Icons: South Asia
Sri Lanka, India
English, Hindi, Malayalam, Sinhala, Tamil
2023
92 mins
South Asia Premiere
Festival History
Busan Int'l Film Festival
Icons: South Asia
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.
Roshan Mathew
Darshana Rajendran
Mahendra Perera & Shyam Fernando
Prasanna Vithanage & Anushka Senanayake
Rajeev Ravi
A. Sreekar Prasad
Tapas Nayak
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Dhammika Hewaduwaththa
Shilpi Agarwal & Buddhi Sanjaya Edhirisinghe
Newton Cinema
Newton Cinema
Anto Chittilappilly
anto@newtoncinema.com
Anto Chittilappilly
anto@newtoncinema.com
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.