‘Shaakuntalam’ has arrived on OTT. The Samantha Ruth Prabhu-Gunasekhar film is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Made on a high budget, the mythological film is likely to amass decent OTT viewership, given Samantha’s image and Prime’s reach. People minded watching it in theatres because the trailer was not inspiring enough. But OTT is where people catch movies with minimal expectations. A good chunk of audiences also like to hate-watch duds like ‘Shaakuntalam’.
Dil Raju, who took over the film and released it in April, burnt his hands by spending a bomb on acquiring and releasing it. As per his own admission, ‘Shaakuntalam’ hit him hard like no other film in 25 years.