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‘Rankiri Soya’ gives kids a hand
By Susitha R. Fernando
While a majority of today’s teledramas have come more closer to adult only films with their themes and substance, a miniplay “Rankiri Soya” is to be telecast every Monday at 7.30pm from November 8 catering mainly to the children audience.

The teledrama directed by veteran film artiste and award winning cinematographer Andrew Jayamanne and produced by Ranjith Perera could be classed as a all-family show.

The storyline revolves around a young boy, Dilum played by Dunisha Maduranga a virtuoso in singing who struggles to overcome hardships in his journey to victory.

Young parentless Dilum lives with his grandmother and her brother who is dumb. With the death to the grandmother boy’s life undergoes many changes. Abandoned with the careless, dumb relative who sells all the property that belonged to his grandmother to the landlady of the house where they were living, Dilum starts to undergo the most difficult period of his life. When his grandmother’s brother too leaves him, the landlady (Mercy Edirisinghe) and her husband (W. Jayasiri) adopts him as a house help.

Noticing the keen student Dilum absent, his class teacher (Maureen Charuni) starts to search for him and with the help of police she manages to board him at an orphanage and support him to continue his education. But his happiness here too is short lived. The assistant matron of the orphanage starts suspecting Dilum for certain incidents taking place there.

But with a popular singer (Nayana Kumari) who comes to support the orphanage, Dilum sees little hope to his miserable life. The singer who identifies Dilum’s talents decides to adopt him as her child. But the assistant matron who does not want to see Dilum’s success make plans against this. She makes up stories against Dilum to singer’s mother and prevents her (singer) from taking the young boy to her house. Meanwhile there are problems starts between the head matron and the assistant over Dilum and this lead Dilum to runaway from the orphanage and join a group of street singers led by a music master.

Though he was happy with them with the sudden death of the music master, the unfortunate Dilum becomes helpless again. But his accidental meeting with a retired estate superintendent (Ashoka Peiris) brings luck to his life. But this time, it was the superintendent’s sister who fears that the huge property would go to Dilum and begins to plot against him. The superintendent suddenly falls sick and he was sent abroad for the medication and this takes back Dilum to another sad plight. The boy faced with harassment by the Superintendent’s sister runs away again.

What awaits this young man who had become the victim of circumstances? Watch Rankiri Soya every Monday starting from tomorrow to find the answers.

The rest of the cast comprise Roshan Pilapitiya, Kusum Renu, Hyasinth Wijeratne, Suneetha Wimalaweera, Veeni Weththa-singhe, Edna Sugathapala, Berty Susiripala, Kusum Maldeniya, Eudeni Alwis, Udeni Chandrasiri, Anula Wanigasuriya and Dulakshi Elikewela. The teledrama Rankiri Soya is sponsored by Ceylon Biscuits Limited..

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