Prasanna’s ‘Gaadi’ on PEO TV now
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Prasanna Vithanage’s historical drama ‘Children of the Sun’ (Gaadi) is now being screened on PEO TV of Sri Lanka Telecom.
Screened around the world, ‘Gaadi’ won a Special Jury Award at 18th International Dhaka Film Festival and the Emerald Dove Award recently at the Chennai Independent Film Festival held in India. Premiered at the 24th Busan International Film Festival in October 2019, the film was selected as one of the 100 Asian films that audiences should watch by International Film Festival 2019.
Set in 1814 during the era of British colonial era in Ceylon the film depicts what happens after a collaborationist English agent convinces the local Sinhala Buddhist nobility to attempt to overthrow the rival Tamil king. The subsequent military disaster forces a Sinhala noble woman to choose between suicide and marriage to a low-caste outcast.
It was co-produced as a Sri Lankan-Indian joint production by H.D. Premasiri, Sandya Salgado for Film Island, Prasanna Vithanage Productions and Alan McAlex and Ajay Rai for Mumbai-based Jar Pictures, an Indian motion picture production company.
‘Gaadi’ stars Sajitha Anthony together with Dinara Punchihewa who made her debut along with veteran Iranganie Serasinghe and Shyam Fernando and Ravindra Randeniya.
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