Machan

2008 ""

Machan

7.7 | 1h49m | en | Drama

Two friends, Manoj (Gihan De Chickera), a bartender, and Stanley (Dharmapriya Dias), a fruit vendor, wish to immigrate to the West to seek their fortune, but have difficulties getting their visa applications approved. They come across an application to a handball tournament in Bavaria, and not even knowing what the game is, they submit themselves and a group of friends as the "Sri Lanka National Handball Team". For appearance's sake, they begin minimal training and then seek travel visas from the German Embassy. Their plans to simply escape into the West upon arrival in Germany are thwarted by the quick appearance of the tournament organizers and an arena of fans eager to see the prowess of the Sri Lanka National Handball Team.

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7.7 | 1h49m | en | Drama , Comedy | More Info

Released: September. 09,2008 | Released Producted By: Babelsberg Film , RAI Country: Sri Lanka Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Dharmapriya Dias , Kumara Thirimadura , Pubudu Chathuranga

Director

Uberto Pasolini

Producted By

Babelsberg Film , RAI

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Cast

Dharmapriya Dias

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Kumara Thirimadura

as Oaf

Pubudu Chathuranga

as Spoilt Son

Reviews

FilmCriticLalitRao The trade of cinema revolves around its commercial as well as artistic aspects.This is the reason why most of the filmmakers try to achieve both artistic as well as commercial success.Machan is a film which has managed to taste both kinds of joys as it is a true entertaining film directed by Uberto Pasolini who produced "The Full Monty" which revived the fortunes of the almost dead British film industry in 1997. Humanity is evident in full force in Machan as it is one of those rare films in which tears of happiness and laughter of wisdom will flow at the same time.In Machan,Uberto Pasolini depicts a serious subject in a light manner to provide an answer to the often repeated question :why do poor people become desperate to go abroad to make money ? This is shown through a very tragic depiction of despicable poverty.Sri Lankan crew's participation makes the whole film appear a genuine exercise in realist cinema as it is based on a true story which happened in 2004.Film critic Lalit Rao saw this film at 13th IFFK 2008 in Kerala and spoke to Italian producer director Uberto Pasolini about his kind of cinema.This interview can be found on cinema-poet website.

Rajiev Ranasinghe I just watched this Movie. And thought of it deserved a review.Although the quality of the Theater sucks and my film buddy is nagging about something else, The one thing Got me in the seat was the story the movie.Although it categorized as a Comedy, It shows the bitter truth of the Sri Lankan (and perhaps all third world countries) youth's tragedy. If they wanna go abroad, they should go as refugees (and another way, say their homeland is not good for living). But if they wanna stand on their own feet and help themselves and the country, they got no chance.The Film is a definite must watch. The story, laughter and the way the tiny things captured by the director is awesome.I think This film needed to be treated more seriously and advertised more in Sri Lanka. It deserves more crowd.

Yasas Deemantha This is a truly excellent Sri Lankan movie which we have not seen for ages in this Island. The subtle way the director has used the humor superbly depicts poverty and people's continuous struggle for living in the capital city.The dialogs are excellent with superb directing and full credit should go to the Italian director, Uberto Pasolini for his wonderful effort to make a world class Sri Lankan movie. He has been able to grasp the authenticity of Colombo life through the camera with wonderful script writing of Ruwanthi De Chikera.The selection of the cast and their performance is also superb with not so popular names in cinema like Dharmapriya Dias, Gihan De Chikera and can go on with many other names. Everything else in this movie is excellent including music, art direction, camera etc.It is rather unfortunate that this film did not get more attention among the viewers in this country perhaps because of the less media publicity given to this compared to some other contemporary movies.Anyway, this movie stands at the top among all other contemporary local movies & once again well done everyone who contributed to this superb effort.My vote is 10 out of 10, since we have not seen such high quality Sri Lankan movies before.

Ishara Jayakody This is one of the greatest movies I have ever watched. It is real and it is brave. I really liked the way it pictured the sorrowful helpless lives of Sri Lankan poverty and how they struggle to stand up on their own. No exaggeration at all and amazingly realistic. I think Sri Lankan film industry needs some movies like this, which are closer to the reality. Even though the director is Italian (and I honor him for making such a good movie out of our talented artists), our Sri Lankan artists have done a great justice to the movie. First of all I must say that the cast is saturated. You can expect more for a real wholesome cast for a picture. Even Irangani Serasinghe does a few seconds role; she creates a wonderful image of an Aunt Maggie (Iim not going to spoil it for you here) Everyone is contributing with a great performance, so the cast can be easily given a 10/10. Especially Darmapriya Dias has done an outstanding job. He has really proved that he is a very talented young artist, emerged through the stage plays.I will rate this movie as 9/10(that's to be fair I guess) Really hope to see more movies like this in the future.

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