Dharmasiri Bandaranayake
2021Bawa Duka - භව දුක
Dharmasiri Bandaranayake
Swarna Mallawarachchi, Jackson Anthony
Set during the British colonial reign in Sri Lanka (1905), this powerful drama follows Peduru who descends from a line of traditional drummers, crossing over to three generations. Peduru's struggle for survival in this harsh rural hamlet exposes the repressive Buddhist institutionalization of the locals, and the hierarchical structure backed by the British colonials.
Bawa Duka - The Sorrow of Existence - Part I
Hansa Vilak
Dharmasiri Bandaranayake
Vasanthi Chathurani, Dharmasiri Bandaranayake
A married man (Nissanka) and woman (Miranda) find their lives disrupted after their affair is exposed by the police. Leaving their respective families, the two decide to live together. Shortly afterwards, Miranda secretly goes back to see her former husband. As paranoia mounts, Nissanka disintegrates psychologically to point where reality and fantasy are blurred.
Hansa Vilak
Scent of the Lotus Pond
Satyajit Maitipe
Kaushalaya Fernando, Dilani Abeywardana
Three rural, working class garment factory girls - a pampered prima-Donna (Mangala), a safe runner (Swineetha) and a tormented vixen (Gothami) go through trials and tribulations of their bitter sweet youth in a liberalized industrial zone in the city. Lovelorn Gothami makes life difficult for everyone around her and creates her own tragedy by obsessively falling in love with her pretty friend Mangala's sexually frustrated lover, Vipula. The carefree existence of the three girls end in catastrophe and gothami disappears. An accidental meeting of the two girls after several years results in a confession by the ever winning Mangala. the revelation shocks Gothami. Perhaps for the first time Gothami sees life, winning and losing, suffering and salvation in a completely different perspective, which she never thought existed.
Scent of the Lotus Pond
සුද්දීලාගේ කතාව
Dharmasiri Bandaranayake
Swarna Mallawarachchi, J H Jayawardena
Set in the dry zone of Sri Lanka, Suddi is married to a notorious criminal in the village, Romiel. Convicted for a murder Romiel is jailed. Miserable Suddhi has to depend on Sirimewan Mudalalie, a shrewd businessman from town.
A Woman in a Whirlpool
