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'SwarnaVeena':
A story of many parts The performers
in this play are Janaka Kumbukage, Nimanthi Porage, Gamini Hettiarachchi,
Awanthi Aponso , Harry Wimalasena, Hasinika Karaliyadda, Priyanath
Rathnayaka, Nimali Thakshila, Mick Fernando, Deepika Sandanayake,
Anton Jude, Anuradha Udayangani, Ananda Athukorala , Gamini Jayalath
and Sunil Premakumara. Saliya is a
young archaeologist. He is a calm and gentle person. There is a
girl who rattles his silent world. She is Madara, a playful socialised
young woman planning to become his wife. There is an
underworld gang, on Saliya's tail, wanting to grab Archaeological
treasures. This systematic and manipulative group uses two women
Parwathi and Shanthi to tackle the archaeologist. Meanwhile a
foreign research team calls upon Saliya. Chapa a journalist
and Ganesh a musician team up to bring Madara to the spotlight as
a professional singer. When a young man and a woman meet on common
ground, off guard there is always something more than just a friendship
on the plate. Would this
be a reality for Madara and Ganesh too? With all this
on the go, the gangster - Parwathi plans to kidnap Saliya on his
arrival. One day Madara
meets Parwathi and this meeting takes a dramatic turn when they
find that they look identical in all the features. How did they become so identical? How will they respond to each other? Where would
they go from here? What effect would it have on Saliya… and
the others? The creators
of Swarna Veena are, Sunanda Weerasingha in editing, Daya Suriyaarachchi
with filming and Upachandra Tilakawardana with music direction.
Rudolf Nureyev's
innovative production of "Cinderella", transports Perraut's
classic tale into the Art Deco World that was Hollywood in the 1930's.
The films produced in Hollywood as a means of escape from aftermath
of the Great Depression form a poignant setting for Cinderella's
escape from the unhappy circumstances of her family life. The ballet
will be in three acts from the story by Perrault. Most parts of
the film was shot at the Paris Opera Ballet. Music by Sergei Prokoliev.
Staring Sylvie Guillem (Cinderella), Charles Jude, Isabelle Guerin,
Monique Loudiences and directed by Colin Nears. For further details please contact Chandi on 685429/685440. 'Titanic' star Kate Winslet marries again Actor Kate
Winslet and director Sam Mendes have married, a spokeswoman for
the couple said today. A statement
released on their behalf said they wed last month during a holiday
in the West Indies. Winslet's daughter
and three close friends attended the private ceremony. The actress
split from first husband Jim Threapleton in 2001 after three years
of marriage. The couple have a two-year-old daughter, Mia. Winslet, 27, has been nominated for three Academy Awards - as lead actress for Titanic and as supporting actress for Sense and Sensibility and for Iris. Mendes, the former artistic director of London's Donmar Warehouse theatre, won an Oscar in 1999 for his first film, American Beauty.
Written by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, and as directed with characteristic crudeness by John Singleton, whose recent and most acclaimed work was the Shaft and he is credited with the work on Boyz N the Hood and Rosewood. The movie premise
goes when Corner blew his cover in the original Fast and the Furious
the only badge he was awarded was the badge of disgrace in the sequel
he returns to reclaim his dignity and his job. As it seems
the FBI in Miami have had a time collaring Carter Verone featuring
Cole Hauser, a flashy businessman using his import and export business
as cover for an international money laundering cartel. Customs have
had Verone under intense surveillance for more than a year with
nothing more to show for it than the kingpin's link to illegal street
racing. With their backs against the wall and time running out, officials contact O'Connor to do what he does best talk the talk and push the metal. But the rule-breaking
ex cop has his own demands before taking on the job that may restore
him his badge. Unhappy with the list of sorry possibilities presented
as potential partners, he insists on recruiting his childhood friend
and now ex-con Roman Pearce played by Tyrese, an accomplished criminal
with an aptitude for barrier-shattering speed Pearce is the
character that has been introduced by the producers to fill the
huge vaccum created by Diesel who could not be bought back to the
movie as the Universal studio stuck with a strict budget. With him
not in the show David Cohen the director of Fast and the Furious
refused to do the sequel. It's the last
chance for both, ex-con and ex-cop and their ticket out of disgrace
is bringing down Verone. But lines become blurred once again for
O'Connor with the appearance of undercover agent Monica Fuentes
played by the sexy Eva Mendes the key to entering Verone's world
lies on Feuentes. O'Connor and Pearce team up to work undercover as drivers for Verone, and promised that their records will be cleaned up if the mission succeeds. First they have
to win their jobs. Verone assembles several teams of drivers and
tells them he left a package in his red Ferrari at an auto pound
20 miles away. First team back with the package gets to work with
Verone. That sets off
a high-speed race down Route 95 during which one car is crushed
under the wheels of a truck, several more crash, and various racers
these high speed scenes win the day for the movie which hasn't have
much of a plot but the combination of man and machine and the outcome
of speed is a virtue that 2 fast 2 Furious has not lost at a time
when flashy cars and daredevil car chases have lost their say the
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