Directed by Prasanna Vithanage • Drama • With Sajitha Anthony, Dinara Punchihewa • 2019 • 104 minutes
From Prasanna Vithanage, one of Sri Lanka's most acclaimed directors, comes this sweeping historical drama of a Sinhala noble woman (Dinara Punchihewa) forced to choose between suicide or marriage to a low-caste outcast (Sri Lankan star Sajitha Anuththara) -- the two opposites are forced to depend on each other for survival in the dense forests while the political conflict rages around them.
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