Samantha Akkineni wraps up shooting for ‘Shakuntalam’ on an emotional note

Actress Samantha Akkineni, who recently made her Hindi debut with ‘The Family Man 2’, has wrapped up the shooting of Telugu mythological drama ‘Shakuntalam’. The actress wrote a long, emotional message on her social media accounts and thanked director Guna Shekhar for ‘making my dream come true’. Samantha tweeted, “And this is a wrap on ‘Shakuntalam’!! This film will stay with me for a lifetime. As a little girl I believed in fairy tales… her “fairy godfather”.

In another tweet, she seemed excited about her role: “When he narrated this film to me, I was immediately taken to a most beautiful world… Shakuntalam ki world… Aisi world like no other . But I was nervous and scared. Was it possible for us to create such beauty on celluloid??

Saying goodbye to the film, the actress ended her emotional tweet saying, “This absolutely incredible human being @Gunasekhar1 sir as he has created a world that has exceeded all my expectations. My inner child dances with joy. Used to be.”

‘Shakuntalam’ marks the debut of actor Allu Arjun’s four-year-old daughter Allu Arha. It marks the entry of the fourth generation of the Allu clan into the Telugu film industry.

Meanwhile, talking about ‘The Family Man 2’, since its launch on Amazon Prime Video on June 4, the new season has received an unprecedented response from the audience. The series saw Samantha Akkineni in her first Hindi role, as a Sri Lankan Tamil suicide bomber named Raazi, and brought back Priyamani, Sharib Hashmi and Sharad Kelkar in familiar roles.

Directed by Raj and DK, ‘The Family Man 2’ ranks fourth on IMDb’s list of most popular shows. However, the series faced outrage from some sections ahead of its release, over allegations that it portrayed Tamils ​​in an “objectionable manner”.

(with IANS inputs)