Haara Kotiya

Haara Kotiya හාර කෝටිය
Genre	Mystery Thriller Romantic
Created by	Saddha Mangala Sooriyabandara
Developed by	Thiwanka Udagedara
Directed by	Jayaprakash Shivagurunathan
Creative director(s)	Manoj Wickremasinghe Jayantha Abeyratne Amila Premarathne
Starring	Saranga Disasekara Ruwan Perera Rohan Wijetunge Dinithi Walgamage Suraj Mapa
Voices of	Shyamen Dangamuwa
Theme music composer	Dinesh Dissanayake
Opening theme	Heena Thibunata Kotiyak Athe Na Eka Rupiyalak
Composer(s)	Dinesh Dissanayake
Country of origin	Sri Lanka
Original language(s)	Sinhala
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	259 (1 January 2018)
Production
Production location(s)	Rajagiriya
Cinematography	Thusitha Anuradha
Editor(s)	Thiwanka Udagedara
Running time	17 to 20 minutes
Distributor	Swarnavahini
Release
Original network	Swarnavahini
Picture format	HDTV
Original release	2017 (2017) – 1 January 2018
Chronology
Followed by	Kotipathiyo
External links
Website

Haara Kotiya (Sinhalese: හාර කෝටිය) is a 2017 Sri Lankan mystery thriller teledrama broadcast on Swarnavahini.^[1] The series is produced by Jayaprakash Sivagurunathan and written by Sadha Mangala Sooriyabandara. It aired every weekday from 6.30 PM to 7 PM and then 9 PM to 9.30 PM onwards. The series was ended on 1 January 2018 at 9 PM.

It stars Saranga Disasekara, Ruwan Perera and new comer Dinithi Walgamage in lead roles along with Rohan Wijetunga and Suraj Mapa in supportive roles. The show becomes a popular program with few episodes initially and was nominated for Sumathi Awards and Raigam Tele'es in many award categories.^[2]

Haara kotiya 2, titled as Kotipathiyo was started on 2 January 2018.

Plot

Lara (played by Saranga Disasekara) and Dinka (played by Ruwan Perera) are two friends who live in a slum close to a city. They are both unemployed, having tried many day-to-day jobs, but neither of them having success. Their fates are changed when two men throw away a bag and are subsequently caught by the police. The news that a bank was robbed and the suspects arrested spreads fast. However it is revealed that the money is still missing. Lara and Dinka find the bag thrown by the men and take it to their home in secret. They find out that the bag is full of money, exactly four hundred million rupees. The duo starts to hide the money in various places, but decides not to use any of it until the news of the robbery dies down.

Meanwhile, Lara sees a girl at the city and follows her up to the dancing class. He get to know that, she is Abhisheka (played by Dinithi Walgamage) and a wealthy women. Lara also attends dancing class but with interruptions led him to thrown away from the class. Within few months, Abhisheka and Lara become friends and Lara hide his real identity and introduce him as Lal. When these all happens, a pick-pocket thief Chamiya (played by Kasun Chamara) was shot dead at a robbery and his mentor Ranji (played by Rohan Wijetunga) is criticized by everyone in the slum. With his partner dies, Ranji soon investigate that Lara and Dinka has a secret. Ranji follows them several times and asked them about their secret. However, no one tell the story and police also starts to find money in the slum. Lara get to know that robbed money was actually a property of Abhisheka's father. Ranji shows a love interest towards Lara's widow sister Aruni (played by Nirosha Thalagala) several times, but she never care about him.

The robbers released by the jail and the head of the robber appears as Napoleon (played by Suraj Mapa) who is a mastermind thug in the underworld. Napoleon also starts to find his money and reveals that someone in the slum should take the money and hide it. He kidnaps Ranji and beat him until release and follows him to search other young ones in the slum. Meanwhile, Ranji revealed that Dinka and Lara took the robbed money and joins them to share it equally. Again Ranji was kidnapped by Napoleon gang and this time, Dinka and Lara beat the gang and rescue Ranji. The trio then start to share money and only Ranji got money at the time where police revealed the truth. Lara and Dinka was arrested and truth about money was revealed. With the news spreading in the slum, Ranji pick money and was shot by the police. Ranji was hospitalized and police found that money was faked. Dinka and Lara was released on bail, but Ranji was kept close, whereas Napoleon also searches pure money.

Abhisheka understand the truth of Lara and starts to hate him. However, meanwhile her new boyfriend Dilan (played by Gawindha Nawarathne) starts a fight and wrath with Lara. Lara was kidnapped by Dilan and Lara get to know that Dilan and Napoleon as underworld partners and Dilan is the main body behind the robbery. Dilan had a mastermind plan to hook up with Abhisheka and dominate her money. Lara escaped from thugs and asks help from Dinka and Ranji to save Abhisheka from Dilan. Many things went wrong way to them, where Dilan tied his relationship with Abhisheka step by step. Meanwhile, police found fake money from Abhisheka's home and arrests her father. With all money was caught by the police, only Ranji had few lakhs from previous sharing. However, Lara found that Dinka also has some money with him, he joins Ranji to further works.

