Wassane Sihinaya

Wassane Sihinaya or theatrically Senehasaka Sihinaya, (Sinhala: වස්සානේ සිහිනය හෙවත් සෙනෙහසක සිහිනය; lit. 'Dream of Love'), is a 2021 Sri Lankan Sinhala drama thriller film directed and produced by Nihal Sanjaya with the help of Anton Kingsley and Irfan Senudeen who were the previous co-director and producer respectively.[2] The film stars Sanath Gunathilake, Kanchana Mendis, Roshan Pilapitiya in lead roles along with Dayananda Jayawardana, Cletus Mendis and Nilanthi Dias in supportive roles.[3] A special screening of the film was held at the Liberty Scope Cinema in Kollupitiya.[4]

Wassane Sihinaya
Sinhalaවස්සානේ සිහිනය
Directed byNihal Sanjaya
Written byAnton Kingsley
Produced byNihal Sanjaya
StarringSanath Gunathilake
Kanchana Mendis
Roshan Pilapitiya
Cletus Mendis
Nilanthi Dias
CinematographyGanesh Kumar
Edited byAnura Bandara
Music byNavaratne Gamage
Distributed byCEL Theatres [1]
Release date
  • 25 March 2021 (2021-03-25)
CountrySri Lanka
LanguageSinhala

Cast

Production

In the year 2003, renowned film producer Soma Edirisinghe produced a film with the involvement of Indian artists where Nihal Sanjaya was the executive producer and artist coordinator. At that time, Sanjaya started his own production company called 'Kisel Arts'. The film was first produced by a friend of Nihal Sanjaya named Irfan Senudeen.[6] Sanjaya was mostly in China when the film was shot in Sri Lanka under the director Anton Kingsley. After shooting completed, all the post-production work was done in India. This 35mm film was then brought to Sri Lanka. After many years, Sanjaya went back to India and scanned the film in 2K technology and made a digital copy. Irfan, the original producer, had financial problems and sold the entire production rights to the director Sanjaya.[7]

Delay

According to the director, the legal ownership of the film was transferred to him about 12 years ago in 2009. Initially it was titled Senehasaka Sihinaya but the original producer had renamed it Wassane Sihinaya.[8] Even though Censor certificate obtained with the title Wassane Sihinaya in 2009, later National Film Corporation was not aware of that name. At the same time, National Film Corporation claimed that there was an outstanding payment due to an artiste for the film. So, Sanjaya had to wait few more years to clearly absolved of all outstanding payments. Later in 2021, he was able to release the film in CEL circuit with the title Senehasaka Sihinaya.[9]

References
  1. ""Wassane Sihinaya is coming..."". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  2. "The Separating Time Cycle: Wassane Sihinaya". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  3. "'Wassane Sihinaya' coming on March 25". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  4. "Special screening of Senehasaka Sihinaya". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  5. "Kanchana is back On screen". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  6. "Film industry without thinking about the common guard is one of the reasons for the collapse of this industry". Divaina. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  7. "Two names are the same movie: producer -Nihal Sanjaya". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  8. "The next goal is to make a film with local and foreign artists - Nihal Sanjaya". Silumina. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  9. "Nihal Sanjaya trapped in film title muddle says… Deal between producer-exhibitor vital to lift our film industry". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 2021-06-22.


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