Mahakavi Kalidasu is a 1960 Indian Telugu-language biographical film directed by Kamalakara Kameswara Rao and written by Pingali.

[1] The film begins in the Avanti kingdom; its King has a daughter, Vidyadhari, an ardent devotee of Goddess Mahakali.

Right now, Kalidasu earns various kudos for his works and reaches Kaasi, where he clarifies a stanza and states it is from Ramayana written by Hanuman.

The two meet at a peepal tree where a demon waits for their conjoining and bestows them an idol of Sarada Devi, which they install in Bharatacharya's ashram.

During that time, Bhoja Raja asks him for scripture, an epic on feelings out of separation, when Kalidasu composes a beautiful love story, Meghasandesam.

After that, Bhoja Raja requests Kalidasu to pen the story of Shakuntala, but he hesitates as the characters lack standards.