Seven stars of the sea
View(s):- Film Maaria’s Best Actors felicitated
By Susitha R. Fernando
A rare feat. all seven-male cast in the film ‘Maaria’ (Angel of the Ocean) jointly winning the Best Actor award at the 6th Hanoi International Film Festival in Vietnam was celebrated recently. First time in the history of Sri Lankan cinema, all seven cast members Dharshan Dharmaraj, Hemal Ranasinghe, Mahendra Perera, Dasun Pathirana, Priyantha Sirikumara, Ashan Dias and Suran Dasanayake were awarded the Best Actor award at the festival held in 2022.
At the event, the cast members of the film directed by Aruna Jayawardene were given away the awards. On behalf of Dharshan Dharmaraj who faced an untimely death, his wife accepted the award.
In 2022 the film also competed at the 44th Moscow International Festival (MIFF) and at the Jaipur international film festival in India.
Entirely shot in a trawler boat in the middle of the sea, ‘Maaria’ features a group of fishermen engaged in their vocation in the mid seas. They suddenly bump into a guy called Malan who had stealthily hidden in their fishing trawler with the sole intention of illegally migrating to Australia. One morning they find something mysterious floating in the seas and jointly pull it into their trawler believing that it must be a god-sent fortune. But they ultimately find it to be a sex doll. Though dejected, the entry to the female sex doll causes the feelings to these men to run amok. The attitudes of the guys who had since then got on well selflessly, gradually begin to corrode.
Scripted by Aruna Jayawardana, cinematographed by Channa Deshapriya, music by Chinthaka Jayakody and the film is produced by Indrajith Silva.
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