SOORYA

 

Soorya (Sinhala: සූර්යා) is a 2025 Sri Lankan Sinhalese action thriller film directed by Mahesh Munasinghe and produced by Dinesh Muthugala.^[1] The film stars Janith Wickramage and Nihari Perera in lead roles, while Dilhani Ekanayake, Mike Fernando and Isuru Lokuhettiarachchi made supportive roles.^[2]

The film was released on 12 July 2025 and has received positive reviews from audience and critics.^[3][4]

Cast

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• Janith Wickramage as Soorya Swarnajeeva^[5][6][7]
• Nihari Perera as Neha Ranthilake^[8][9]
• Dilhani Ekanayake as Nirupa Swarnajeewa, Soorya's mother
• Mike Fernando as Daya Swarnajeewa, Soorya's Father, the divisional secretary
• Sanath Gunathilake as Minister Wanshanatha
• Ajith Weerasinghe as Willie Mahagama, Media head
• Isuru Lokuhettiarachchi as Inspector Kamal
• Kamal Deshapriya as Ranthilake, Neha's father
• Sangeetha Basnayake as Malika Ranthilake, Neha's mother
• Dinesh Muthugala as Inspector Rohan Rathnayake, Police OIC^[10]
• Sachin Chathuranga as Rockey, Soorya's friend
• Sangeeth Prabhu as Sammy, Soorya's friend
• Lasantha Udukumbura as Anwer, the juice maker
• Sudheeksha Samadhi as Vonisha^[11]
• Harshika Ratnayake as Governor
• Asanka Neelawattura as Lawyer Galkanda
• Rukman Thilakarathne as Bandara, Swarnajeewa's secretary
• Dasunika Wickramasinghe as Minister secretary

Production

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This is the second cinema direction by Mahesh Munasinghe after his 2019 blockbuster Rush.^[12] The film is produced by popular biology tutor Dinesh Muthugala, where he also made a supportive role.^[10][4] The script is written by Ronald Dasanayaka where Niroshan Edirimanna and Indunil Daraniyagala are the assistant directors. Eranda Dewanarayana is the production manager and Sanka Bandara is the line producer.^[2]

Cinematographer is Rangana Bandara and editor, colour mixer is Roshan Edward. Art Direction handled by Nuwan Sanurankha and choreography by Sara Abeywardhana. Priyantha Dissanayake is the make-up artist, Saman Bandara Ihalagama is the stunt director and Janaka Ullandupitiya with costume designing. Sound designed by Sasika Ruwan Marasinghe and VFX by Mahesh Buddhika.^[2][13]

References

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1. ^ "සූර්‍යා විශේෂ දර්ශනය දා". sarasaviya.lk. 19 July 2025. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
2. ^ Jump up to:^a b c "Soorya / සූර්යා". films.lk. 19 July 2025. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
3. ^ ""පෙනෙන්නට ජීවත් වනවාට වඩා දැනෙන්නට ජීවත් වෙන්න" යි කියන "සූර්යා"". mirrorarts.lk. 19 July 2025. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
4. ^ Jump up to:^a b "යෞවනයේ හදගැස්ම සූර්යා ට ඉහළ ප්‍රතිචාර". mawbima.lk. 19 July 2025. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
5. ^ "මම ෆැන්ටසියක ජීවත් වෙන්නෙ නැහැ – ජනිත් වික්‍රමගේ". divaina.lk. 19 July 2025. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
6. ^ ""චරිතයට කැපවෙනවා කියන්නෙ වෙනමම වැඩක්" – ජනිත් වික්‍රමගේ". radiowesl.com. 19 July 2025. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
7. ^ "The Game වෙනුවෙන් එකපාරක් නම් සූර්යා වෙනුවෙන් දහපාරක් මහන්සි වුණා". mawbima.lk. 19 July 2025. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
8. ^ ""මාර ආසාවෙන් හිටියේ රිදී තිරයට එන්න" – නිහාරි පෙරේරා". radiowesl.com. 19 July 2025. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
9. ^ "මේ වගේලස්සන කමෙන්ට්ස් ලැබෙයි කියලා හිතුවෙ නෑ". mawbima.lk. 19 July 2025. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
10. ^ Jump up to:^a b ""තාක්ෂණයයි ළමයිනුයි විනය කියන එක ඉස්සරහින් තියලා පැත්තකට කරන එක බරපතළ අර්බුධයක්" - දිනේෂ් මුතුගල". mirrorarts.lk. 19 July 2025. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
11. ^ "හිමි නොවුණත් ආදරේ කරපු ආදරණීය හිත් තිබුණා... සූර්යා සමගින් රිදි තිරයට එන ජනිත් සහ සුදීක්ෂා". lankadeepa.lk. 19 July 2025. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
12. ^ "අපි විකල්පයක් හදන්න ඕනෑ – මහේෂ් මුණසිංහ". divaina.lk. 19 July 2025. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
13. ^ "දිනන්න නම් බලන්නම ඕන චිත්‍රපටයක් 'සූර්යා' ජූලි 12 දා සිට දිවයින පුරා!". mirrorarts.lk. 19 July 2025. Retrieved 19 July 2025.

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U TURN

U Turn (Sinhala: යූ-ටර්න්) is a 2019 Sri Lankan Sinhala mystery thriller film directed by acclaimed cinematographer Channa Deshapriya in his directorial debut.^[1][2] The movie is produced by Maharaja Entertainments as a Sirasa Movie.^[3] The movie features the stars Hemal Ranasinghe Thumindu Dodantenna, Bimal Jayakody, Gamya Wijayadasa with the debut actress Chanu Dissanayake in the lead roles.^[4] The music of the film is composed by Chinthaka Jayakody with Bharadwaj composing music for the song.

The movie is a remake of the 2016 Indian Kannada language film U Turn – thereby becoming the first Sinhala remake of a Kannada movie.^[5] The film mostly received positive reviews from critics.^[6] The film ran for 50 days in theaters when it was released.^[7]

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Raveena (Chanu Dissanayake), a news reporter working on an article on the incidents at a flyover. She also has a crush on the crime reporter Adithya (Thumindu Dodantenna), whose help she seeks for research material on accidents on the flyover. She finds that each day some motorists move the concrete blocks that partition the road just to take a quick U-turn and avoid the traffic. They don't move them back and the blocks are left to lie randomly on the road leading to many accidents. A beggar sitting on the flyover notes down the vehicle numbers of bikers who violate the rule to take the U-turn. Then he gives the list to Raveena. She obtains the details of the culprits using her contact in the traffic department, with the intention of confronting them for their "short-cut" and writing an article for the paper. Her attempt to meet the first person on the list goes in vain. Later the same day, the police take her into custody and accuse her of killing the same person she wanted to meet. She is shocked and tells her side of the story. Though the senior police officer rejects it, sub-inspector Ranga (Hemal Ranasinghe), finds it believable and does some investigation. It is revealed that all the persons Raveena has on her list have committed suicide. They also noticed that they have committed suicide the same day they took the wrong "u-turn". Raveena and Ranga find another number has been noted by the beggar which is to be delivered to Raveena the next day. The duo trace the address and try to rescue the man, a lawyer (Rana Madhav), who has taken the u-turn on the same day. As nothing seems suspicious, both leave only to encounter the very death of the lawyer whom they came to rescue.

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