![]() ![]() When asked by the newspaper Rawaya about his legal power, Abeywardana simply declared: “I am not concerned about those laws. Secondly, Abeywardana’s ban challenges the independence of the PPB, the sole arbiter of public performances of film and other artistic work in Sri Lanka. Firstly, he directed the PPB to give him a video copy of the film, without Handagama’s approval, and thus violating the director’s intellectual property rights. Soon after, however, the minister for culture Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana suddenly claimed the film production involved child abuse and ordered the PBB to reverse its approval.Ībeywardana’s intervention contravenes existing Sri Lankan law on two counts. ![]() During the film the mother also learns that her elderly husband is in fact her own father.Īksharaya, which was partially funded by Fonds Sud Cinema of France and shown at festivals in Spain and Japan last year, was initially given an “adults only” rating by Sri Lanka’s censorship body, the Public Performance Board (PPB), and cleared for local screenings in early April. When the boy later accidentally murders a prostitute, his mother attempts to cover-up the crime with tragic consequences. Without revealing the film’s complex plot, it includes a scene where the magistrate mother bathes naked with her son. ![]() It explores the questions of incest, rape, murder and other dark secrets within the family and their impact on the young boy. ![]() Written and directed by Asoka Handagama, the movie depicts a series of psychosexual traumas within an upper middle class Sri Lankan family-a female magistrate (Piyumi Samaraweera), her elderly husband, who is a former High Court judge (Ravindra Randeniya), and their 12-year-old son (Isham Samzudeen). In a serious attack on freedom of speech, Sri Lanka’s United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) government has banned screenings of Aksharaya (Letter of Fire) and threatened legal action against the film’s producers. ![]()
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