Ran Kevita

Ran Kevita 1 (The Golden Rod),^[1] (Sinhala: රන් කෙවිට) is a 2007 Sri Lankan Sinhala children's fantasy film directed by Udayakantha Warnasuriya and co-produced by Pravin Jayarathne, Dilman Jayaratne, Janitha Marasinghe and Udayakantha Warnasuriya for Millennium Entertainment.^[2] Its sequel film Ran Kevita 2 directed by the same director released in 2013. It stars Harith Beddewela and Hisham Samsudeen in lead role along with Vijaya Nandasiri and Srinath Maddumage. Music composed by Sangeeth Wickramasinghe.^[3][4][5][6] It is the 1084th Sri Lankan film in the Sinhala cinema.^[7]

Ran Kevita 1 රන් කෙවිට
Directed by	Udayakantha Warnasuriya
Written by	Udayakantha Warnasuriya
Produced by	Millennium Entertainment
Starring	Hisham Samsudeen Vijaya Nandasiri Srinath Maddumage
Cinematography	Pravin Jayarathne
Edited by	Pravin Jayarathne
Music by	Sangeeth Wickramasinghe
Distributed by	Millennium Entertainment
Release date	16 March 2007 (2007-03-16)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	Sri Lanka
Language	Sinhala

Plot

12-year-old Suran comes from a village. His pen friend Janith lives in town and he visits Suran's rural village during school vacations. Going around the beautiful village Suran and Janith one day visit a friend's home. There they find a loris. Seeing the animal Suran is reminded of a story he had read in a book and the two friends start to dig out the truth of what he had heard. Getting together with a young novice monk in the temple the two friends find books that mention about a supernatural power that can be obtained using the tears of loris. With the help of the monk they prepare the application which could be used to see the guardian devil of bulls. They further realise if they can have access to the golden rod belonging to the devil they would be able to do wonders. Suran and Janith prepare the application and apply it on their eyelids, see the devil and obtain the rod.

Cast

• Harith Baddewela as Suran
• Hisham Samsudeen as Janith
• Srinath Maddumage as Vilba ^[8]
• Vijaya Nandasiri as Suran's father
• Semini Iddamalgoda as Janith's mother
• Bennett Rathnayake as Janith's father
• Sarath Chandrasiri as Devil
• Ariyasena Gamage as Card player
• Saman Hemaratne as Dingiya
• Gunawardena Hettiarachchi
• Susantha Chandramali as Suran's mother

Songs

පැන්සල් පොත් නෑලු - Raminda Dixy

Soundtrack

No.	Title	Lyrics	Length
1.	"පැන්සල් පොත් නෑලු - Pansal Poth Nalu"	පැන්සල් පොත් නෑලු පාසැල් නෑ යාලු රෑ දාවල් උදේ හාවා දැල්වුනු ගම අපේ තමා පෙන්නා අපේ හපන් කම් ඒ දණ්ඩෙන් එහාට යන් මාලු පැටව් උඩ කරනම් ගහන ඇලේ නාමු පීන පීනා අපි දාංගලේ ඉද්ච්ච අඹ නම් අර උඩ අත්තේ ගහට නගිමු දැන් කමු ඇති වෙනකන් වසු පැටියෝ අනේ ඉදින් අපි යමු අස්ස ගුඩුං ගුඩුං

References

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2. "'Rankevita' tells a tale of a golden rod". Sunday Times. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
3. "Ran Kevita 2". National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
4. "A treat for children of all ages". Daily News. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
5. "Ran Kevita 2 – රන් කෙවිට 2". cinema.lk. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
6. "Sri Lankan Screened Films". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
7. "Sri Lanka Cinema History". National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
8. "Srinath returns to play a villain". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 30 November 2019.