Talented filmmaker Vishvanath Buddhika Keerthisena’s film ‘Matha’, revolving around a love story amidst the final battle between the Sri Lankan army and LTTE is now being screened at Regal Colombo and other CEL circuit cinemas around the country.
A joint production by Ruwan Jayasinghe, Sanath Lanka Ranaweera and Wijji Rathnayake the film has a mixture of young and veteran stars including Ravindra Randeniya, Darshan Dharmaraj, Yashoda Radhakrishan, Kanakasabe Pavithran, Mallika Keerthi, Raja Ganeshan, Pragathi Varshani, Mahendra Perera, Dharmapriya Dias, Thumindu Dodanthenna, Buddhika Jayaratne, Dasun Pathirana and Gayan Perera.
Yoga, a child soldier of the LTTE, tries to escape from the force but fails. He is separated from his young love Parwathi when a bomb explodes on a train. Around 15 years later, he meets her again on the battlefield of the Sri Lankan civil war. He finds out that she was an English teacher, but had to join the LTTE to stop them from forcing her kid brother becoming a child soldier. Meanwhile, Parwathi’s mother, father and young sister are among the 300,000 Tamil civilians who were displaced by the LTTE.
War gets intense and Parwathi’s family get scattered through all the complications and hardship the refuges endured. Yoga and Parwathi keep getting separated and reunited in the heated battles between the Sri Lankan army and the LTTE.
Parwathi finds out that she is pregnant with Yoga’s child, and tries to find him. They reunite, and she tries to convince him to run away with her for the sake of their unborn child. But in the last stage of the battle, they are surrounded by government forces that are on a mission to rescue the civilians from the LTTE. Yoga has no hope and tells Parwathi that if the LTTE find out about her pregnancy they would be killed, but if they were caught by the army they would be shot too.
This is the story of Yoga and Parwathi seen through the days of war in Sri Lanka. Cinematography by Milton Kam – USA, Donald Karunaratne, K. A. Dharmasena, the art directors are Udayasiri Upatissa, Lionel Liyanage and Sampath Wanniarachchi and edited by Stephen Philipson, the film score for ‘Matha’ is by Lakshman Joseph De Seram. |
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