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Sudath seeks new talent for ‘Saradiel’
A historical tale based on the life of our local Robinhood or well-known bandit king 'Uthuwankande Saradiel' is to be made into miniplay by award winning teledrama director Sudath Rohana.

The teledrama to be produced for the ITN channel based on a screenplay by veteran scriptwriter Somaweera Senanayake is in its preproduction stage and the director Sudath Rohana has invited those interested in acting to join its massive cast.

The director is searching for girls and boys aged between 15 and 18 years plus an adult cast from the age group 25-45 years from all communities Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim, Burgher and Malay. The interviews for those aged between 25 and 45 will be held from 9.00 am to 6.00 pm on Thursday April 20, at Sudharshi hall (opposite the BMICH) and interviews for those between 15 and 18 years will be held from 9.00 am to 3.00 pm on April 21 at the same venue.

Saradiel is a story created after extensive study of several historical sources including the records of the Police and Prison Departments, judicial records, reports maintained during the colonial administration and old newspaper articles from the then leading newspapers of that period 'The Ceylon Times', 'The Examiner' and 'Lak Rivi Kirana'.

Jayalath Manoratne, Indrajith Nawinna, Champa Sriyani, Richard Weerakkody, Roshan Ravindra, Ajith Lokuge, Tissa Abeysekera, Shirantha Dharmawardena, Sathischandra Edirisinghe, Rukmal Nirosh, Jagath Benaragama, Edward Gunawardena, Janak Premalal, W. Jayasiri, Indika Upamali, Umayangana Wickremasinghe, Udeni Chandrasiri and Rishard Abeywardena are part of the stellar cast.

The technical crew comprises K. A. Dharmasiri, cameraman; Chanaka de Silva, editor; Hemasiri Ferdinando, art director and Navaratne Gamage musical director.

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