Maya 3D
| Maya 3D | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Sinhalese | මායා 3D |
| Directed by | Donald Jayantha |
| Produced by |
Raja Sadesh Kumar Srimathi Sadesh Kumar |
| Written by | original version Raghava Lawrence Raja Sadesh Kumar |
| Screenplay by | Pubudu Chathuranga |
| Based on | Raghava Lawrence's Indian film(Tamil language) Kanchana |
| Starring |
Ranjan Ramanayake Pubudu Chathuranga Shehara Hewadewa |
| Music by | Bathiya and Santhush |
| Cinematography | Ayeshmantha Hettiarachchi |
| Edited by | Pravin Jayaratne |
Production company |
Real Image Creations |
| Distributed by | EAP Film Circuit |
Release date | 14 September 2016 |
| Country | Sri Lanka |
| Language | Sinhalese |
| Box office | 7 LKR Crores (in 31days) |
Maya (Sinhalese: මායා 3D) is a 2016 Sri Lankan Sinhala 3D action horror film directed by Donald Jayantha and co-produced by Raja Sadesh Kumar and Srimathi Sadesh Kumar. It stars Ranjan Ramanayake, Pubudu Chathuranga in lead roles along with Giriraj Kaushalya, Nilmini Kottegoda and Upeksha Swarnamali.[1][2][3] It is the 1257th Sri Lankan film in the Sinhala cinema.[4] The film is based on Indian Tamil film Kanchana directed by Raghava Lawrence.
Plot
Malan (Pubudu) is a jobless youth who spends his days playing cricket with friends. He suffers from an irrational fear of ghosts and retreats to the safety of his home after sunset. His fear is so great he prefers to sleep with his mother Geetha (Nilmini) and have her accompany him to the bathroom at night, and also at the eating time. This creates major annoyance in the household, including Malan's brother Gamini (Giriraj), sister-in-law Nirmala (Upeksha) and their children.
One night, Malan engaged with a girl Shaini (Shehara) and flirts to gain her attraction, but did not reveal it. Shaini also had some attraction to Malan and she started to flirt around him as well. Meanwhile, one day, Malan and his friends are forced to abandon their usual cricket ground and find a new one; one friend select an abandoned ground which is rumored to be haunted. A bizarre weather change scares them away. Malan brings home his cricket stumps, which have been stained with blood from a buried corpse in the ground. He focuses on wooing Shaini, where she asked Malan to come to a dinner. But as he is fear for ghosts, he went to the hotel with all his family. At the dinner, however, Malan's mother agreed on their relationship and fixed a date to meet Shehara'a family. In the following days, his mother and sister-in-law are witness to several paranormal phenomena at night; prominently a ghost haunting the hallways. On consulting am exorcist (Sarath), they perform 3 rituals to ascertain if the house is haunted:
1. They keep a coconut on a rangoli and pray with chants. The coconut rotates on its own.
2. They keep an egg on a pan and see whether it turns color or explode it.
3. They leave a lit lamp and two drops of blood and leave the house. A ghost of a woman appears before them and licks the blood.
Scared senseless, Malan's mother and sister-in-law hire two priests (Nandana and Gunadasa) to rid their home of the ghost. The priests, however, are conmen, and escape with their lives. That night, the ghost possesses Malan, who begins acting increasingly effeminate, alienating himself from Shaini and wearing women's clothes and jewelry. His family angrily confronts him, when it is revealed that there are actually three ghosts who have possessed him: a violent woman, a Tamil-speaking Muslim, and a mentally retarded boy. With the possession, Malan kills a women by hanging and a thug Wasantha by engraving him with his van. Malan's family ask Buddhist monk, who successfully drives the spirit away from Malan's body. The ghost of the woman, trapped, reveals her story.
Maya (Ranjan) is a transgender who was disowned by her father (Thirimadura). She is offered shelter by a kind Muslim Ramu (Nihal), who has a mentally retarded son (Mihira). Regretting that she couldn't become a doctor as she intended, she adopts another young transgender, Rekha (Sujeewa), and works hard to support her financially. When Rekha leaves to study medicine abroad, Maya buys a plot of land where Rekha intended to construct a hospital for the poor. That ground is unlawfully taken by a member of parliament (Srimal). Maya angrily confronts the minister, who cunningly kills her. He also kills Ramu and his son. Before she died, she vowed to kill minister, his wife, and his henchmen Shantha (Wasantha). The bodies are then buried in Mala's own ground.
The Buddhist monk sympathizes with her, but remains duty-bound and traps her. After hearing her story, Malan is touched; risking the danger, he allows Maya to possess him once again. Malan/Maya confronts the minister, and disposes of his henchmen gruesomely. The minister seeks refuge in a Kali temple which Maya is forbidden from; but she asks the deity for justice and manages to chase him inside the temple. The three spirits combined kill the minister. A few years later, Malan has constructed the hospital for Rekha as per Maya's wishes. It is revealed that Maya exists symbiotically in Malan's body to help him out when the need rises.
Cast
- Ranjan Ramanayake as Maya
- Pubudu Chathuranga as Malan
- Shehara Hewadewa as Shaini
- Giriraj Kaushalya as Gamini
- Nihal Fernando as Ramu
- Sujeewa Priyalal as Rekha
- Nilmini Kottegoda as Geetha
- Sarath Chandrasiri as Kapuwa
- Wasantha Kumaravila as Shantha
- Ishan Gammudali as Buddhist monk
- Somy Ratnayake as Principal
- Upeksha Swarnamali as Nirmala
- Srimal Wedisinghe as Minister
- Mihira Sirithilaka as Ramu's son
- Kumara Thirimadura as Maya's father
- Damitha Abeyratne as Shantha's fiancée
- Anura Bandara Rajaguru as Swami
- Maureen Charuni as Rekha's mother
- Ramani Siriwardena as Shaini's mother
- Nandana Hettiarachchi as Con Priest
- Gunadasa Madurasinghe as Con Priest
Soundtrack
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Heenen Awidinna[5]" | Nilar N. Kasim | Surendra Perera, Hirushi Jayasena | 2:49 |
| 2. | "Maya Enawa[6]" | Vimalajith Dombagahawatta | Uditha Sanjaya | 2:54 |
References
- ↑ "Maya". National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
- ↑ "Sri Lankan Screened Films". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ↑ "Maya 3D (2016)". IMDB. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
- ↑ "Sri Lanka Cinema History". National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- ↑ "Heenen Awidinna (Maya)". Top Sinhala mp3. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ↑ "Maya Enawa Maya Movie Official Song mp3 Download". Live mp3 Music. Retrieved 11 March 2017.