''Leader'' () 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 action thriller film directed by

Ranjan Ramanayake Sadda Vidda Rajapakse Palanga Pathira Ambakumarage Ranjan Leo Sylvester Alfonso (born 11 March 1963) (රන්ජන් රාමනායක), popularly known as Ranjan Ramanayake, is a Sri Lankan actor, film director, singer, script writer ...

and co-produced by Bevan Perera and P. Aruran. It stars

and Adeen Khan, along with

Babu Antony Babu Antony (born 22 February) is an Indian-American actor and martial artist, who works primarily in Malayalam cinema. He has also acted in several Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Sinhalese, Hindi and English films. He started his career doing anta ...

Robin Fernando Pattiyage Robin Steven Fernando (born 15 June 1937 – died 8 January 2022 as රොබින් ප්‍රනාන්දු in inhala, popularly as Robin Fernando, was an actor in Sri Lankan cinema and television as well as a stunt coord ...

and

Anusha Damayanthi Anusha Damayanthi () (born February 11, 1978) is an actress in Sri Lankan cinema and television. She started her career in 1996 from Cheriyo Darling and won ''Dance Stars Dance'' reality show title in 2011 which was telecast on Swarnavahini. Th ...

. Music composed by Suneth Kelum. Public Performance Board of Sri Lanka removed some controversial political parts of the film. Leader is the film in Sinhala cinema history that had been screened with the most number of copies with 50 film theaters. Some of the political clips were removed from the film due to Public Performance Board (PPB). The film was screened free of charge for two weeks from February 27 and producer decided to direct Rs. 1 from each ticket sold in all the theaters to Ranaviru fund. In April 2009, producer donated one day's collection of the film in all 50 theaters to the construction of Jaffna Cultural Center. It is adopted from 1994 Hong Kong Film The Bodyguard From Beijing.

Plot

Pooja is a daughter of a kind politician named Kadirgamar. Kadirgamar wins the election between with a gangster named Raguvaran. Raguvaran kills Kadirgamar in front of Pooja and threatens her.

Cast

as Leader * Adeen Khan as Pooja (Voice By

Anarkali Akarsha Anarkali Akarsha (;born 12 July 1987 as Anarkali Janina Jayatilaka) is a Sri Lankan actress, model, former politician and beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned Miss Sri Lanka 2004 and represented Sri Lanka at the Miss World 2004 beauty pa ...

) *

as Raghuwaran / Kimbulawala Soththi Siran (Voice By Prasanna Fonseka) * Sandun Wijesiri as Kadiragamar *

Rangana Premaratne Rangana Premarathne (Sinhala: රංගන ප්‍රේමරත්න; born 12 January 1959) is an actor in Sri Lankan cinema, theatre, and television. Premarathne has appeared in over 100 films and teledramas, earning numerous accolades, a ...

as Marcus Bandaranayake *

* Janesh Silva as Jonee * Chathura Perera as Ismail *

Anton Jude Anton Jude Gomes, known as Anton Jude (28 November 1960 – 19 March 2012; ඇන්ටන් ජූඩ්) was an actor in Cinema of Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan cinema, stage drama and television. A career spanning for more than three decades, Jude ...

Ronnie Leitch Ronnie Luke Leitch (; 19 October 1953 – 1 October 2018), better known as Ronni Leitch and Thattaya (), was a Sri Lankan actor, comedian, singer, presenter and social activist. Largely popularized as a comedian, Leitch also gained fame for sing ...

* Jeevan Handunnetti * D.B. Gangodathenna * Dasun Madushanka as Pooja's brother

Soundtrack

The songs were composed by Suneth Kalum. The song "Rata Rakaganna" is based on "Arjunaru Villu" from ''

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'' (2004).

References

2009 films 2000s Sinhala-language films {{2000s-SriLanka-film-stub