Shakuntala - First Week Review!

Story Adaptation: Shakuntala was the daughter of Vishwamitra and Menka. The story is of King Dushyanta, who was the founder of the Paurav Dynasty, and Shankuntala and how they meet in the forest and fall in love with each other. However, soon after their marriage, Dushyanta goes back to his kingdom as he has forgotten all about his wife due to the curse of Saint Durvasa, which happened when Shakuntala was dreaming of her husband. One day, Saint Durvasa made it to the ashram, but Shakuntala lost in her thoughts about Dushyanta, fails to greet him properly. Incensed by this, the Saint curses Shakuntala, saying that the person she was dreaming of, would forget about her altogether. But due to a royal ring given by King Dushyant to Shankuntala, she helps him remember their love story even after many years.
Set and ambiance:  If we leave out the spoon and dish shown while feeding milk to baby Shakuntala, rest of the sets looked fake and not even close to that era. They are beautiful to watch, but gives you the feeling of a fairy tale rather than Kalidasa's divine love tale. Shakuntala is a story which existed before Mahabharata times, but in clothes they looked inspired from Buddhist monks. The most hilarious part was when they showed Saint Shatanand packing his belongings while leaving the ashram on the orders of Saint Karnav. He also packs his book, but in those times manuscripts used to exist and were written on tree's bark, not on paper. Paper was discovered by Chinese people, many centuries later and not by Saint Karnav or Shatanand.