Sankranthi a tale of a trio

Anuruddha Jayasinghe's debut film 'Sankranthi' (The Tender Trap) will be released from May 11 on CEL circuit cinemas including Regal Colombo.

Based on a script written by Prof. Nimal Senanayake, the film revolves around a psychological story on three separate characters.

Anuruddha Jayasinghe Director

The story revolves around a primatologist, his young wife and young assistance, the three whose inner lives and thoughts are much different to what they are and what they pretend to be.

The primatologist thinks that his wife married him for his prestige while the wife thinks differently and assistant is thinking that the professor's wife is in love with him. A three characters are living in a mystery and the story leads to a tragic end.

The film stars a talented cast with W. Jayasiri, Sangeetha Weeraratne, Bimal Jayakody in the main cast with Hemasiri Liyanage, Giriraj Kaushalya and Seetha Kumarasinghe.

Bimal Jayakody

Co-produced by Prof. Senanayake and Dr. Withana P. Somasiri, the film is edited by Rukmal Nirosh and Ajith Ramanayake, camerais handled by Ruwan Costa and make up by Imal Shanaka Peiris. Art director is Welagedara Ranasinghe, executive director is Mahesh Bandara, technical advisor is Ravindra Guruge, costume designer Athula Sulthanagoda and production manager is Raja Ranasinghe.

The film was screened at the 'World Cinema' category at 34th International Indian Film Festival last December. The award winning teledrama director and scriptwriter, Anuruddha had won awards at the OCIC, State Awards and Sumathi tele awards and was nominated on several occasions in addition to acclaims most of his cast and crew had received.

The film was shot on location in and around Nuwara Eliya and Anuradhapura.