Internationally acclaimed ‘Paangshu’ in theatres
View(s):Internationally awarded Visakesha Chandrasekaram’s ‘Paangshu’ (Earth) will be released in theatres from August 21.
Nita in a scene from ‘‘Paangshu’’
Last year the film won two major awards including the Best Actress for Nita Fernando at the Nice International Film Festival in France. She won the award in the Foreign films category for her role as a mother with an undaunted courage journeys to find what happened to her son who had gone missing. This was a major international award Nita won following her Best Actress Award for her role as Violet in Prasanna Vithanage ‘Pavuru Walalu’ (Walls Within) at the International Singapore Film Festival in 1998.
In addition to Nita, costume designer of the film, Kumara Karawdeniya won the Best Costume Designer award at the festival. The director and screenplay writer Vishakesa was also nominated for the Best Screenplay award. Among other film festivals Saviour Kanishka won the Best Supporting Actor at the 2019 Golden Door International Film Festival Visakesa won the Royal Reel Award at 2019 Canada International Film Festival and Special Jury Mention, 2019 Religion Today Film Festival, Italy.
‘Paangshu’ narrates around Babanona (Nita Fernando), a launderer belonged to one of the lowest castes in Sri Lanka is summoned to an identification parade where she identifies Lionel as one of the paramilitary men who abducted her son during the 1988/89 insurgency. While Indika (Jagath Manuwarna), the young public prosecutor shows little or no interest in helping Babanorna finding her missing son, Namalee (Nadie kammallaweera), the pregnant wife of the paramilitary man seeks forgiveness from the launderer. As the prolonging hearings in the dilapidated courthouse continue for months, shameful secrets are gradually unearthed by the defeated rebels, victorious soldiers and those who were crushed in between.
The film also represented fourteen more international film festivals including 2018 Montreal World Film Festival, Cananda, 2019 Pune International Film Festival, India,
2019 Dhaka International Film Festival, Bangladesh, 2019 Aswan International Women’s Film Festival, Egypt, 2019 Barcelona Imagine India International Film Festival, Spain, 2019 and 2019 Singapore South Asia International Film Festival, Singapore.
Released in the Ridma circuit, ‘Paangshu’ will be screened at a large number of theatres including some of the major English and Sinhala theatres like Regal, PVT, Colombo City Centre, Majestic City, Liberty, Lite cinemas and many other theatres arond the country.
(SF)
