![]() ![]() They both become close friends and the interaction between them is absolutely touching and endearing. When she is searching for food, she meets Varuni (Pramudi Karunarathne), a Sinhalese girl. Saroja (Nithyavani Kandasami) is a little Tamil girl who hides in the jungle with him after her father is wounded during the war and their house is burned down. It’s always the grown ups that cause the problems, huh?īack to the film. My school included Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims and Burghers and we all got along. My school never allowed us to go on an excursion because of the risk and we were learning what to do in case a bomb hit the school – crawl under a desk with a pencil placed in your mouth – from the time we were nine years old. Note: This civil war started in the early 80s and only ended quite recently after countless broken cease fires and two president assassination attempts – one successful, one not. This created a lot of problems for the peaceful Tamil people not wanting to be involved in the situation but were sometimes forced into terrorism in order to survive. ![]() Saroja is a film about the conflict that existed between the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka and the terrorist group known as the LTTE ( Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam). So now we come to the end of the formalities and I’ve even included a review of a little known film from the country I was born in. So my book reviews will still remain even if my post count might drop and I’ll keep watching movies! Unlike me who reads at least one book per week, they read a book per month. Hooray for a non broken New Year resolution from last year! I’m not so sure if I’ll have time to read as much, watch movies as much or go take photos in 2012 as much given the new responsibilities I have but I’ll try. I kept my promise of delivering a blog post each week last year (sometimes there were even more than one in a week). It was a pretty eventful year with two part-time jobs gone and a full-time job gained. So with the arrival of 2012, I’ve got that job in publishing I wanted – it’s a paid one too this time. ( foreign films, Movies, Saroja, Sinhala Movies, Somaratne Dissanayake) ![]() At 11:59 AM ( Culture, Drama, Historical, Movies) ![]()
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