शाकुनतलम

Movie is Good but traditional ancient and natural love drama between hero and heroine was missing. I felt like movie was modern based drama. There is no ancient look on Samantha's appearance and that too she was sort of not performing well in relation to her expressions. Movie climax was good. Movie was simply ended. Totally the visuals of forest was not at all good and there is no life in that. Music is good. Way of movie presentation is not satisfied in my perspective. But Movie involves mostly hardwork of many people and I really appreciate that. Once again congratulations to this movie team.

I went to watch the movie with high expectations but the poor Execution of the movie didn't keep me tied up in the cinema hall. The story of Shakuntala, which I heard from my grandmother as a child, replaced the story I thought was very different, the graphics of the film were less, the film does not seem to be shot in the jungle from any angle. No one will believes that this movie came from South Industry where we have seen Bahubali, RRR, KGF etc movie which are very prominent VFX. Sorry to say, but Samantha for the character of Shakuntala is not a good choice. This movie is not for her. Thank you.

Need to research before portray the story. In movie, Shankuntla's friends were talking about Ramayana's characters but it happened much later.

In Ramayana as brahamrishi Viswamitra shared his past experiences with Shri Ram and Laxman ji that sensuality misguide male and can keep away from deeds by giving example of Menaka and his relationship. Menaka was the mother of Shakuntla and Vishwamitra was her father. Rishi after achieving the degree of Brahamrishi, invited for a meeting in devlok by Indra and Vashishtha. Later it was decided Vishwamitra will take test of king Harishchandra who was the greatest follower of truth. Between Harishchandra and lord Rama there is huge generation gap. King Dushyant was contemporary of Chanchu (3-4 generations next to King Harishchandra)

So this story is chronologically defective with many more respect.

Samantha is biggest drawback to this movie. Not much expressions and no glamour, her weak expressions leads to feel weakness to audiences. Dev Mohan is ok but not familiar face to Telugu audience another minus. Songs and BGM not apt truly speaking worst. It's a known story but director should show some intensity no elevations. No importance for few characters and poor graphics. Like Srinu Vaitla, it's better to stop makings films by Guna Shekar. Loosing all his reputation. It's time for Dil Raju to stop experiments. Better save money and invest on low budget movies like Balagam. Entire movie no scene creates impact to us.

Gunasekar should start making Telugu serials instead of making wasting top talent. Time and again he has proved off late that he has lost his touch to make good content. The movie fails in every department right from the inception to the screenplay to the CGI to the dialogues. Samantha's performance was good but her imperfect Telugu wasn't suitable for the role.

Allu Arjun's daughter did a really good job in the movie. She's the standout actor in the entire movie.

I literally stayed back in the theater for the AC so that I could avoid the extreme heat outside.

One big big headache of a movie !