Walampoori: Seven and a Half Dreams

Walampoori: Seven and a Half Dreams (2025)

වාලම්පුරි හෙවත් හීන හතහමාරක්

අපි බල්ලෝ වගේ කාගන්නවා සර් පොඩි මස්කට්ටකට

In this tale of deception and misadventure, a group of five village con men, each with unique skills, form a traveling performance troupe to camouflage their illicit actives. When approached by Swami, a con artist posing as a Hindu priest, they agree to pose as fake businessmen in a scheme to buy two Walampooris.

Date of release
2025-04-25
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
2h 30m
Genres
Crime, Thriller
Director
Lakmal Darmarathna

Casting

Interesting facts

Walampoori: Seven and Half Dreams , is a 2025 Sri Lankan Sinhalese thriller film directed by Lakmal Darmarathna and produced by Asanka Dodantenna and Pradeep Perera. It stars Priyantha Sirikumara, Thumindu Dodantenna and Sarath Kothalawala in lead roles where Anjana Premaratne, Dilhani Ekanayake, Ashan Dias, Niroshan Wijesinghe, Wasantha Moragoda and late Darshan Dharmaraj made supportive roles. In the film, revolves around the efforts of a theatre artist named Sidney and his theatre group to sell a Walampoori and the problems they face while trying to sell it. It is debut film of koombiyo TV series creators.

Production and release

This is the maiden cinema direction by award-winning teledrama director Lakmal Darmarathna, who directed the critically acclaimed popular teledrama Koombiyo as well as an assistant director for numerous teledramas since 2005. He also made the script and story of the film along with Damitha Chandrasiri, where script supervision done by Shashika Fonseka. The film is produced by Shri Light Films.

Executive producers are Asanka Dodantenna, Pradeep Perera, where linear producers are Primal Ranasinghe and Udara Abeysundara. Kalinga Deshapriya is the cinematographer with the assistance of Dimuthu Kalinga and Majith Uyangoda. Co-editors are Sankha Malwatte and Tharindu Kariyawasam. Sound mixing done by Athula Jayasinghe, color mixing by Dinindu Jagoda and art direction by Nuwan Sanurankha de Silva.

Composition and hairstyling handled by Priyantha Dissanayake, costume design by Lasantha Udukumbura and visual effects by Nasafi Mohamed. Chamara Selara is the first assistant Director, and second assistant directors are Richie Fank, Nuwan Srinath, Sankha Weerasinghe, Pradeep Rajapaksa ad Devika Kumari.

Anjana Ashubodha handled production management with the assistance of Chathura Deshan. Production coordination co-handled by Hashan Nisitha and Risha Akram. Music director is Chinthaka Jayakody and lyricist is Dinendra Jayaweera Bandara.

The film was released throughout the country on 25 April 2025. Apart from that, it is scheduled to screen in more than 15 countries around the world including Australia, Canada, Italy, New Zealand, America, Japan and Finland.

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