Interesting facts about Samantha Akkineni, Manoj Bajpayee's arch-nemesis Raji in 'The Family Man 2'

Apart from being a great artist, Samantha also runs an NGO which she started in 2012. The non-governmental organization is called Pratyusha Support which provides assistance to women and children. She also provides aid to other NGOs for women and children as well as helps organisations that focus on welfare for the street animals. 

Samantha Akkineni's character in the new season of 'The Family Man' is named Raji, who besides playing Srikant's opponent, works in a garment factory. To showcase and make the role as realistic as possible, she actually learnt the art of weaving in a real garment factory and took aid from the workers to ace her role. 

Samantha went through intense and rigorous physical training and transformation to portray the role of Raji, as realistically as possible. She did hours of physical training every day and literally invested her blood and sweat for this character in the series. 
 

To understand and try to be as true to the character of Raji, Samantha did intense research on how she wanted the character to look on the screen. She locked herself in a room for three days and watched multiple documentaries to get under the skin of Raji. 

Samantha’s digital debut in The Family Man will see her in a totally new avatar. This is her first deglamorized role where she is doing hardcore action stunts and is tough enough to save herself and fight back with her enemy. For the first time in Samantha’s acting career, we will see her holding a gun.