Frangipani
(Before-post notes #1: There are spoilers here and there. Marked by SPOILER ALERT! and SPOILER ALERT!- OVER #2: I’m really, really bad at names. So if I’ve got any of the character names wrong, please forgive and correct me. #3: These are my personal opinions. Maybe the director didn’t intend any of this. But I feel art is open to interpretation.) Sometime back a friend told me about Frangipani, I watched the trailer and had a feeling it was a must-watch film. It tackled issues that Sri Lankan cinema is hesitant or afraid of even acknowledging and more than that, it seemed like a nice film. But of course, back then there seemed to be no way I could watch the film unless I found it online, which I couldn’t, so imagine my happiness when I heard it was coming to local cinemas. Then came the next problem. A friend and I wanted to watch it but where could we watch it? Very few cinemas were showing the film, which really is a bummer because people need t