A thriller road movie; A man who runs away with a corpse of murdered wife
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- Shyam Fernando
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- Hemasiri Liyanage
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- Samanalee Fonseka
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- Director Chinthana Dharmadasa
‘Avilenasului’ (Inflammable), young filmmaker and writer Chinthana Dharmadasa’s second film-after ‘How I wonder what you are’ his debut, a co-direction with Udhaya Dharmawardhana- started rescreening from June 27. Three screenings daily at 10.30 am, 1.30 pm and 4.30 pm will be at CEL circuit cinemas including Regal Colombo and Regal Gampaha and Liberty Lite, Amity Lite and other Lite cinemas. The film was premiered on March 13 and the following day it had to be stopped with the imposing of curfew and lockdown of the country due to COVID-19 crisis. The first film that was released after COVID-19 closure was ‘Avilenasului’.
“Somebody has to take the risk and the challenge to open the cinemas. So I took the challenge,” Chinthana said speaking about the release of his film. He said that theatres have taken all protective measures during screening including arranging seating following social distancing guidelines and providing hand sanitizing and other facilities. “Anyway according to the medical guidelines you can only fill half of the theatres,” he said.
Written by Chinthana himself, the road-movie starring talented Shyam Fernando and Samanalee Fonseka the two main roles, revolves around a psychopath who runs away with the body of his murdered wife. On his way he accidentally comes across with another woman, who is running away from a man who could be her lover or paramour. The two makes their own journey. During this journey the woman threatens the man with the same knife he murdered his wife, saying that she’s aware of the body in the boot and forces him to keep driving. How would this journey come to an end?