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‘Rajjumala’ portrays an old fashioned village
Anura Chandrasiri’s film ‘Rajjumala’ will be released in Regal, Colombo and the other thirteen CEL circuit cinemas from October 28. The director, famed for his earlier works, “Thunweni Eha” and “Sayanaye Sihinaya” has made this film around the mysterious events happening in an elderly man’s life which ends in a tragedy.

The central figure in ‘Rajjumala’ is Sekara, who is a 40 year old man’s the last in a feudal family. He lives in the decaying ancestral Walawwa with his paralyzed mother who still clings on to the old traditional attitudes. The mother and son live with Irene, the servant woman. The family is totally cut off from the rest of the village.

Sekara leads an unusual life and sees absurd dreams which disturbs him. He also is a lover of music and dance and goes for concerts. One day he meets a young female dancer and develops a friendship with her.

But one day Sekara finds the girl brutally murdered and this brings nore confusions to his life. Sekara starts seeing more and more horrible dreams from then onwards leading his life to a more chaotic situation. And this leads to many changes in his life.

The cast in Rajjumala are Dilhani Ekanayalke, Suwineetha Weerasinghe, Roshan Pilapitiya, Kumara Jayakantha, Nirosha Herath, G. R. Perera, Sunil Premakumara, Kumuduni Adikari, Vinee Weththasinghe, Ranjith Gamini Perera, Gamini Jayalath and Bathiya Madanayake and Bandu Samarasinghe who is more popular with comedy roles in commercials is playing a serious role in ‘Rajjumala’.

Among the technical crew Ruwan Costa handled the camera, Imal Shanaka Peiris did make up and Sisirachandra Wijesinghe did the art direction. Amarasiri Peiris and Uresha Ravihari did the play back singing to the musical score written by young music director Nalaka Anjana Kumara.

While Kalyana Chandrasekara assisted in direction, story, dialogue, screenplay the direction is by Anura Chandrasiri. The film was done in and around the locations in Pelmadulla, Wadduwa and Panadura areas.

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