Sudath Devapriya

Set in the rural Sri Lanka of 1989, civil war is raging but hasn't yet touched the life of nine-year-old Sirimal. One day his boatman father is asked to ferry a group of armed strangers over to their island, and they are shortly followed by the army. Gun battles and arrests soon follow and Sirimal's world is turned upside down when his father disappears. (Cary Rajinder Sawhney - London Film Festival 2004)

This psychological drama attempts to dwell into the mind of Aravinda, whose Buddhist empathy and detachment are contrasted with his worldly friends and relatives. The English translation of the title, "The Way of the Lotus" implies Aravinda as Lotus-rising above dirt and mud to blossom.

Out of numberless stories we come across in Buddhist Literature, the life story of patachara is so grief stricken and pitible that it could be classified as a beat one's breast type of sagas. The story of Misinona also could be classed as that of a modern Patachara, who has undergone all possible lamentations torments malevolence and mournful miseries in life.