![]() The screenplay presented by Prasanna Vithanage was initially opposed by the board of directors and he had to submit another script. Purahanda Kaluwara is a film that had to face various obstacles from the very beginning. ![]() Due to this Felix Dias Bandaranaike tried to get an injunction against the film ‘Sagarayak meda’. The politician he portrayed there, Ramanayake, bore a striking resemblance to Felix Dias Bandaranaike, the most powerful minister in the United Front government. Fonseka made the film ‘Sagarayak meda’ depicting the hardships experienced by the entire country like himself during the last government. During the Sirimavo Bandaranaike government he was even attacked by the police for leading a satyagraha. It is no secret that Gamini Fonseka took a pro-UNP stance. Also, the higher seats of the UNP were not so happy about the scene where a giant in the film picks up an elephant and strikes it. But in fact, the ruling elite at the time saw it as a problem to air a film like this at a time when the government was trying to remove history from the school curriculum. The story they used was that the film was an insult to the character of Dutugemunu. ![]() The righteous JR Jayewardene government took action to ban this film. ![]() Unfortunately, this film was only shown in Sri Lanka for one day. That was the production of the first cartoon film in Sri Lanka called Dutugemunu. Brothers Giwantha Arthasad and Dinesh Priyasad did a new job in 1979 to add a new dimension to the film industry in Sri Lanka.
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