Getawarayo is a 1964 Sri Lankan drama film starring Gamini Fonseka.
The movie won the Best Director and Best Film awards at the 1965 Sarasaviya Film Festival.
Synopsis
A village fisherman Jayasena Fernando (Gamini Fonseka) acquires a job in the city at the company where his friend Semanaris (Joe Abeywickrama) works. As Jaya becomes successful he draws the ire of rich boatsman Lalith Hettiarachchi and the interest of his boss's daughter Surangani (Nilmini De Silva). Jaya gradually forgets about his former girlfriend Karuna (Sobini Amarasinghe) (after a misunderstanding with her brother) and begins vying for Sue's attention. In the end Jaya realizes that Sue doesn't matter to him and that he loves Karuna. He decides to go back home after beating Lalith in a motor boat race. Karuna however has married when Jaya returns and the film ends with him contemplating his future to the strains of Amaradeva's voice.
Réalisé parPatricia Plattner OrigineFrance GenresDrame ActeursJean-François Balmer, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Gamini Fonseka Note47% Orientaliste de renommée internationale, John Billeter, dit JB, a accepté de revenir au Sri Lanka à la demande de l'Unesco pour déchiffrer un livre de cristal, traité de la mémoire que Bouddha dicta dans son grand âge. Découvert non loin de la région dominée par les Tamouls, ce livre est un défi pour JB et son passé assombri par le suicide de sa femme. C'est au Sri Lanka qu'il l'avait rencontrée, qu'ils s'étaient aimés et que le drame avait eu lieu. Sur l'île déchirée par la guerre, il rencontre plusieurs personnages marquants...
, 1h45 Réalisé parLester James Peries OrigineSri Lanka GenresDrame ActeursHenry Jayasena, Gamini Fonseka Note67% Piyal (Henry Jayasena) is a handsome young teacher who is hired to teach English to Nanda (Punya Heendeniya), a member of a high class family. They fall in love, but can't elope because Piyal is of a lower class. Nanda's parents instead push her into a marriage with Jinadasa (Gamini Fonseka), who is of the same class as them. With economic downturn in Sri Lanka, both families lose their status and Jinadasa leaves to try to make a better life for himself; he never achieves his goal and dies penniless. Piyal and Nanda can now finally come together. They have changed however, and the earlier idylic nature of their relationship is not recaptured.