Cinema
ආදර හසුන
H. D. Premaratne · 1986
Synopsis
Anula, the young wife of Colonel Serasinghe, a retired officer whom she met after losing her parents and fleeing her village, receives a gift and a letter from a messenger. Her husband sees in it proof of infidelity, and the couple's life is upended by this suspicion; Gunapala, a rich merchant, soon enters the young woman's story.
Context
The director wrote the film himself, in colour. Joe Abeywickrama plays the colonel, Vasanthi Chathurani Anula, Ravindra Randeniya Gunapala, Trilicia Gunawardena the colonel's sister. Suminda Weerasinghe is behind the camera, Jayatissa Dillimuni edits, Rohana Weerasinghe composes the music, including the song Sudu Mudu Rala Pela. The film was released on 13 December 1986. The critic Uditha Devapriya places the popular films of its director, this one included, on the side of visual poetry.
Who it is for
A melodrama in Sinhala, in colour, aimed at the general public without giving up decorum; to be seen in a subtitled copy.
Prizes and reception
Counted among the popular films that earn its author the title of father of middle cinema on the island.