Sandhya to Saroja Devi, 7 actresses who played Shakuntala before Samantha Ruth Prabhu
Jayshree had played Shakuntala in the 1943 film titled Shakuntala which was first film to be produced under V.Shantaram's banner Rajkamal kalamandir, and one of earliest films to be screened in US.
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Surabhi Kamala Bai had played Shakuntala in the 1932 film when director Sarvottam Badami adapted the book for his movie.
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Sandhya had played Shakuntala 18 years later in the film Stree by V.Shantaram. The film was India's official entry for Oscars that year.
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M S Subbalakshmi Shakuntala
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The 1966 Telugu film based on Shakuntala's tale had famous actress Saroja Devi paired opposite screenlegend N.T.Rama Rao.
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K.R.Vijaya played Shakuntala again a year later in 1966, in a Malayalam film titled Shakuntalam.
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17 years later, Kannada cinema had its first representation of Shakuntala, with Jayaprada essaying the part.