Wednesday

Yahaluwo (Best Friends)

Cast: Sujeewa Senasinghe, Pooja Umashankar, Himasal Liyanage, Iranganie Serasinghe, Anarkali Akarsha,

Summary: Rajiv, a boy from the upper middle class, has a mixed parentage: mother, a Tamil doctor and the father, a Sinhalese businessman. He spends the day in the company of servants of various ethnic origins, and home-tutors.

The recent series of Sinhala war films gives me a strange feeling: no filmmaking is likely without the battlefield-chores. I see people step into the cinema hall seeking either entertainment or serenity and no day-to-day chores. But when you experience what you don't want, you got to have second thoughts about your next visit to the cinema hall.

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