Gautam Menon who promised chance for Samantha in a Vijay Starrer dropped her out as shooting was about to commence.  Samantha took up a small role in Gautam Menon’s ‘ViNNai Thaandi Varuvaaya’.

In the Telugu remake of the movie she was the heroine.  Following this, Gautam gave Samantha a small role in ‘Nadunisi NaaigaL’.  Now Gautam is directing movie ‘Nee Thanae En Ponvasantham’ in three languages.  In all the three, Samantha is the heroine.  Thus, Samantha has turned out Gautam’s favorite heroine.

Rumors went abuzz regarding friendship between the two.  Reports started spreading that Samantha turned cross at Gautam for pairing her up with only young heroes.  As is the situation, the movie crew announced that Samantha would pair up with Vijay in ‘Yohan adhdhiyaayam’. 

The movie shooting for ‘Yohan’ is to begin the next month.  But the unit has confirmed that Samantha is not in the movie.  It is reported that Gautam made the move to prevent repeatedly casting same actress in his movies.