[1][2][3] Sakuntalai is the story of the mythological queen Shakuntala, whose tale is told in the Mahabharata and dramatised by Kalidasa in the play Abhijñānaśākuntalam.

They decided to make a movie based Shakuntala's life and asked director K. Subramanyam, to direct the film.

The scene where Shakuntala loses her ring was shot in slow motion through a glass tank filled with water.

She was a young European girl in her late twenties, possessing a beautiful Venus-type figure, who performed acrobatic dances with a male partner in cabaret shows at the Connemara Hotel in Madras.

In an unheard-of technique in Indian films, she came up out of a water tank and danced in her rather skin-tight one-piece bathing suit.