Deweni Inima

Deweni Inima
Created by	Saranga Mendis
Written by	Saman Edirimuni
Directed by	Saranga Mendis
Theme music composer	Nimesh Kulasinghe
Opening theme	"Lanwela Wassanaye"[1]
Country of origin	Sri Lanka
Original language(s)	Sinhala
No. of episodes	420
Production
Producer(s)	Chamika Mendis
Running time	~20 mins
Distributor	TV Derana
Release
Original network	TV Derana
Original release	6 February 2017 (2017-02-06)
External links
Website

Deweni Inima is a Sinhalese Sri Lankan television prime-time soap opera which premiered on 6 February 2017 on the TV Derana network. Developed and directed by Saranga Mendis and written by Saman Edirimuni, it has won the Raigam Tele'es, Sumathi and SLIIM Nielson People's Awards.

Plot

Ravi (Bimal Jayakody) urges his son, Awantha (Keshan Shashindra), to break a school cricket record. Ravi watches in the coaches box with Mr. Ekanayake, Samalka (Shanudrie Priyasad) is late for the match, which angers Awantha. While playing cricket, Anuhas (Raween Kanishka) sees Samalka and becomes intrigued. Their first major encounter is when Anuhas collides with Samalka on her bike. Awantha and his friends beat him up. Ravi teases Anuhas; angry, Anuhas goes home and asks his mother Udeni (Himali Sayurangi) how she met Ravi. She tells her story in the presence of her niece, Dewmi (Nayanathara Wickramarachchi).

Awantha is abusive towards Samalka, who in turn dislikes him. Her motorbike breaks down, and Anuhas (who works at his Uncle Ananda's garage) fixes it. Awantha confronts him for talking with Samalka, who becomes friends with Anuhas. Dewmi has fallen in love with Anuhas for some time, however, Anuhas only sees her as a sister. Ravi and Amisha want to help Awantha make the national team and marry the wealthy Samalka. Neither Samalka nor Awantha knows that Samalka has an inheritance of shares. Amisha visits Udeni's juice bar to insult Udeni and Anuhas, and Ananda regularly quarrels with Ravi.

At the boys' school, Anuhas is friends with "Mike" and "Chubby", a duo of comical characters who love free food, and Mike trying to be the "Ladies Man". Anuhas is in the same year level as Awantha, who taunts Anuhas. Awantha is supported by his friends Sheran and Danisha.

When Anuhas prevents Awantha's friend, Danisha, from being beaten by his girlfriend's brother; Danisha leaves Awantha and befriends Anuhas. Anuhas is beaten and hospitalised by the men Anuhas defended Danisha from. Samalka visits him and is seen by Udeni and Ananda. Anuhas learns the truth about Samalka from her diary: her father is dead, and her mother is in a mental institution, much to Samalka's annoyance.

Dewmi feels uneasy when Samalka and Anuhas are together, as she realises that Anuhas does not spend time with her as he used and devotes his time to Samalka. Ananda and his wife approve of the relationship between their son, Dhanuka, and the schoolgirl Malki. When Samalka's birthday comes around, Anuhas plans a surprise birthday party for Samalka and gives her a dress. Dewmi, worried and saddened that Anuhas has gone to host the birthday party, tries to bring him home by feigning an emergency, in order to separate Anuhas from Samalka. This results in Anuhas being angry with Dewmi, saddening her more.

Udeni is reluctant to allow Anuhas to play in the school cricket team, out of fear he will be mocked and his potential overlooked, but Ananda convinces her to send Anuhas to the school cricket team, demonstrating exceptional talent and Coach Ekanayake publicly acknowledges his potential. Seeing that Coach Ekanayake is starting to favour Anuhas, Ravi replaces the coach with a crony, Lionel Sadun. He discriminates and condescends to the players, especially Anuhas, in an effort to make Anuhas hate cricket and leave the team.

While this is happening, Awantha and Sheran notice Dewmi leaving the tuition class one night and decide to jokingly catcall, but then Anuhas comes on his bike and picks Dewmi up. The girls and boys school partner up to put together a concert, featuring skits, songs and dances. This is one of the rare times that the boys and girls interact on school grounds. On the day, Udeni and Dewmi's family arrive to watch when there is a mix up of seating arrangements; which happen to be Ravi and Ameesha's seat. In the proceedings, Udeni has a flashback to a time when she sang "Lanwela Wassanaye" (the theme song) and Ravi snuck in to watch her. Within the concert, Samalka and Dewmi are in a school singing contest, singing their respective songs "Supem Wee" and "Nidi Nena". Awantha bribes a judge to let Samalka win. When Samalka finds out, she gives her prize to Dewmi.

Awantha warms up to Dewmi. Awantha gets low grades, but Anuhas' are high. Dewmi begins to taunt Samalka. Anuhas does not make a team organised for a friendly match. A new girl, Lihini, attends the school. Awantha breaks Anuhas' bat. Samalka offers to help him buy a replacement, but he refuses. Amisha drives Udani's juice bar out of business, and Anuhas must go to work.

Awantha flirts with Dewmi, and Coach Ekanayake returns to school. Anuhas organises a car wash to help Samalka buy a motorbike.

Dewmi sees Awantha bleeding in a three-wheeler and brings him to the hospital. She tries to leave, but the police want to know what happened. Dewmi lies that he was in an auto accident, but he was in a gang fight. The police visit Dewmi's house, which angers her father.

During a school trip, Ekanayake arranges for the cricket team to play a one-day game with an Indian school team. The teachers discuss a new captain, since Awantha has broken Anuhas' bat, gloves and pads. Anuhas becomes the captain.

When it is time to leave for the match, the bus tires are vandalised. Samalka and Anuhas bring her mother to a neurologist.

Anuhas saves Ravi when he is beaten; after several days in hospital Ravi goes abroad, apologising to Udeni by mail for his mistakes and acknowledging her and Anuhas' love before he dies of a heart attack in Australia.

A school committee plans to helping with his funeral. Udeni wants Ananda to attend the funeral, but he is worried that Ameesha will send them away; Ameesha attempts to, outraged that Ravi has provided equally for Anuhas and Awantha. Awantha is courteous to them. Anuhas does not want to accept being Ravi's son, but Awantha persuades him to go. Awantha and Anhas are pallbearers. Udeni tells Anuhas that Ravi loved him and Awantha equally. Awantha overhears, and as Anuhas takes Udeni home he grieves at the pyre.

Cast

• Raween Kanishka as Anuhas Fernando
• Keshan Shashindra as Awantha Fernando
• Nayanathara Wickramarachchi as Dewmi Uththara
• Bimal Jayakody as Ravi Fernando (died)
• Shanudrie Priyasad as Samalka Samadhi
• Himali Sayurangi as Udeni
• Dharmapriya Dias as Ananda
• Rex Kodippili as Ravi's father
• Palitha Silva as Coach Ekanayake
• Anjula Rajapaksha as Amisha
• Anjali Liyanage as Anusha
• Chirantha Ranwala as the principal
• Himaya Bandara as Miss Sonali
• Dev Surendra as Dhanukha
• Denuwan Senadheera as Supun "Mike" Sampath
• Kanishka Prasad as Dasun "Chubby" Chamara^[2]
• Vidushi Uththara as Malki
• Sangeetha Basnayake as Kanthi
• Thrishala Nathashi as Madhuka
• Nilwala Wishwamali as Kalani
• Ryan Van Rooyen As Lionel Sandun
• Salini Fernando as Lihini
• Sachi Wickramasinghe as Mihiri

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Awards

Soundtrack

See also

• Sidu (Malee 3)

References