Sulang Kirilli
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Sulang Kirilli is a 2002 Sinhalese language feature film
directed by Inoka Sathyangani
which won many Sri Lankan and international awards, deals with a village girl employed in a garment factory, who is caught up between the legal limits of abortion
and societal reactions to an out-of-wedlock birth.
The synopsis of the film
Rathie is a young girl from a remote village, working in a suburban garment factory. She befriends a young soldier and falls in love. They start enjoying each other’s youthful warmth quite freely.
But one fine day Rathie realizes she has conceived with a child. Grappling with this unexpected new realization, she gets carried away in to a world of her own. A Simple and beautiful dream that any young woman would want to build for her with a marriage and a family life. Thus an unspoiled girl from a rural village, she is very stiff and independent to live alone in her own way in a small room in the city.
While she immerses herself quite happily in this elusive world, she jerks herself out of dreams when she gets to know he is a married man. Her world then starts drifting between the two extremes of her dreams and reality. She finds herself enjoying life in the dream world but reality drags her out of it. In the real world she is debarred from bringing up an illegal child without a father by the civil law of the country while depriving her of aborting the pregnancy by the penal code, which considers abortions as a severe criminal offence. A young girl caught in this dilemma condemned by society, is the dream world her only retreat?
A cinematic voyage of two hours between dreams and reality, permit the audience to realize the difference between awakening life through dreams and pushing life to sleep within reality. This provokes a discussion on social realities that one does not encounter openly in society.
- Rathi
Linton Semage - Shanta
Jayani Senanayake - Violet
- XX1 International film festival of Cinemativa del Uruguay in Latin America (Official announcement / The revelation of the year - 2003)
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
directed by Inoka Sathyangani
Inoka Sathyangani
Enokaa Sathyangani Keerthinanda is an internationally acclaimed Sri Lankan film director and producer. In the year 2002, she received critical acclaim for her maiden effort Sulang Kirilli, which deals with the theme of abortion. The film bagged the highest number of awards won by a single film in...
which won many Sri Lankan and international awards, deals with a village girl employed in a garment factory, who is caught up between the legal limits of abortion
Abortion
Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to viability. An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is usually called a miscarriage, or it can be purposely induced...
and societal reactions to an out-of-wedlock birth.
The synopsis of the film
Rathie is a young girl from a remote village, working in a suburban garment factory. She befriends a young soldier and falls in love. They start enjoying each other’s youthful warmth quite freely.
But one fine day Rathie realizes she has conceived with a child. Grappling with this unexpected new realization, she gets carried away in to a world of her own. A Simple and beautiful dream that any young woman would want to build for her with a marriage and a family life. Thus an unspoiled girl from a rural village, she is very stiff and independent to live alone in her own way in a small room in the city.
While she immerses herself quite happily in this elusive world, she jerks herself out of dreams when she gets to know he is a married man. Her world then starts drifting between the two extremes of her dreams and reality. She finds herself enjoying life in the dream world but reality drags her out of it. In the real world she is debarred from bringing up an illegal child without a father by the civil law of the country while depriving her of aborting the pregnancy by the penal code, which considers abortions as a severe criminal offence. A young girl caught in this dilemma condemned by society, is the dream world her only retreat?
A cinematic voyage of two hours between dreams and reality, permit the audience to realize the difference between awakening life through dreams and pushing life to sleep within reality. This provokes a discussion on social realities that one does not encounter openly in society.
Cast
Damitha AbeyratneDamitha Abeyratne
Damitha Buddhini Abeyratne is an award-winning Sri Lankan film and teledrama actress.-Biography:Sedhavi Mudiyanselage Damitha Buddhini Abeyratne Bandara schooled at Samudradevi Balika Vidyalaya, Nugegoda.ST Pauls Milagiriya-Career:...
- Rathi
Linton Semage - Shanta
Jayani Senanayake - Violet
Miscellaneous
Throughout the time the Festival of Cinematica Del Uruguaya was the platform of diffusion between the fans of the Taviani, Wajda, Kieslowski, Zanussi, Tarkovskii, the Kaurismaki brothers. More recently at least three key names of the modern cinema: Theo Angelopoulos, Abbas Kiarostami, Aleksander Sokurov. And young people Argentine, Brazilian, Mexican film directors. Perhaps in XXI the Festival the one of a very young realist had to be gotten up to that list of revelations; Enokaa Sathyangani, from Sri Lanka who had obtained recognition in Asian festivals, had to be gotten up to the above list. In her talented premium Sulang Kirilli (The Wind Bird); reveals the oppression of a woman as a poetic fantasy liberation.- XX1 International film festival of Cinemativa del Uruguay in Latin America (Official announcement / The revelation of the year - 2003)