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 Poster of Sri Lankan movie U Turn (2019) | |
| Directed by | Channa Deshapriya |
| Written by | Pawan Kumar |
| Based on | U Turn(Kannada) |
| Produced by | Maharaja Entertainments |
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| Cinematography | Striner Adams |
| Edited by | Tissa Surendra |
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| Distributed by | M Entertainments |
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| Running time | 146 minutes |
| Country | Sri Lanka |
| Language | Sinhala |
U Turn (Sinhala: යූ-ටර්න්) is a 2019 Sri Lankan Sinhala mystery thriller film directed by acclaimed cinematographer Channa Deshapriya in his directorial debut. The movie is produced by Maharaja Entertainments as a Sirasa Movie. The movie features the stars Hemal Ranasinghe Thumindu Dodantenna, Bimal Jayakody, Gamya Wijayadasa with the debut actress Chanu Dissanayake in the lead roles. 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. The film mostly received positive reviews from critics. The film has successfully passed 50 days in theaters.
Plot
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.
Cast
- Chanu Dissanayake as Raveena
- Hemal Ranasinghe as Police Inspector Ranga
- Thumindu Dodantenna as Adithya
- Bimal Jayakody as Prasad
- Gamya Wijayadasa as Maya
- Veena Jayakody as Raveena's mother
- Sanyumi Nimnadi as Anuki, Maya's daughter
- Dayadeva Edirisinghe as OIC
- Priyantha Wijesinghe as Traffic police officer Jagath
- Nalin Lusena as Police Inspector Sagara
- Athula Jayasinghe as Kapila Sirimanne
- Rana Madhava as Nalaka Kalupahana
- Suranga Ranawaka as Sandamini
- Madushan Nanayakkara as Security officer
- Nishantha Priyadarshana as Raja
- Sunil Premaratne
- Prasanna Dekumpitiya as Prasa
- Randika Gunathilake as Ravi
- Pradeep Ramawickrama as Three-wheel driver
Songs
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Ira Handatath Rahase" | Sunil Ariyaratne | Umara Sinhawansa |
References
- "U-Turn – යු-ටර්න්". Sinhala Cinema Database. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
- "Let's see when the U-turn turns!". Silumina. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- "'U TURN' is about to arrive". Silumina. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- "The killer of converters U TURN". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- "The Sinhalese audience has no film culture – Channa Deshapriya". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
- ಅತೀ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಭಾಷೆಗೆ 'ರಿಮೇಕ್' ಆದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಿನಿಮಾಗಳ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಇಲ್ಲಿದೆ! [Here is a list of Kannada films that have been remade in most languages! (machine translation)]. Vijaya Karnataka (in Kannada). Archived from the original on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- "The triumph of entertainment cinema". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
- "50 days of U-turn". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
- "Unsurprisingly, U Torn, who grew up in Kollywood". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
External links
| U Turn and its remakes | |
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