If you can watch ‘Squid Game’, you can watch a Sanskrit film: Dushyanth Sridhar on ‘Sakuntalam’

Dushyanth Sridhar channels his research on Indian scripture into a movie in Sanskrit, Sakuntalam

“Why not Sanskrit?”

, a Bangalore-based speaker and researcher on Indian scriptures, will soon be posing this question to audiences across the globe when his Sakuntalam releases. An adaptation of Kalidasa’s Abhijnana Sakuntalam, Dushyanth hopes to recreate a historical world in his upcoming Sanskrit film.

“If people can watch a Korean series called Squid Games, they will surely understand Sanskrit and warm up to Sakuntalam,” says a confident Dushyanth, who was recently in the city to supervise post-production work.