Hiripoda Wassa is a 2006 Sri Lankan Sinhala romantic movie directed by Udayakantha Warnasuriya and produced by Soma Edirisinghe for EAP Films. It stars Roshan Ranawana and Pubudu Chathuranga in lead roles along with Chathurika Peiris and Jayalath Manoratne. Music composed by Bathiya and Santhush. They story revolves around young lives engulfed in the challenges in the present-day society, in Sri Lanka. It is the 1063rd Sri Lankan film in the Sinhalese cinema. The film brought Harshini Perera, Jayantha Atapattu and Akila Sandakelum to cinema for the first time.
Plot The story revolves round three teenagers - Prageeth (Roshan), a younger, darker version of Hugh Grant, the son of a business tycoon (Corea), whose fiancé is Veena (Anarkali); Sithum (Pubudu), the son of a Postman (Jayalath) is in love with Pooja, (Chathurika) while Ramith who says he comes from the middle class, and is seduced by his biology teacher who as luck would have it lives in an apartment directly opposite his block of flats, nevertheless, voices every teenagers views of life when he says all he wants to do is to take things easy." (Shape eke jeevath venava).
Cast Roshan Ranawana as Prageeth Justin Molligoda Pubudu Chathuranga as Sithum Panthaka Waduge Jayantha Atapattu as Ramith Kariyapperuma Chathurika Peiris as Pooja Jayalath Manoratne as Sithum's father Akila Sandakelum as Gihan Anarkali Akarsha as Veena Janith Wickramage as Chamara Harshini Perera as Teacher Nilmini Kottegoda as Sithum's mother Mihira Sirithilaka as Sarath Seetha Kumari as Prema Ranjan Ramanayake - himself, special appearance. Jeevarani Kurukulasuriya as Pooja's mother Vijaya Corea as Prageeth's father
Soundtrack
Reception Aditha Dissanayake of Sunday Observer wrote, "Hiripoda Wassa however, is not a movie that would make you think or cry, and no one would dream of using the highest compliment on the tongues of the teenage characters in the movie to describe it."Sunday Observer - 2006/02/19
References
External links Sri Lanka Cinema Database