Actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s upcoming Telugu film ‘Shaakuntalam’ has been postponed by a couple of months. The movie was supposed to be released in cinemas on February 17. The filmmakers confirmed that the film will now hit screens worldwide on April 14. The makers unveiled a new poster with a release date without revealing the exact reason for the postponement.
In 2020, speaking at the launch of the movie recently, Samantha said that this would be her dream project and role. The trailer of Shaakuntalam was released in January. Speaking at the event, an emotional Samantha said her love for cinema hasn’t changed amid all the recent struggles. She said she gathered all her courage to attend the event. In her speech, Samantha spoke about how her love for cinema hasn’t changed amid all her life struggles in the recent past. She was talking about her rare auto-immune disease called Myositis, which she has been diagnosed with since last November.
“No matter how many struggles I face in life, one thing won’t change. That’s how much I love cinema and cinema loves me back. I strongly believe that this love will grow manifold with Shaakuntalam,” she had said.
On the work front, Samantha was last seen on-screen in the Telugu action-thriller ‘Yashoda’. She played a surrogate mother who won’t stop at anything to protect her child. The actress also recently joined the sets of the Indian adaptation of Amazon Prime’s upcoming web series ‘Citadel.’ She will share screen space with Varun Dhawan in the show, which is being co-created by Raj and DK.