''Ekamath Eka Rateka (Once Upon a Time)'' () is a 2009

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

n Sinhala drama film directed by

Sanath Gunathilake Somsiri Sanath Julien Gunatilake (born 27 October 1955: Sinhala:සනත් ගුණතිලක), popularly as Sanath Gunatilake, is a Sri Lankan actor, director, screenwriter and former politician.Sanath Gunatilake is a Sri Lankan actor, ...

and produced by Janaka Ramanayake for S.G Enterprises. It stars Sanath Gunathilake and Nirosha Perera in lead roles along with

Chandani Seneviratne Chandani Seneviratne, (born 28 December 1962: ), is an actress in Sri Lankan Cinema of Sri Lanka, cinema, theatre and television. Early days Seneviratne studied at Dharmapala Vidyalaya, Pannipitiya till grade 5 and St. Paul's Girls School, Mil ...

and Semini Iddamalgoda. Music composed by

Premasiri Khemadasa Deshamanya Kala Keerthi Dr. Premasiri Khemadasa ( Sinhala: ආචාර්ය ප්‍රේමසිරි කේමදාස ) (25 January 1937 – 24 October 2008) also known as "Khemadasa Master" was a Sri Lankan music composer. Explorin ...

. The film is influenced by French novel ''Pour une nuit d'amour'' by

Émile Zola Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, ; ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of Naturalism (literature), naturalism, and an important contributor to ...

. It is the 1126th Sri Lankan film in the

Sinhala cinema Sri Lankan cinema encompasses the Sri Lankan film industry. It is a fledgling industry that has struggled to find a footing since its inauguration in 1947 with '' Kadawunu Poronduwa'' produced by S. M. Nayagam of Chitra Kala Movietone. Sri Lan ...

Plot

The main role of this story is a pretty young woman who belongs to a rich, high class family. She is an apple in a provincial city where she lived with her parents. In front of her bungalow, lives a hideous, middle-aged clerk with his pet dog. He is a very reserved person who has no friends and family. This man sees this young lady often, fell in love with her beauty and was dreaming to marry her someday even though his age, look and social status were not up to her family status at all. This girl, who is a sexually dominating character, secretly continues a relationship with a young handsome guy who is the son of their old housemaid who is still serving them in the bungalow. Both this girl and the guy were raised together in this house during their childhood and he later went out of the town to study to become a lawyer. He returns to the town recently, that's when they began their secret relationship. As this girl was displaying her dominate characteristics from her childhood, their relationship was not based on love but lust. However, they both enjoyed the feeling of viciousness in their love. One day the guy gets aroused with her speech and behaviors attempting to rape her, she mistakenly hits him that he ends up hitting his head on an edge of the bed and dies. Now that she realizes she did a mistake, she waves at the hideous clerk who was living in front of her house to come and see her. The man who was being ignored by this woman for so long gets so excited with her invitation goes to her house and offers to help her clean the dead body. The dominating lady feels so helpless and requests the middle-aged clerk to go and throw the dead body of the lawyer to a distant lake and promised to sleep with him one night to return the favor.

Cast

* Nirosha Perera * Roshan Ravindra *

* Semini Iddamalgoda * Leonie Kotelawala *

Tony Ranasinghe Deshabandu Tony Ranasinghe ( 1937 - 2015 ) was an actor in Cinema of Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan cinema, theater and television. Widely regarded as one of the greatest actors in Sinhala cinema of all time, Tony is highly praised for his unique facial e ...

in guest appearance * Himali Sayurangi * Damitha Abeyratne *

Kumara Thirimadura Kumara Thirimadura (; born April 17, 1969) is an actor in Cinema of Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan cinema, stage drama and television. He is an actor, singer, filmmaker and journalist by profession. He is considered one of five actors who have dominated t ...

* Chandana Silva * Kanchana Kodithuwakku

References

2009 films 2000s Sinhala-language films 2009 comedy films Sri Lankan comedy films {{2000s-SriLanka-film-stub