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Thanha Rathi Ranga [Between Yesterday and Tomorrow]

After the end of a 30-year-old ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, three friends embark on an adventurous journey to a land that was once forbidden but a sudden encounter forces them to return to yet another land of turmoil and terror - A journey in search of soul mates in a soulless world, this film explores the stark reality of the human condition in a post war country []

Director's Biography
Nilendra Deshapriya, studied drama and theatre at school and at the age of fourteen he wrote his first stage play “The Horse Carriage” inspired by the film "Rashoman" by the legendary Akira Kurosawa which became a huge success. He was an active member of the “group 78” at the Lionel Wendt Theatre, a community where the creative elite gathered and produced many theatre productions.

Nilendra Deshapriya embarked on his journey of filmmaking as an assistant director with highly reputed film directors’ in both local and international productions.

Later he rose to become one of Sri Lanka’s most sought after television personalities who introduced the genre Reality TV to Sri Lankan audiences, producing many successful television formats such as Super Star based on singing talent all over the nation which garnered the highest ever television ratings in the history of Sri Lankan television and also the franchised version of “Who Wants To be A Millionaire.”

“Between Yesterday and Tomorrow” is his directorial debut as a filmmaker.

Director’s Statement
This is the story of a journey. A journey toward the beginning. Towards the spirit. Towards our soul.

The three main characters of the film, Wimal, Suraj and Sirithunga, are peculiar creatures, sort of anti-heroes.

Wimal, a three wheeler driver, has had many deceptions in life. He’s impulsive, often crashing into obstacles. His love is violent, almost destructive.

Suraj, more contained, is an oversensitive University student, affected by an unexplained melancholy.

Then there is Sirithunga, a handyman, a father of three young children. Theruni aged 9, Dhamma 5, and Kisagothami 3.

They are strong, independent three men. Through these characters and on a backdrop of a society inflicted in chaos by a 30 year old civil war between the government troops and the LTTE, we paint a portrait of contemporary Sri Lanka.

Three friends, dreaming of a better life, of a future filled with freedom, love, money, belief and belonging, see this future tragically and inescapably disappear before their eyes, revealing to all the cowardly acts, the betrayals and the pettiness of the human soul.

They realise, far too late, that they aren’t strong enough to live out their dreams, that they don’t have the dimensions of the people they dreamed of becoming and that they will pay a heavy price in their fight against the powerful forces of money, greed, destiny, blind love and the manipulation of faith …

After a few happy moments at the beginning of the journey, a fatal incident changes the tone and sets everything adrift. Contrary to their intentions, the men are left to their fates and find themselves lost in the middle of an arid landscape.

They continue along their road, plunging deeper into what proves to be an internal journey. Like Sri Lanka seeking to reclaim its own freedom, the voyage of these three men becomes no less than a quest for their own independence.

I feel like I have found a way of approaching a human and cinematographic perspective that resounds very strongly within me, and that will touch both my own country and the foreign audiences.

These are stories of small men and their minimal conflicts, inserted into big moments of Sri Lanka’s’ recent history

Together with them in the discovery of a new world, of new adventures, of a new soul. Everything seen with the splendour of a land, our land, that still remains unknown even to us.

We believe strongly in the universal meaning of local stories –As they are authentic and therefore very powerful: We insist this film, is not political. It is not an attempt to redeem or explain the Third World to the First. I am drawn to stories through revelations; My narrative intention is to expose certain wounds that did not heal in Sri Lanka. I am most interested in what happens to my characters, even to the supporting characters, which are distant and confused as they are the result of a historical and political time.

Crew
Director/ Producer

Nilendra Deshapriya

Associate Producer/ Associate Director

Nathasha Dream

Producers
H.D. Premasiri

Sunil T Fernando

Executive Producer

Renuka Balasooriya

Script

Sarath Kothalawala

Kumara Thirimadura

Cinematographer

Dhanushka Gunathilake

Production Designer

Rob Nevis

Art Director

Heenatigala Premadasa

Make-up & Hair

Narada Thotagamuwa

Music Composer

Gayathri Khemadasa

Music Director

Anupa Khemadasa Editor

Ravindra Guruge

Assistant Editor

Ajith Ramanayake

Sound Designer

Tapas Nayak

1st Assistant Director

Veronika Marasinghe

2nd Assistant Directors

Vishwa Balasooriya

Udara Abeysundara

Vaathis Varnan

Vasantha Weeraddana

Trainee AD’s

Chanaka Niroshan

Menaka Indrakumar

Still Photographers

Vishwa Balasooriya

Oshadi Senanayake

Titles/Graphics

Sisil Rathnayake

Chief Gaffer

Ariyarathna Perera

Sound Recordist

Priyantha Kaluarachchi

Sound Assistant

Pubudu Dhananjaya

Cast
Sarath Kothalawala

Kumara Thirimadura

Namal Jayasinghe

Sulochana Weerasinghe

Swarna Mallawarachchi

Anoja Weerasinghe

Neeta Fernando

Kamal Addararachchi

Adam Adamally

Dayadewa Edirisinghe

Vishwajith Gunasekara

Wasantha Moragoda

Thumindu Dodanthenna

Priyantha Sirikumara

Amal Perera

Nadeesha Madushani

Sandali Welikanna

Sachin Chathuranga

Nadeeshani Weliwita

Dharanee Kaveesha

Dhanuri Heshara

Isuru Kothalawala

Joe Senevirathna

Sarath Chandrasiri

Dilka Samanmali

Elumalei Pillei

Official Websites
http://thanharathiranga.com

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2548094/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1