The story revolves around a group of young musicians, rock’n rollers who venerate Bob Marley and wish to become a famous band. But their lives on the lowest rungs of Sri Lanka society, with its poverty and violence, offer them little if no oppotunities. Friends returning from Italy talk about the money to be made. But the journey there is not straightforward because it’s not legal. The film follows them on their dangerous journey with all its hazards, its comradeship, its tears and laughters. And also death. On returning to Sri Lanka, somehow they seem to be better equipped to survive either in Sri Lanka, or to return to Italy, this time as legal immigrants.

 

sri lanka

MILLE SOYA (BUONGIORNO ITALIA)
Boodee Keerthisena

Screenplay Boodee Keerthisena
Photography (colour) Moshe Ben Yaish, K.A. Dharmasena
Producer Buddhi Keerthisena
Production Cinema Buddhi
Year of Production 2000
Running Time 140’

 

 

 

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