her personal items from movies to raise funds for Prathyusha. In 2015, the NGO had joined hands with Vijayawada hospitals and a UK hospital to provide cardiac surgeries to 15 children in the city.

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Samantha, who rose to prominence in south Indian cinema with movies like Eega, Kaththi, Ne Thane En Ponvasantham and Theri, was last seen in Junior NNTR’s Telugu film Janatha Garage. Recently, she had spoken out on the dearth of female-oriented roles in south Indian cinema. She had tweeted that she realised “… just how hard it is to get a meaningful role for a heroine in the south”. And added, “I haven’t signed as many films as I’d like to because there are no good roles. As disheartening as it is to say”.