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Film review: Love story with a happy endingCINEMA: Each new work of art carries within it the art of its predecessors, and the artist may sometimes choose to make his to the past more than usually plain. Looking at the area of intertextuality, the new film Angelika has the essential ingredients of a film. It is a presentation for an audience using actors, technical devices, and collaborative work of producers, directors, script writers, cinematographers, actors, film editors, and musicians etc. Angelika is essentially an expensive production aimed at attracting a young audience interested in the romance of sensational love.
Channa Perea has to be welcomed and wholeheartedly accepted as a talented youth for his performances and for introducing a promising actress Puja Umashanker into the Sinhala cinema. The film is created in the usual three part plan-situation, action and resolution. However, artistic techniques such as telescoping, flashback, retrospection and over briefing have been used to save time and production costs. The plot begins in the liens of a comedy. As it proceeds, it acquires qualities of a tragedy mixed with suspense and suspicion. A crime appears to have been committed by Kaya’s father. The ugly lifestyle of those in power, riches and sexual impudence emerge towards the latter part of the film. Then the film becomes a mix of a tragedy and a comedy. Finally everything ends in a happy tone with true love winning the race and all doubts being cleared. Channa has attempted to infuse class consciousness into the film. But the focus is not so deep and obvious as in Dharmasena Pathriaja’s Ahas Gawwa or Eya Den Loku Lamayek. Channa disregards the social and economic differentials when the issue is pertaining to emotional love. Youthful love is above all social and economic limitations. Human relationships should be aimed at establishing a happy life. Despite the absence of symbolism and allegory, Angelika is interspersed with beautifying scenes of natural splendour which please the visual appeal of the audience. The film can be classified as a wish-fulfilment one or a love story with a happy ending. |
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