Adaraneeya Kathawak

Adaraneeya Kathawak
Theatrical release poster
Sinhalese	ආදරණීය කතාවක්
Directed by	Priyantha Colombage
Produced by	Chaminda Gamage Priyantha Colombage
Written by	Uwani Chamika Priyantha Colombage
Starring	Hemal Ranasinghe Udari Warnakulasooriya Bimal Jayakody Aruni Rajapaksha
Music by	Udara Samaraweera
Cinematography	Ruwan Costa
Production companies	Creative Force Productions
Release date	10 June 2016 (2016-06-10)
Running time	126 minutes
Country	Sri Lanka
Language	Sinhala
Budget	LKR 30 million [1]

Adaraneeya Kathawak (English: A Melody Of Love) is a 2016 Sri Lankan Sinhala romantic musical film, directed and co-produced by Priyantha Colombage.^[2] It was released on 10 June 2016.^[3] Starring Hemal Ranasinghe, Udari Warnakulasooriya, Bimal Jayakody and Aruni Rajapaksha in the lead roles.^[4] The film has influenced by romantic musical Bollywood film Aashiqui 2.

Background

A famous singer named Abhimana Jayawardhane (Hemal Ranasinghe) was invited to participate to a reality show as a judge. At first, he refused to attend the show but in the end, he agreed to attend the show because of the request of Dewli (Aruni Rajapaksha) who was famous for girlfriend of Abhimana.

Abhimana begun to like a competitor named Piyawi Hansika (Udari Warnakulasuriya) out of many competitors in the show because of her talent. His decision was Piyawi should go ahead in the show but this was unliked by Dewli due to the jealousyness towards the Piyawi. Piyawi is a costume sales assistant from a rural village. Her only goal to win the competition and to provide money to her illed father by the prize of the competition. But she was disqualified by the next round but no one imagined that she would be removed from the show because of her talentness.

Abhimana inquired and blame Dewli regarding the removal of Piyawi from the reality show. Because of unjustified decision of the programme, he leave the reality show as a judge. But Piyawi thinks that Abhimana is the reason why she was out from the programme and she was angry about the reason.

After all disputes, Piyawi step back to her village to carry out her family routine however she can. Piyawi joins as a maidservant in the kitchen of a restaurant. One day, Abhimana step into the restaurant with his manager named Uvindu (Bimal Jayakody). Piyawi and Abhimana met coincidently there. Piyawi blame out Abhimana that he is the key reason why she is out from the competition.

Because of this incident, Abhimana get shocked and more anger. Even newspapers also publish this news as a hit. Abhimana's biggest problem was why he was blamed out by Piyawi. Abhimana and Uvindu go to the remote village where Piyawi live to find an answer.

Meanwhile, father of Piyawi dies. Abhimana step into the house of Piyawi and get blamed again by the Saddened Piyawi. The reason is not so difficult to realize Abhimana that this was happened by a misunderstanding. After explaining Piyawi about the incident, Abhimana and Uvindu invited her to come Abhimana's house and go back to Colombo.

After all, Piyawi asks forgiveness from Abhimana and asks for her lost job. Abhimana explains the talent of her and ask to join for his next concert as his co-singer.

Does she agree to attend the concert? What will happen to the fate of Abhimana and Piyawi? Will Dewli peer into their life?

All these problems get answered by the film Adaraneeya Kathawak.

Cast

• Hemal Ranasinghe as Abhimana Jayawardena
• Udari Warnakulasooriya as Piyawi Hansika
• Bimal Jayakody as Uvindu
• Aruni Rajapaksha as Dewli
• Morin Charuni as Mother of Piyawi
• Suranga Ranawaka as Friend of Piyawi
• Saranga Disasekara in a cameo appearance
• Srinath Maddumage in a cameo appearance

Production

Casting

The leading actor, Hemal Ranasinghe was chosen by the director Priyantha Colombage after Hemal's performance in 2015 movie Pravegaya. Udari Warnakulasuriya and Aruni Rajapaksha were chosen by the auditions of the film. Bimal Jayakody is chosen personally by Priyantha Colombage for the leading supporting role in the film because of his talentness.^[5]

Music

Adaraneeya Kathawak
Soundtrack album by Udara Samaraweera
Released	2016
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	29:17

The music for Adaraneeya Kathawak was composed by Udara Samaraweera, with lyrics written by Upul Shantha Sannasgala, Nilar N.Kasim, Nandana Vikramage, Chaminda Gamage, and Priyantha Colombage.

Reception

Adaraneeya Kathawak received mostly positive response from the critics. Most reviews praised director Priyantha Colombage and stated that this was the best creation among his films.^[6]

Buddhadasa Galapaththi of Dinamina praised the performance of the leading casts of the film. He mostly praised the performance of Bimal Jayakody in the film.^[7]

Release

Premiere of the film at Regal Cinema, Colombo

The first teaser was released on 14 October 2015, and was well received by critics and audiences.^[8] The first song, "Adare", was released on 11 August 2015.^[9] The film was originally planned for release in May 2016, but it was postponed due to production delays.^[10]

The film was released on 10 June 2016. It premiered on the 10 June 2016 at the Regal Cinema, Colombo at 6.30 pm.^[11]

After the release of this film, a film permit granted by the Censor Board said that the case file to excessive smoking and drug uses. The director and the assistant director were acquitted of support and pointed out that the effects of these drugs by the youth. The case was filed while the film making new box office records in Sri Lanka.^[12]

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