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Kumara Sambhavam is a 1969 Indian Malayalam-language Hindu mythological film directed and produced by P. Subramaniam. Based on the epic poem of the poet Kalidasa of the same name, it stars Gemini Ganesan, Padmini, Srividya and Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair. [1] The film won the first ever Kerala State Film Award for Best Film. [2]
The play depicts Kalidasa as a court poet of Chandragupta who faces a trial on the insistence of a priest and some other moralists of his time. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Despite these criticisms, many regard Canto VIII as the pinnacle of Kalidasa's poetic mastery, and it is cited more frequently in major critical works like the Alaṃkārasutra and the ...
Kaviratna Kalidasa also used Kālidāsa's Shakuntala as a sub-plot in the movie.V. Shantaram made the Hindi movie Stree (1961) based on Kālidāsa's Shakuntala. R.R. Chandran made the Tamil movie Mahakavi Kalidas (1966) based on Kālidāsa's life. Chevalier Nadigar Thilagam Sivaji Ganesan played the part of the poet himself.
Kaalidas is a 2019 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by Sri Senthil. The film stars Bharath and Ann Sheetal, while Suresh Menon and Aadhav Kannadasan portray other pivotal roles. The film began production during October 2017 and completed its shoot by March 2018.
After the success of India's first sound film Alam Ara (1931), its director Ardeshir Irani wanted to venture into South Indian cinema. [4] In the same year, he chose H. M. Reddy, his former assistant, [5] to direct the first South Indian sound film, which would later become the first Tamil-Telugu film Kalidas, [a] based on the life of the Sanskrit poet and playwright Kalidasa.
The Great Poet Kalidas) is a 1966 Indian Tamil-language biographical film produced and directed by R. R. Chandran, starring Sivaji Ganesan. [2] It is based on the life of the poet Kalidasa. [3] The film was released on 19 August 1966. [4]
Kumara Sambhavam is not the translation of Kalidasa's work of the same name. But Nannechodudu has drawn inspiration from Kalidasa's work as well as other stories of the Saivaite literature. [5] Nannechoda’s Kumara Sambhavam is not a literal translation of Kalidasa's work but an original prabandha that draws on various Puranic sources. His ...
Dungan introduced several new techniques to Tamil cinema in this film. The scene where Shakuntala loses her ring was shot in slow motion through a glass tank filled with water. In his autobiography ( A Guide to Adventure: An Autobiography , Dorrance Publishing Company (2002)), Dungan wrote the following about his use of a European dancer for ...