Kadawunu Poronduwa

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Kadawunu Poronduwa
Image:Kadawunuporonduwa1.jpg Rukmani Devi in a scene
Directed by	B.A.W. Jayamanne
Starring	Rukmani Devi
Music by	Rukmani Devi
Distributed by	Minerva Group
Release date(s)	Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg January 21, 1947
Country	Sri Lanka
Language	Sinhala

Kadawunu Poronduwa (Sinhala, "The Broken Promise") was the first film to be made in the Sinhala language; it is considered to be the beginning of Sri Lankan cinema. The film was produced in India however, and is highly derivative of South Indian films. It was first shown on January 21, 1947 at the Kingsley Cinema in Colombo.

A remake was released in 1982.

1 Production
2 Plot
3 Triva
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Production

Kadawunu Poronduwa was at first a successful play for dramatist B.A.W. Jayamanne. In 1947 he filmed and processed the movie in South India.^[1]

Kadawunu Poronduwa produced a formula that Sinhala films would follow up through the 1960s; Jayamanne describes the formula as such^[1]:

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The duration of a film had to be two and a half hours. One hour of this had to be given to scenes with dialogue. Half an hour to songs (about ten), another half hour given to silent background scenes, with an interval of fifteen minutes.

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[edit] Plot

The film is a sentimental melodrama that follows the romance between the two lead characters Samson (Eddie Jayamanne) and Ranjani ( Rukmani Devi). The repressive mother of the protagonist forbids her daughter to break constraints placed by their society and culture in a major plot device.^[1]