Aganthukaya

Aganthukaya

ආගන්තුකයා

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Film No: 1068  ·  Released: 01 Jun 2007

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NameAganthukaya / ආගන්තුකයා
English TitleThe Visitor
Film No1068
Released Date01 Jun 2007
ColorimeterColor
Movie GroupSinhala
CategoryDrama
CompanyNational Film Corporation of Sri Lanka
Main Actor: Saumya Liyanage Main Actress: Chandani Seneviratne Director: Wasantha Obeysekara

Description

A special

bouquet should go to Saumya Liyanage whose excellent

performance is evident throughout the whole film. With his

powerful facial expressions, Saumya has been able to mark his

name for the much-needed talent to today's silver screen.

Chandani Seneviratne playing his wife and a teacher - gives

him splendid support as well. Sanath Gunatilake, Giriraj

Kaushalya, Nimal Anthony and Damayanth Fonseka play the other

supporting roles.

Capturing the visuals that suits the vision of the

director, Ruwna Costa plays a vital role with his camera

while Rohana Weerasinghe with his music in the film proves

his excellent ability to adapt to the medium well. Classy

editing of Ravindra Guruge and Lal Harendranath's art

direction has played a applauding role for the film.

Screenplay is written and directed by Vasantha

Obeysekara.

Made

under the film development fund given by the National Film

Corporation (NFC), Aganthukaya is one success story producing

one of the finest piece of recent cinema.

The story

revolves around a principal who comes to an ordinary school

following a transfer. With hard work and honest service

Sampath, the principal ably played by Saumaya Liyanage soon

improves the education and develops the school to be one the

most popular and top schools in the area area. He puts up a

new building for the school without giving the contract to

supporters of politicians and also refuses to accept any

commission. When the admission of the children to the Grade 1

begins, he sticks to the regulations and does not bend to

political influences or money. Determined to live up to the

principles he believes in Sampath is soon subject to the

wrath of the politicians in the area and his henchmen who

work as teachers in the very same school.

The police,

politicians and all come together to attack this single man.

The principal is politically and financially victimized. He

is forced to leave the house he had rented and to mortgage

the house he was building for his family to face lawsuits

filed against him.

He is also beset with

a malady of recurring remembrance of the murder of his father

before his very eyes. At last Sampath realizes the bitter

reality that he is not the only sufferer of his decision to

live up to the principles he believed in but his family, his

wife and daughter. Now he has to make a decision.

Each and every

event that a principal faces and is forced to face is not

alien to people in today’s society. The grim reality in

our system of education, which is politicized and corrupt

like everything else is aptly described and analyzed in the

frames of Vasantha's film.

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