The Chitra Bopage Story, a docu-drama at the ICES
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Nun Other Than – The Chitra Bopage Story, a docu-drama directed by Udan Fernando will be screened on October 8 at 4 p.m. at the ICES Colombo Auditorium, No. 2, Kynsey Terrace, Colombo 8.
Udan Fernando’s 90-minute film in English and Sinhala with English subtitles, is set in the immediate aftermath of the JVP insurrection of 1971. While the leadership of the JVP, was incarcerated, some JVP activists made attempts to revive their movement. A young Catholic nun in a convent in Colombo, exposed to these activists, develops an empathy with the JVP cause, fired by her sense of injustice. Her engagement with these revolutionaries, soon joined by their leaders who were released from prison in late 1977, takes her on a tumultuous spiritual and political roller-coaster where she finds her loyalties leaning more towards party activism than her religious obligations.
Finally, she reaches a crisis point and is compelled to make a choice between the two, but she continues to question her own decisions in the context of a rapidly changing political landscape in the 1980s and a resultant dramatic shift in the JVP’s outlook and strategy.
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