Actress Sameera Reddy has flatly denied reports of an affair with NTR Jr, citing them as the malicious intent of someone who is trying to spoil her image.

According to Reddy, NTR Jr is nothing more than a co-star. "Besides shooting for a Telugu film together, we didn't even socialise as friends," Reddy recently confessed in a section of the press.

She also added that the rumours had severely disturbed her family life. "Hyderabad is a very close-knit city and such news spreads like wildfire," she said.

Reddy is doing another film down south opposite Chiranjeevi, besides four Hindi films.