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Prasanna Vithanage: 'Theatrical release is the final litmus test'
Updated On: 16 June, 2024 09:31 AM IST | Mumbai | Sucheta Chakraborty
Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage speaks to Sunday mid-day about his award-winning film geared for release next week, about the island country’s appetite for Malayalam cinema and how mythology becomes a way of putting the the past and present in dialogue
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Paradise, winner of the Kim Jiseok Award for Best Film at the 2023 Busan Film Festival, is slated for a pan-India and worldwide release on June 28. The film sets the story of a Malayali couple’s travels through Sri Lanka against the backdrop of the country’s economic crisis of 2022
In between screenings of his new film at the Sydney Film Festival, Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage speaks to Sunday mid-day about the making of Paradise, his first “Indian language” film produced by the Indian company Newton Cinema and presented by Mani Ratnam’s Madras Talkies, and with Indian leads and crew members, including cinematographer Rajeev Ravi and editor A Sreekar Prasad. Indian support for the film came at a time when the inflation rate in Sri Lanka stood at a staggering 64 per cent. Paradise enters Sri Lanka, literally and figuratively, through the perspective of two outsiders, unconnected with and indifferent to the country’s widespread economic turmoil, but ensures that it invades their lives in more ways than one.
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