''Kalpanthe Sihinayak'' (''කල්පාන්තයේ සිහිනයක්'') is a 2014 Sri Lankan

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directed by

Channa Perera Deepanath Channa Perera (born 16 August 1974 as :si:චන්න පෙරේරා, චන්න පෙරේරා inhala is an actor in Cinema of Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan cinema and television as well as a filmmaker and screenplay writer. Per ...

and produced by Perly Wijesinghe, Sunethra Balasuriya, Harsha Gamaethige and Asela Amarasiri. It stars Channa Perera and debutant Indian actress Chaithra Chandranth in lead roles along with

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

Hemasiri Liyanage Hemasiri Dhanawatha Liyanage (, born December 25, 1942), is an actor in Sri Lankan cinema, theater, and television. He is well known for the dramatic roles in ''Thattu Gewal'' and ''Thaththa'' teledramas and films ''Sankranthi'', ''Sthuthi Nawa ...

. Music co-composed by

Rohana Weerasinghe Dr. Rohana Weerasinghe (born 18 February 1949) is a Sri Lankan musician, composer and singer. Early life Weerasinghe was born on 18 February 1949 in Algiriya, Matara in southern Sri Lanka. He was the youngest child to his parents Henry Weeras ...

and

Dinesh Subasinghe Dinesh (Devanagari: ') is a common Hindu male given name. The Sanskrit Sanskrit (; stem form ; nominal singular , ,) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose i ...

. It is the 1115th 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 ...

. The film was initially titled ''Miringu Yaathra''. Its plot is based on a King

Ravana According to the Mahakavya, Hindu epic, ''Ramayana'', Ravana was a kingJustin W. Henry, ''Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below'', Oxford University Press, p.3 of the island of Lanka, in which he is the chief antag ...

's missing Ancestry Book which was hidden for more than 5,000 years. The film was shot around Rattota forest areas,

Dambulla Dambulla ( ''Dam̆bulla'', ''Tampuḷḷai'') is a city situated in the north of Matale District, in Sri Lanka's Central Province. It is the second largest populated and urbanised centre after Matale in the Matale District. It is situated ...

, and Kaludiya Pokuna Forest.

Plot

It is essentially a love story between an architect and a beautiful village girl. The architect, Kalpa (Channa), travels to a hill country village for work and it is there that meets Menaka (Chaithra). Kalpana faces many challenges with a local group of thugs secretly investigating King Ravan's Ancestry Book. Menaka is a part of Ravan's Ancestry. Her father was murdered by some hidden enemies because of a conflict over a secret document regarding the Ravan Ancestry. Kalpa gets more intrigued about this matter and turns to the monk at the village temple for advice. The journey to the truth is full of challenges and along the way the duo fall in love.

Cast

as Kalpa Wickramasinghe * Chaithra Chandranth as Menaka aka Menu *

as Mapa *

Iranganie Serasinghe Iranganie Roxanna Meedeniya (born 9 June 1927),"Irangani As Told to Kumar de Silva", Kumar de Silva, Samaranayake Publishers, 2013 best known as Iranganie Serasinghe, is a Sri Lankan actress of theater and television. Since her debut in ''Rekava' ...

as Menu's elder mother *

as Village monk * Nihal Fernando as CID officer * Sandun Wijesiri as Jayatunga * Himali Sayurangi as Padmi * D.B. Gangodathenna * Gunadasa Madurasinghe as Salesman * Saman Almeida as Hilton * Prasanna Fonseka * Kapila Sigera *

Teddy Vidyalankara Ganwari Teddy Vidyalankara (born December 16, 1955, as :si:ටෙඩී විද්‍යාලංකාර, ටෙඩී විද්‍යාලංකාර inhala is a Sri Lankan actor, and stunt director. Vidyalankara contributed more t ...

Music

The music is a collaboration between Dr.

and

. Weerasinghe provided the background score and two songs for the film, whilst Subasinghe prepared the love theme music, the title song and the theatrical trailer music. The vocals were provided by Uresha Raviharee, Sumudu Nimantha Munasinghe, Udaya Wickramasinghe and Ranjan Saliya.

Soundtrack

References

External links

*
Profile at National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka‘කල්පාන්තේ සිහිනයක්’ අතර චන්න පෙරේරාගේ අලුත්ම චිත්‍රපටය
* 2014 films 2010s Sinhala-language films {{2010s-SriLanka-film-stub