Road movie starts going
Nilendra Deshapriya’s debut film ‘Thanha Rathi Ranga (Between Yesterday and Tomorrow) has been selected for two international film festivals in Russia and the USA taking place during this week. The film is also ready to be released here in EAP circuit cinemas from October 17. It will be screened at Liberty Kollupitiya, Savoy-2 Wellawatte and 45 other theatres around the country.
Director Nilendra Deshapriya
The film has been officially selected recently to represent Sri Lanka at the ‘XIII St. Petersburg International Festival of Debut and Beginning’ in Russia and it is being held from October 10 – 17. During the same time ‘Thanha Rathi Ranga’ is also been screened at 13th Scottsdale International Film Festival -2014 in USA from October 10 to 13.
Founded by St.Petersburg Filmmaker’s Union the St. Petersburg International Festival is held annually with the assistance of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the St.Petersburg Government and the Committee of Culture.
The Festival aims to maintain and enhance creative and professional international contacts, to promote experience and ideas exchange among film schools and film production companies, to reveal tendencies towards development of young cinema in different countries. In the USA festival, ‘Thanha Rathi Ranga (Between Yesterday and Tomorrow)’ is also the official selection of -2014 in USA.
For previous 12 seasons Scottsdale International Film Festival has offered over 71,500 attendees more than 350 films from 70 nations around the globe. The Festival routinely attracts the Best Foreign Language Film award winners and top Hollywood studio and independent artistic releases. The film recently won the award for ‘Best Film’ from over 1000 films at the 2014 I Will Tell International Film Festival in London, UK. The lead juror at this festival, Bart Gavigan, Hollywood Script Doctor remarked ‘Thanha Rathi Ranga’ is a little jewel.
A powerful story, character driven, executed by a filmmaker with a true grasp of cinema. The creative team was not afraid to risk a slow-burning dramatic arc, leavened with injections of jeopardy. It’s theme about the huge impact of our apparently small selfish decisions, or those possible roads to real happiness that are ignored or not taken, is a mighty one, reminiscent of early Fellini films like I VITELLONI and LA STRADA’.
Earlier this year “Thanha Rathi Ranga” won the Best Film Award at the ‘Dada Saheb Phalke International Film Festival’ in India. The film was also nominated for Best Film at the 2014 Long Beach Indie International Film Festival in the US and competed for the NETPAC award at the 2014 Bengaluru International Film Festival, India. Co-produced by Sunil T Fernando and H.D. Premasiri, Thanha Rathi Ranga is co-produced and directed by Nilendra Deshapriya.
Cinematographyed by Dhanushka Gunathilake, edited by Ravindra Guruge, sound mixer is Tapas Nayak and music is composed by Gayathri Khemadasa and Anupa Khemadasa.
The film stars Swarna Mallawarachchi, Anoja Weerasinghe, Nita Fernando, Kumara Thirimadura, Sarath Kothalawala, Namal Jayasinghe, Dayadewa Edirisinghe, Sulochana Weerasinghe, Adam Adamally and Kamal Addaraarachchi.
