Bulletproof Children

Bulletproof Children (2020)

වෙඩි නොවදින ළමයි

How many bullets will you take to protect your dead brother?

It's the 17th of March 1996. Wills Cricket World Cup Final between Australia and Sri Lanka is about to commence at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. Meanwhile, in Colombo, a man and his wife board a bus carrying a strange cardboard box. Joined by an eloping young couple, several other interesting passengers aboard, they take off on a long night's journey. The seemingly peaceful bus ride shifts its pace when it enters a chase with a Defender jeep. An accident unexpectedly reveals the contents of the cardboard box promising the passengers a journey unlike any they have taken before.

Date of release
2020-11-21
Runtime
2h 0m
Genres
Thriller, Comedy
Director
Indika Ferdinando

Casting

Interesting facts

Vedi Nowadina Lamai is a 2023 Sri Lankan Sinhala black comedy, musical thriller film directed by Indika Ferdinando and produced by Deepa Edirisinghe for Deep Motion Pictures as an EAP Film. It has ensemble cast of Kalana Gunasekara, Anasuya Subasinghe, Jayalath Manoratne, Hemasiri Liyanage, Dayadewa Edirisinghe, Mahendra Perera, Anula Bulathsinhala and Ashan Dias. It is the last film acted by late dramatist Jayalath Manoratne.

Production

The film "Bulletproof Children" made the second cinema direction of Indika Ferdinando after award-winning blockbuster Ho Gaana Pokuna. However, according to director, the screenplay of Wedi Nowadina Lamayi was written even before Ho Gana Pokuna. Ferdinando also made the screenplay along with Piyal Kariyawasam. The film is produced by Deepa Edirisinghe as her maiden cinema production with line producing by Malith Hegoda.

Cinematography of the film done by Dimuthu Kalinga, editing by Tissa Surendra and art direction by

Kasun Mahawaduge. Costumes designed by Wasanthi Alwis, and makeup by Buwaneka Ranawaka. Anjana Ashubodha is the assistant production manager, and Maduranga Jagoda is the production manager. Tharindu Ranepura is the assistant director whereas sound department handled by Sasika Ruwan Marasinghe. Christopher Fernando did visual effects of the film and Dinindu Jagoda is the colorist. Music was co-composed by Thilanka Gamage and Nadika Weligodapola.

The filming took place for about 60 days in 2018. Most of the scenes have been shot during night time with 80% of them within a bus.

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