Shaakuntalam

Why story was changed from original book by Mahakavi Kalidasa? Script writer thought he can do justice with story which Great Kalidasa missed, and with this sole of movie killed.

Shakuntala went to Shantanu with her son, and movie shows she went when she was pregnant.

Great Shantanu can't even think of insulting a woman that too when she was pregnant, but story did great injustice with history as well as movie.

Looks South cinema has started getting inspiration from Mumbai cinema, so sorry to say you are losing credibility when South cinema earned in last 2-3 years. Your choice, as this is your money and area.

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.

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.

King and hero of the film has not put enough efforts in his acting, he seems in n out from the character very often. VFX, props, artifacts are at its worst level, not convincing enough. As a audience you can find plenty of mistakes in props selections. Even villains of the story are funnily seems like actors from school drama. You can watch it once with less expectations. If you are already having high expectations then I'll suggest don't waste your time and do not spoil the very well known story of shankutala and King Dushyanth. That's from my side but as I need to add atleast 600 words I'm trying to met that condition.

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.