Before arrest by the police, Dinka gives some money to Diliya (played by Shenali Fonseka). After bailing up, Diliya express her love to Lara and Lara slap her and gets angry with her. Dinka interfere the battle of Lara and Diliya, settle down it. However, he later starts to flirt around Dili and move away from Lara and Ranji. Lara and Ranji tries many ways to reveal the truth of Dilan to Abhisheka, but all became failures. Dilan tries many times to catch Lara and crew, but he also lost his way due to cunny escapes by Lara. With all these, Dilan discuss with the parents of Abhisheka to engage with her and Napoleon starts to flirt around Abhisheka's friend Rashmi (played by Sandali Fernando). On the wedding day, Lara kidnaps Abhisheka with the help of Dinka and Ranji and hide her until convince her about the truth of Dilan. The news spread and Victor informs police to investigate about his missing daughter. Dilan asks help from Napoleon to find Abhisheka. Gangs of both Dilan and Napoleon search Lara and friends many times, but gets beaten by them.

One day, Abhisheka escape from Lara's gang and flee to her home to tell the truth. In the meantime, Lara with the help of Dinka and Ranji kidnap Dilan and his two men in the night. Abhisheka tells the truth that Lara kidnap her and hid in their place. Police started to search Lara and crew, but never found. By using Dilan's phone, Dinka tell the truth of Dilan and his secret agent in Abhisheka's house. Later, Abhisheka and Rashmi found that, Manoja, the servant girl is the undercover agent of Dilan. With the truth reveals and police reach to the house, Manoja flee from the house. Without a news from Dilan, Victor and police start to track Lara and crew. Dinka inform Abhisheka to come and meet her. Rashmi tells all news to Napoleon and Napoleon send his gang to rescue them and seize Lara and crew. At the Dilan's house, Napoleon gang and Lara gang combats with gun shots and Napoleon's man fell down. Then the crew fall back and meanwhile Dilan also escape by threatening Lara. Dilan capture Abhisheka and Dilan reveals his truth to all of them. While escaping, Dilan shot at Abhisheka and she seriously injured by the shot. Dilan escape and hide under Napoleon's protection.

Abhisheka soon get to know that Lara seriously love her. She also turns to her, but Lara started to reject her stating their family backgrounds are not equal. Meanwhile, Dilan started to kill Lara and Napoleon. Rashmi starts to flirt around Napoleon, but he refuse her. After healing, Abhisheka secretly meet Lara to tell about her love to him. But at that moment, Dilan appears and start to shot at Lara. However, at the fight, one of Napoleon's henchman shot Dilan and escapes. Police enter to the scene and arrest Lara and Ranji. Abhisheka disappointed from Lara's response and went abroad with her family. Dili also flee from slum. In the end credits, it is revealed that Dinka was the mastermind behind all the scenes. He faked his friends and secretly kept the money. He was also the man that produced black money and accused Abhisheka's father.

Cast and characters

Critical Response

Despite being usual romantic television serials made by Sivagurunathan, the plot of Haara Kotiya expressed beyond those expectations. The series has been shot around slums and towns around Rajagiriya. The story deals with life in the slums and its related complications. However, the plot also explains the love between different levels and journey to become rich and wealth. This changed plot and acting credentials by the actors gave the drama to become one of the most popular television serials in the Sri Lanka. The title song Heena Thibunata Kotiyak by Shyamen Dangamuwa became a popular hit as well.^[4][5]

Accolades

Haara Kotiya 2 - Kotipathiyo

Kotipathiyo කෝටිපතියෝ
Genre	Mystery Thriller Romantic
Created by	Sadha Mangala Sooriyabandara
Developed by	Thiwanka Udagedara
Directed by	Jayaprakash Shivagurunathan
Creative director(s)	Manoj Wickremasinghe Jayantha Abeyratne Amila Premarathne
Starring	Saranga Disasekara Rohan Wijetunge Thushini Fernando Ruwan Perera
Voices of	Shyamen Dangamuwa
Theme music composer	Dinesh Dissanayake
Opening theme	Kotipathiyo Duk Widinawa Kamara Athule
Composer(s)	Dinesh Dissanayake
Country of origin	Sri Lanka
Original language(s)	Sinhala
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	196 (as of 2 October 2018)
Production
Production location(s)	Rajagiriya
Cinematography	Thusitha Anuradha
Editor(s)	Thiwanka Udagedara
Running time	17 to 20 minutes
Distributor	Swarnavahini
Release
Original network	Swarnavahini
Picture format	HDTV
Original release	January 2, 2018 (2018-01-02) – present
Chronology
Preceded by	Haara Kotiya
External links
Website

Kotipathiyo (කෝටිපතියෝ) is a 2018 Sri Lankan mystery thriller teledrama broadcast on Swarnavahini, it is the sequel to Haara Kotiya.^[7] The series is produced by Jayaprakash Sivagurunathan and written by Sadha Mangala Sooriyabandara. It airs every weekday from 6.00 pm to 6.30 pm and then 9 pm to 9.30 pm onwards. The series was started on 2018, where Saranga Disasekara reprise his role in first season along with many others.^[8]

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