Actor Sai Pallavi remembers getting beaten by her parents after her love letter was found

Sai Pallavi had written a love letter to a boy while she was in school which was found out by her parents and was later beaten. After that Pallavi never tried to write a letter again after she received a scolding from her parents for the first one she wrote. The actor recalled the incident in a recent conversation about the film with a YouTube channel.

Pallavi's latest film Virata Parvam sees her character Vennela risking her life in an attempt to deliver a letter to Rana Daggubati’s Ravi by his mother.

When asked if the letters she wrote in the film were real or if she was acting, to which the actor replied, “In this film, I wrote them as per the director’s instructions. But in real life, I wrote a letter just once. I wrote a letter to a boy, it was in my childhood. Maybe when I was in my 7th standard. I was caught. My parents hit me hard, a lot.”

When the same question was put to her co-star Rana Daggubati, who replied that he wrote one to his late grandfather-- filmmaker Daggubati Ramanaidu. He said, “Well, I wrote one to my Grandfather in Karamchedu in my childhood. That was all. I didn’t write letters to anyone after that.”

Virata Parvam released in theatres on June 17. The Telugu period romantic action drama film is written and directed by Venu Udugula, and produced by Suresh Productions and SLV Cinemas. Set in the Telangana region in the 1990s amidst the Naxalite movement, the film also stars Priyamani, Nandita Das, Naveen Chandra, Zarina Wahab, Easwari Rao, and Sai Chand.

The film couldn’t perform well at the box office and began streaming on Netflix on July 1.

Pallavi will be next seen in Gargi, her second theatrical release this year, where she will be playing a school teacher. The film is written and directed by Gautham Ramachandran and is scheduled to release on July 15.