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Wekande Walawwa show delayed
Veteran film maker Lester James Peries’ latest film ‘Wekande Walawwa’ (Mansion By the Lake) release would be delayed due to the April 2 Parliament election.

The film was scheduled to be released on February 12 but in view of the uncertainties arising out of the dissolution of parliament and forthcoming election, the film distributors had decided to release the film once the political situation returns to normal. Speaking about the postponement veteran filmmaker, Lester James Peries said that a similar situation arose when his film ‘Beddegama’ (Village in the Jungle) was released. Here too electioneering prevented people from late shows. “There would be a less tendency for people to go out for a serious movie like this”, he said.

He said it also would affect with the publicity campaign especially with the poster campaign, as the walls would be covered with posters of election candidates. The film which won international acclaims at several foreign festivals was the first local production that competed in the Foreign Film category at last year Academy Awards.

Based on Anton Chekov’s ‘Cherry Orchard’ the script was written by Somaweera Senanayake and the stellar cast in “Wekande Walawwe” include Malani Fonseka, Wasanthi Chathurani, Irangani Serasinghe, Sanath Gunathilake, Ravindra Randeniya and Paboda Sandeepani.

Cinematography is handled by K. A. Dharmasena while Gladwin Fernando did the editing and Sumitra Peries and Mani Mendis did the art direction. Pradeep Ratnayake did the musical score. The film is produced by Chandran Ratnam and would be released in the CEL circuit.

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