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Vasantha spins a 'Web of Love' By Susitha
R. Fernando
Vasantha Obeysekera after a long lay off from film making is
back with a triangular love story- "Salelu Warama" (The
Web of Love) woven around two undergraduates and a divorcee. The
film has been selected as a National entry to the competitive section
of the 33rd Indian International Film Festival to be held in New
Delhi from October 1 to 10 and Vasantha will be in India this week
to participate in the event. 'Salelu Warama'
stars Sangeetha Weeraratne, Kamal Addararachchi, Tony Suren (Kamal
Addararachchi) and Priyanka (Sangeetha Weeraratne) are undergraduates
of the same university. It was love at first sight for Suren. Priyanka is
however already engaged to Sunil a divorcee who had left for employment
abroad. Priyanka initially
rejects Suren's advances without revealing her relationship with
Sunil. Rumours begin to circulate that Sunil is having an affair
with a foreign woman. A sense of
dejection overcomes Priyanka. Suren's ardent and sincere affection
slowly but surely attracts her and she too falls deeply in love
with him. But Sunil's
unexpected arrival and Priyanka's equally unforeseen decision to
go back to her former love leaves Suren bitter. The web of
love and jealousy in which the trio are entangled lead the film
to an unexpected dramatic finale. Beginning a
cinema career as co-screenplay writer in 'Sath Samudura' (Seven
Seas), which was Sri Lanka's official entry for the Moscow International
film Festival in 1967 Mr. Obeysekera has done films like "Palangetiyo"
(Grasshoppers), "Dadayama" (the Hunt) and "Kadapathaka
Chaya" (Reflection in a mirror) some of which have become benchmark
films in Sri Lankan cinema history. Speaking on
"Salelu Warama" Vasantha Obeysekera said "the structure
is a triangular love story involving three youngsters. The film
narrates a few personal conflicts which no one understands as affecting
those around them and the society in general." On the choice
of two undergraduates to depict the two main characters Mr. Obeysekera
said "I wanted to use a section of the youth classed as intellectuals
to convey my idea more powerfully". "But when it comes
to love they forget their place or position. They do hardly foresee
the final outcome of their actions," the director explained.
"Failure
to control intense feeling turning to violence is nothing new to
this society. I wanted to
display the futility of certain actions of our youth. These happen
everyday and my effort was to depict a reflection of our own society,"
he reiterated. "But can
we single out and put the blame on them for these? Mr. Obeysekera
questioned. "There is no one to be blamed for the break down
of the relationship. Only thing that is evident is that our society
lacks communication with each other and specially between parents
and children" the director added. "And it
is not easy to work with me. I am like a task master. I myself write
the script for my films and I have my own inner opinion about it
and how it has to come out. It is I who make the decisions even
though I welcome the opinions of others. He echoed the
views of Alfred Hitchcock when he said 'director is the shepherd'.The
technical crew in this film are Elmo Halide as editor, Lal Harendranath
as art director and production executive is Nihal Sanjaya. The musical
score is by Rohana Weerasinghe and the film is produced by Soma
Edirisinghe. "Salelu Warama" will be released on EAP circuit shortly. 'Spy
Kids 2': The Fun Never Ends
This is the sequel to the Spy Kids movie released last year
titled Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams. With most of the movies
released this year focusing on markets elsewhere Spy Kids 2 is the
only movie behind the Harry Potter movie to be released in November,
totally dedicated to kids entertainment. The next plus point is the fact that this is a blend of high tech gadgets and intriguing turns which seems never ending. The special effects made 99% out of state of the art computer graphics systems bring out true to life images of high tech spy equipment and bizarre creatures thanks to the DreamWorks studios. The director
of the movie renowned for action adventure movies of different flavor
Robert Rodriguez is famous for his movies such as The Faculty and
Desperado. The Cast includes Daryl Sabara as Juni Cortez, Alexa
Vega as Carmen Cortez, Antonio Banderas as Gregorio Cortez, Carla
Gugino as Ingrid Cortez which complete the family of spies but this
season the grand parents join in to strengthen the collective battle
formation of the Cortezes in their adventurous assignments and rescue
missions. Spy Kids 1
focused on the kids as supporting the work of their parents. This
season Carmen and Juni are agents about to set off on their own
solo mission, or so they think. But this time it will take the whole
family and then some daredevil and intelligent moves to keep the
world safe from a mysterious volcanic island populated by a mad
scientist and his imaginative menagerie of creatures, an island
where none of their gadgets work and they have to rely on their
wits and each other to save the day. The movie also sees them challenged
by another pair of spy siblings, Gary (O'Leary) and Gerti Giggles.
When the adult spies are taken out of commission (again), the two
teams are all that's left to save the world on a coveted mission
that sends them all to an island off the coast of Madagascar filled
with bizarre creatures. The bounty
the agents are after is the so called Transmooker device capable
of destroying the whole world which some mysterious agents from
a rogue institution steal from the US president and flee to the
Island but surprise awaits the pursuing parties who realize the
real device has become a part of the Island.
'Night Eyes'
revolves around a family and lifestyle of a rock star and his beautiful
wife. Nikki Walker
(Tanya Roberts) is the beautiful young wife of rock star Brian Walker.
During a party at their Beverly Hills estate Niki accidentally walks
out on her husband and a teenaged groupie. It's the final humiliation
for Nikki who has had to deal with Brian's infidelities throughout
their marriage. She leaves him in the middle of the party as he drunkenly announces to the guests the end of their marriage. |
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