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Icons: South Asia

Paradise

Sri Lanka, India

English, Hindi, Malayalam, Sinhala, Tamil

2023

92 mins

South Asia Premiere

Festival History

Busan Int'l Film Festival

Icons: South Asia

Paradise

Sri Lanka, India

English, Hindi, Malayalam, Sinhala, Tamil

2023

92 mins

South Asia Premiere

Festival History

Busan Int'l Film Festival

To celebrate their fifth anniversary, Aritha, a blogger, and her husband Kesav, a film producer, travel to crisis-ridden Sri Lanka from Mumbai to tour the historical places tracing the Indian epic Ramayana. When three masked men enter their bedroom in a hill country bungalow and steal their mobile phones, laptops, and Aritha’s camera, the couple goes to the police. Pressured to act on the case, Sergeant Bandara produces three unemployed Tamil men as suspects. From then, one thing leads to another, creating a chasm between Aritha and Kesav.

Credits

Lead Cast

Roshan Mathew

Darshana Rajendran

Mahendra Perera & Shyam Fernando

Writer

Prasanna Vithanage & Anushka Senanayake

Director of Photography

Rajeev Ravi

Editor

A. Sreekar Prasad

Sound Designer

Tapas Nayak

Music Director

K

Production Designer

Dhammika Hewaduwaththa

Costume Designer

Shilpi Agarwal & Buddhi Sanjaya Edhirisinghe

Producer/s

Newton Cinema

Production Company/ies

Newton Cinema

Contact


World Sales Agent

Anto Chittilappilly

anto@newtoncinema.com


Rights Holder

Anto Chittilappilly

anto@newtoncinema.com


Director

Prasanna Vithanage

Prasanna Vithanage, born in 1962, is considered one of the pioneers of the third generation of Sri Lankan cinema. He has directed eight feature films and won many prestigious national and international awards. He has battled against censorship in Sri Lanka and worked as an educator of cinema, conducting master classes in the subcontinent for young filmmakers and enthusiasts.