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Sakuntalam

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Sakuntalam
Directed byDushyanth Sridhar
Produced byDushyanth Sridhar
Srinivas Kannaa
under (Desika Daya Productions)
StarringPayal Vijay Shetty
Shubham Jaibeer Sahrawat
Y Gee Mahendra
T V Varadarajan
Mohanram
CinematographyMagi Natesh
Edited byB Lenin
Music byRajkumar Bharathi(music Director), Sai Shravanam(Music producer)
Production
company
Desika Daya Productions
Release date
  • 12 August 2022 (2022-08-12)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageSanskrit

Sakuntalaṃ (Sanskrit Language: Śakuntalā) is a Sanskrit language historical film directed by Dushyanth Sridhar, a renowned speaker, writer and researcher on Indian scriptures. It is an adaptation of Kalidasa's work Abhijnana Shakuntalam.[1][2] The film is produced by Dushyanth Sridhar and Srinivas Kannaa under Desika Daya Productions. The movie stars debutants Shubham Sahrawat and Payal Shetty in the leading roles.[3] The movie was released on 12-Aug 2022 in BookMyShow Stream OTT platform commemorating the World Sanskrit Day.

Cast and Crew

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Apart from the Director and producer, there are some key people who are associated with this film project. Rajkumar Bharati, the great-grandson of Subramania Bharathi, has composed the music while Sai Shravanam, the sound recordist of the Academy Award-winning film Life Of Pi, is the music producer for the film. Two-time National Award-winner AS Lakshminarayan has done the audiography and the editing of the film is done by five-time National Award-winner B Lenin.[4] National Award Winner Pattanam Rasheed is the makeup artist in the film. The costume designer of the film is a Chennai-based textile designer Lakshmi Srinath.[1]

  • Payal Vijay Shetty as Sakuntala
  • Shubham Jaibeer Sahrawat as Dushyanta
  • Siri Chandrasekhar as Anasuya
  • Subhaga Santhosh as Priyamvada
  • Pavithra Srinivasan as Gautami
  • Y Gee Mahendra as Kanva
  • T V Varadarajan as Vaikhanasa
  • Mohanram as Durvasa
  • Renjith-Vijna as Vishwamitra-Menaka
  • Sanjeev S as Sharngarava
  • R Lakshminarayanan as Shardvata
  • Raaghav Ranganathan as Madhavya
  • C Lakshmi Kumar as Bhadrasena
  • S M Sivakumar as Somarata
  • Ramya Ramnarayan as Rajamata
  • Maanas Chavali as Syala
  • Govindasamy as Purusha
  • K Balaji and K Bharathwaj as Tapasvi
  • Shambhavi Jagadish as Tapasvini
  • Dwarkesh Srivatsan as Raivataka
  • Master Vishnu Kaushik as Bharata(Sarvadamana)
  • C S Karthic Kumar as Suta
  • Harish as Matali

Critical Response and Accolades

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At the Rajasthan International Film Festival 2022 held at Jodhpur, the movie won the Special Viewers' choice award for Best Regional Feature Film.[5] Tejas Punia in Bollywoodlocha awarded 4 stars for the movie while saying, "Sridhar has made his debut movie in a very beautiful manner, no matter how many times you have read this work, you will want to watch this movie".[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b Ramanujam, Srinivasa (3 November 2021). "If you can watch 'Squid Game', you can watch a Sanskrit film: Dushyanth Sridhar on 'Sakuntalam'". The Hindu.
  2. ^ "Dushyanth Sridhar helms a Sanskrit film based on Kalidasa's Sakuntalam - Times of India". The Times of India.
  3. ^ Vijaykumar, Vaishali (27 October 2021). "Stepping up for Sanskrit on the sliver screen". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  4. ^ "If you happen to can watch 'Squid Recreation', you possibly can watch a Sanskrit movie: Dushyanth Sridhar on 'Sakuntalam'". Indie Times. 3 November 2021.
  5. ^ "RIFF | Rajasthan International Film Festival, RIFF Jaipur, Jaipur RIFF, riff 2023, 1st to 5th Feb 2023 at Jaisalmer, Rajasthan largest Film Festival in JAIPUR, JODHPUR, JAISALMER, Rajasthan, INDIA".
  6. ^ "गौरवशाली इतिहास की गाथा 'शाकुन्तलम' में". 17 August 2022.
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