Sai Pallavi Says Parents Hit Her "Hard" For Writing A Love Letter In Seventh Grade

Actor Sai Pallavi recently revealed that her parents hit her after they found out that she had written a love letter to a boy in school when she was in seventh grade. The actor was recently seen in the Telugu film Virata Parvam alongside Rana Daggubati,

Last year, the actor was seen in two films- Love Story and Shyam Singha Roy, and was praised for her performances in both of them.

In an interview with the YouTube channel My Village Show recently, the actor was asked about the letters her character Vennela writes to a Naxalite named Ravi (a man she idolises and loves) in Virata Parvam, following which the actor opened up about her real-life experience with writing a love letter and how it got her into a lot of trouble while growing up.

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Sai Pallavi Beaten By Parents For Writing A Love Letter

Pallavi ">revealed that the letters she wrote in the film were as per the director’s instructions, but she had written a letter to a boy when she was in school. She said, “I wrote a letter just once. I wrote a letter to a boy, it was in my childhood. Maybe when I was in my seventh standard. I was caught. My parents hit me hard, a lot.”

Sai Pallavi’s Virata Parvam co-star Rana Daggubati was asked the same question and said that he had written a letter to his late grandfather, filmmaker Daggubati Ramanaidu. The actor said, “I wrote one to my grandfather in Karamchedu in my childhood. That was all.” He added that he did not write letters after that.

The film Virata Parvam has written and directed by Venu Udugula. The period romance drama film had a theatrical release on June 17 this year. It is set in the 1990s in the Telangana region during the Naxalite movement. Pallavi’s character Vennela is actually based on the life and death of a girl named Thumu Sarala, a 16-year-old from the Warangal district. She had quit her studies and enrolled herself in the Peoples War Group and joined the Naxalites. Sarala was killed a month later by the Naxals under mysterious circumstances.

Virata Parvam stars Sai Pallavi, Rana Daggubati, Nandita Das, Naveen Chandra, Zarina Wahab, Sai Chand, Easwari Rao, and Priyamani in key roles.