Cinema
විරාගය
Tissa Abeysekera · 1987
Synopsis
Aravinda, an indecisive young man, gives up medicine, studies chemistry and works in an office. Sarojini, his school friend, more resolute than he is, proposes that he commit himself; he cannot bring himself to do so. When the family house passes to his sister Menaka and her husband, he lives alone; Gunawathie enters his service with her daughter Bathee, and he is the one who has the child educated.
Context
The book from which the film is drawn, published in 1956, was thought impossible to bring to the screen, everything in it taking place in the head of a man who does not act. The director himself wrote the screenplay and made his last film with it. Sanath Gunathilake plays Aravinda, Sriyani Amarasena Sarojini, Sabeetha Perera Bathee. The book has been available in French since 1995, under the title Viragaya ou Le non-attachement.
Who it is for
A slow, inward film in Sinhala; the book it is based on exists in French, and one can read before watching.
Prizes and reception
Twelve awards at the Sarasaviya Awards of 23 July 1988, including those for film, direction, actor and screenplay; regarded as one of the best films of the island.
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