'ABA' : A Historical Movie

ABA

'අබා'

Talented dramatist, actor and filmmaker, Jackson Anthony is present his second sinhala movie about historical epic. It name called 'Aba' is the historical story of Prince Pandukabhaya. He is very popular historical hero in Sri Lankan history. He brought all clans in the country to under the one rule.

By the Jackson Anthony is said about this film:

[" The story for my film is set in the 4th Century BC. It is about the rise the of Ruhunu dynasty and the childhood of kind Pandukabhaya. As a child he was called Aba and the story unds up to the age he becomes ‘Pandukabhaya’. There is a belief that originally Sri Lankan started from ‘Vijaya’ but by the time Vijaya came to Sri Lanka there were over hundreds of civilizations around the country. People of these civilizations existed lond after that event and even the present generation carry their genes. The story of the film is a fact which even rock inscriptions of the period of the Ruhunu Kingdom bear proof.

We saw this with the recent box office Hollywood films like “The lord of the ring” Harry Potter” or even the animation films like “Ice Age” These fall into the category of family films. Earlier the definition for the family films were stories that revolve around the issues of family. But this has changed now. "

(Interview with Jackson Anthony, Extract from 'TV Times – 16 June 2007 at THE SUNDAY TIMES') ]

This film is produced by Mr. Jastin Benaragama & Mrs. Rajindra Jayasinghe for Mandakini Creations. They put to 50 Millions for this.

Production Team :

Director: Jackson Anthony, Asst. Director: Anura Wijesinghe, Camera: Suminda Weerasinghe, Music: Nadeka Guruge, Art By Udaya Subodi Kumara, Make-up: Wasantha Wittachchi, Editing By Ravindra Guruge, Dancing Director: Chandana Wickramasinghe, Cast: Sajitha Anuththara, Shiyantha Mendis, Saumaya Liyanage, Malini Fonseka and more than 500 actors/actress .etc...

And ending this, we extract again Mr. Jackson Anthony:

[" Nationalism and racism are two completely different concepts. Nationalism is something very positive whereas racism is a virus. But unfortunately, in our society nationalism had been overtaken by racism and anybody with nationalistic feelings is labeled a racist. And these two have been misinterpreted as one. In fact this is one reason why the younger generation does not respect nationalistic ideas. We have to separate these two, but we cannot do this by war. Like a swan which can separate water from milk, I believe that it is only an artiste who could separate nationalism from racism from our society.

My attempt is not to boost the morale of the army and encourage war or to be a mouthpiece of those who propagate the virus of racism. In fact at the time of ‘Pandukabhaya’ there was no racial problem or ethnic differences yet he united all the clans like ‘Yaksha’ etc and brought them under one ruler. "

(Above Interview with TV Times) ]

Reference:

http://www.aba.lk/