Sooriya Arana

there is a village that is full of people who don't have any idea about merit and demerits, Sedaris is a hunter who often hunts animals with his son tikira in order to make their daily livelihood, one day an elderly monk entered the village along with his little disciple monk who is same as same age as tikira , people found it strange to see a monk in their village, soon the two monks starts living in the den which is located in the forest in order to focus on meditation, soon the elderly monk witness the sins committed by villagers and advice them to prevent themselves from sins in order to live happy and healthy life he also explained that evil-doing will only bring them pain and defame while good workout will bring them to prosper and happiness, soon the villagers were impressed with the kindness of the two monks and often visits the den in order to pay their respect toward them , however sedaris was enraged with this cause he found the two monks as biggest hurdles to his hunting career and often tried to chase them away from the village with many attempts , but despite of his several attempts he failed to chase the monks from the den, tikira his son who same age as the little monk soon befriends with the little monk , and starts hanging out and playing with them , gradually the little monk explained tikira the difference between goodness and evilness, sedaris who got enraged even more due to the sudden change of his son develops more hate toward the eldery monk despite of his kind behavior toward sedaris , however soon the villagers get to know about his conspiracy of Sedaris towards the monk and starts chasing him throughout the forest in order to punish him for his evil deed, in attempt of saving himself from the wrath of angry people Sedaris end up getting badly injured by his own trap which he had laid in order to kill animals , despite of sedaris's evil doing two monks helped him in the compassion of humankind, soon Sedaris realised his mistakes and seeks forgiveness from the monks, the monks forgave him without even thinking twice , sedaris who later get impressed with buddha dharma and simple and happy lifestyle of monks allowed his son to follow the root of dharma while making his Buddhist disciple of the eldery monk.

• Jackson Anthony as Sediris
• Jayalath Manoratne as Loku Hamuduruwo
• Sajitha Anthony as Tikira
• Dasun Madusanka as Sumedha 'Podi Hamuduruwo'
• G.R Perera as Arachchila, Village headman
• D.B. Gangodathenna as Peethara Mama
• Duleeka Marapana as Sediris's wife
• Jayani Senanayake as Sediris's concubine
• Giriraj Kaushalya as Salesman
• Ariyasena Gamage as Korala
• Pramudi Karunarathna as Tikira's sister
• Bertie Nihal Susiripala

The film received positive reviews and became the highest grossing Sri Lanka film till the date with 12 SL Crores.[7][8][9] It successfully passed 100 days and earned Rs.11 million for 104 days at Savoya Cinema alone. At the end of May 2004, it earned Rs. 78 million island wide.[10]

The film was critically adjudged by many local and international film festival and won many awards as well.[12]

• Sooriya Arana at IMDb
• Synopsis and brief review at FilmsLanka