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'Asani
Wesi': portrays a remote village The eighteen
episode serial teledrama is the maiden effort of young director
Mohanji Ranganath and is another production of Teledrama Unit of
Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation. "Mahathun" a young man from a poor family comes to serve 'Mamber' and putting aside all the good that was given to him by his family he starts to try his superior's power on other inhabitants in the village. Mahathun's conduct brings much despair to his sister Siriyawathi, a teacher in the village school. Madduma visits Mahathun's uncle, a traditional drummer and his daughter 'Maliththi' and the boy are friends. But Mahathun whose proposal to Maliththi for a love affair was rejected is jealous of this relationship and he misunderstands this as love. Mamber who hears about his son Madduma's relationship with a girl in the village was furious he uses Mahathun as an instrument to break the friendship. Promising to help Mahathun's sister with a teaching appointment Mamber make plans to destroy Maliththi. But the fatal shot to kill young Maliththi accidentally brings death on Mahathun's own sister Siriyawathi. While the murder remains a secret Mahathun starts hating Mamber who influenced him to take part in a murder. As the social changes taking place in time Mamber looses his power. He becomes more helpless when his wife meets a sudden death and when he himself becomes paralyzed. But with the intervention of Mahathun's uncle, the traditional drummer, Maliththi comes to look after Mamber and Mamber starts regretting his attempt to kill girl he confess what he was going to do. But Mamber's son Madduma does not like the girl coming to house the but keeps quite at Mamber's request. At the same time Maliththi gets interested in her friend Madduma. Meanwhile Mahathun who was waiting to take revenge from Mamber gets more furious at his cousin, Maliththi's help to his enemy by going to his house. One day he forcibly tries to take the girl while he was helping Mamber and Mamber comes against Mahathun. And here Mahathun gets an ideal chance to take the revenge from his adversary. Who would win from these two rivalries? And what would happen to the friendship between Maliththi and Madduma? The cast in 'Asani Wesi' include Suminda Sirisena, Ashoka Peiris, Grace Ariyawimal, Sarath Chandrasiri, Nayana Kumari, Sanath Wimalaweera, Rukmal Nirosh, Bandula Vithanage and introduces Nadee Chandrasekara to the small screen. Written by U. B. Ratnayake, camera by Deepal Jayasinghe, produced and directed by Mohanji Ranganath. Dissanayake
attempts another Saroja The film is woven around two children belonging to two different backgrounds; one is a mentally disturbed child born to a well-to-do family but has lost parental love and a poor servant girl coming to serve him. Ten year old Sampath, a Sinhalese boy, born to a rich family, is mentally disturbed due to lack of parental love and care from his infancy. His mother walked out of home when he was a few years old. He doesn't talk to anyone and lives a solitary life of his own. He has a habit of smashing and breaking things in the house when he gets disturbed. His father believes that everything can be solved with money. He spends generously on all the comforts and expensive toys for Sampath. But ignores the most important thing, which is parental love and attention for the child. Sathya, an eight year old Tamil girl, comes to work as a servant in the house. She is the daughter of Velu, the longest serving domestic employee of the family. Sampath is attracted to Sathya's innocent and joyful childish behavior. Gradually they become friends, much to the annoyance of Sampath's racist father. Sampath begins to pick up words from Sathya and he is soon speaking Tamil. His father wants to break this developing relationship, but the doctor advises against it, saying it's the best treatment for Sampath. Sampath comes out of his mental disturbance and becomes almost like a normal child. On psychiatric advise he starts his schooling at home with private tutors together with Sathya. Sampath's father now sees the positive influence the Tamil girl has on his son and begins to accept her. This is 1983, when the worst ethnic clashes occurred in the country between the Sinhalese and Tamils. Organised gangs of Sinhalese extremists launched attacks against the Tamils destroying their property and killing innocents. Velu and Sathya get caught to the rioters. Velu is killed, but Sathya escapes. Sathya's mother arrives and decides to take Sathya back to their village, despite the offer made by Sampath's father for them to stay on in the bungalow. After loosing the whole new world he had built up with Sathya, Sampath reverts back to his disturbed state and starts his destructive behaviour. Having previously directed several stage plays and teledrama series Somaratne Dissanayake won nine awards for his debut feature film "Saroja" depicting the people caught up in North and East war. 'Punchi Suranganavi' the latest direction of Mr. Dissanayake on the whole is an attempt through a children's film to bring out a powerful message that survival of Sinhalese and Tamils depends on the unity between the two communities. The cast include Tharaka Hettiarachchi, Nithyavani Kandasamy, Sriyantha Mendis, Dilani Abeywardena and Namel Weeramuni with some guest performances done by Henry Jayasena, Malini Fonseka, Jayalath Manoratne and Janaka Kumbukge. 'Senuri'
on mini screen "From the first teledrama in the country "La Hiru Dahasak" nearly forty teledramas have been produced by the SLRC and most of these have won awards at different TV festivals and were popular among the TV audience in this country" said Wimalaratne Adikary, the head of the teledrama unit. "Senuri" woven around a little girl who goes in search of fatherly love unknown to her from birth is directed by Gamini Rathnasiri. The cast selected for the mini play are Roger Seneviratne, Dilani Abeywardena, , Ananda Wickremage, Hysinth Wijesinghe, Janak Premalal, Suneetha Wimalaweera and young Panchali Kaushalya doing debut lead role in "Senuri". "Suriya Dadayama", "Wassana Sihinaya", "Isuru Yogaya", "Wasantha Kusalanaya", Sanda Kath Mini" and "Isuru Purawara" are some of the teleplays scheduled to be produced by Teledrama Unit in future. Sabawen
Awasarai The series stars a host of popular comedians of the likes of Jayasekera Aponsu and Susila Kottage. The plot revolves around Michael Deval Wilkinson, his wife Catherine Wilkinson (who is crazy about Hindi films) and their friends - all of whom at the end of the day find themselves in ridiculous situations because of each other's foolish behaviour. Starring Susila Kottage, Jayasekera Aponsu, Sonia Dias, Biyanka Shamini, Lakmal Fonseka, Saman Hemerathne, Nimal Yatiwella and Anusha Damayanthi Gunathilekke. On Mondays at 8.30pm on Sirasa TV |
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8.30 pm on National Rupavahini.
Somaratna
Dissanayake of 'Saroja' fame is once again waiting to present his
second children's film 'Little Angel' (Punchi Suranganavi) depicting
a similar issue to his previous one from a different angle. 
Sirasa
TV which brought you hilarious comedies like "Nonawaruni Mahathwaruni"
and "Kathura" now brings you a brand new side splitting
comedy series "Sabawen Awasarai" on Mondays at 8.30p.m.
