Shaakuntalam

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.

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 !

In my opinion not real, a lot of things including facial expressions looked fake. Disappointed. I never taught someone could act so fake n looked obvious on screen. Chemistry was not there, storyline could have been more better. I found stories in cut like manner than a storytelling manner. At some places I could not relate one scene to another.

I saw better movies. The most irony of all was the war scene it was so fake and boring till I had to fast forward. I found the dance choreography didn't fit the song and it's meaning. In overall a movie to watch to pass time bt don't keep much hope as u would be sad.

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.

Gunashekar brings on screen the tale of Abhignyana Shakuntalam and completely fails in doing justice. He is bogged down by his own outdated narrative. While narrating a known story, there should be a tad bit of freshness to it at the very least which was completely missing here like the non-existing chemistry between Samantha and Dev Mohan. The only believable character turned out to be Durvasa Muni played by Mohan Babu.

The narrative is poor and slow paced along with the tacky visuals, the film simply tests the patience of the viewers who might even find the dialect bit too hard to digest. This adaptation would work only if the audience buy into the premise and connect to the characters. The songs were forgettable. The introduction of the villains and the final battle simply prolonged the story. The VFX was simply that below par.

As far as the performances go, Samantha as Shakuntala and Dev Mohan as Dushyant have tried to be as earnest as they can but they simply don't fit these characters to make their love story believable or even have any impact. The supporting cast especially the ones like Shiva Balaji used for comic relief, went over the top. I am harsh but even if I try to be lenient, there isn't a single thing in this film that stands out.