Sulanga Enu Pinisa’ removed from Cinema Theatres

(23rd September,2005 - 13:45 S.L.T)

The National Film Corporation has decided to stop screening the Sinhala film ‘Sulanga Enu Pinisa’ from the cinema theatres immediately which won an international award at the Cannes Film Festival in France recently.

There had been severe critics on the film accusing that the director Vimukthi Jayasundara has tried to ridicule the armed forces and village lads and these characters are only fabrications which are not found in the relevant sectors.

It is learnt that the ban on screening has resulted the above reasons. However the producer of the film Mr Upul Shantha Sannasgala has filed a case against this decision alleging that this has been done to allocate another new film in the Corporation theatres and said that he will remove the film from other centres as well against this decision.