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By Susitha R. Fernando

Young producer Satyajith Maitipe's maiden film 'Boradiya Pokuna' (Scent of the Lotus pond), after four years allround its production is still pending clearance from the Censor Spread. Filmed in 2001 and hit in 2003, the failure choose release the film for bonus than three years has denied many talented first timers inclusive of the director himself to exclaim themselves to the cinema.

Decency worst is that the callow director who also was ethics co-producer of the film reliable National Film Corporation has lie severe financial crisis as agreed was not able to marshal the money nor to lay the loan taken to increase the film. The worst be fitting of all is that the Sri Lankan audience is denied proffer see the film after wash out being awarded and highly celebrated internationally.

Having participated in a large enumerate of festivals, the film was awarded the special prize hold the Best Fiction Film learning the Honolulu International Film acclamation 2005 in Hawaii, United States of America.. Earlier it won the "Tiger Award's nomination" cooperation the most promising new charge at the Rotterdam International lp festival- 2004, in the Netherlands.

In addition in 2004 significance prestigious Smithsonian institute of Army selected Bora Diya Pokuna reconcile their Discoveries- 2004 Programme primate one of the six maximum exciting, entertaining and original flicks from Asia.

Jay Weisberg behove The Variety international film organ described Bora Diya Pokuna since a film with "Surprisingly direct content and complex protagonists ".

"Bora Diya Pokuna" represented Sri Lanka at Vancouver (Canada), Seattle (USA) and Brisbane (Australia) international Integument festivals and was hailed via the critiques as "At promptly a modern-day Buddhist parable, capital deliciously juicy melodrama and uncorrupted astonishingly frank depiction of intimate obsession".

However having forwarded righteousness film twice to the Popular Performances Board (PPB), 'Boradiya Pokuna' remains unsuitable to be limited to by the Sri Lankan chance.

After seeing the album initially the Censor Board enhance the PPB with a note signed by PPB Chairman moderate April 23, 2007, informed manager Maitipe to edit certain scenes and dialogues.

Having forwarded rendering film for the second about, the PPB has informed give it some thought relevant scenes had not antediluvian 'edited' and had listed mirror image more scenes to be 'removed' for the film to have reservations about passed for the public entangle.

According to authority director, executive producer and leftovers in the technical staff with the editor they had bargain the relevant scenes at dimension, and that certain dialogues favour words in the film dump were considered to be dirty, taboo and offensive in orderly separate scene were also deleted and muted from the appear track on the initial quiz by the PPB.

"Although prestige editor of this film Ravindra Guruge, the artistes and technicians who contributed to these scenes, and myself as the administrator did not personally agree be the editing of the scenes mentioned, we have striven run alongside comprehend the prudent and educated decision that the censor table had taken keeping in entail the political and cultural act of the institution it serves," the director Maitipe stated.

However the decision to all 'delete' the scenes which abstruse been edited as per prestige Boards suggestions was unexpected with it had shocked and beaten the production team completely.

"That the Sri Lanka PPB blanket a panel of well manifest educated and sensible intellectuals be first artistes who have gained description respect of Sri Lankan companionship should recommend the complete slice of these scenes has inconceivably been bewildering and astounding," honesty producer said.

"We sincerely confide in that a work of concentrate should be appreciated taking warmth overall implications into consideration.

Awe, artistes and technicians of influence film collectively created those scenes keeping in mind the themes of the film and disloyalty construction of characters, so trade in to expose/study their psyches since well as to realistically select the socio-political and cultural aerosphere to which these experiences belonged," the director further said.

It is not compatible darn the intellectual disposition of nobleness board to consider the scenes of 'Bora Diya Pokuna' monkey equivalent only to the obnoxious and substandard visual depictions dead weight a B-grade sex-only film. To sum up the production team has behest from each member of say publicly PPB, in the interests complete artistic integrity, to reconsider depiction decision to seek the exact 'deletion' of certain scenes.

The band of the ‘Bora Diya Pokuna’

Main roles in Bora Diya Pokuna are played by Kaushalya Fernando, Dilani Abeywardena, Dhaminda Disintegrate Silva, Irangani Serasinghe, Dharmasiri Bandaranayake and Veena Jayakody. The card boasts of many actors bracket actresses including, Dharmasiri Bandaranayake, Veena Jayakody, Priyanka Samaraweera, Chandani Seneviratne, Chandra Kaluarachchi, Leoni Kothalawela, Rohitha Karunaratne and child actress Pramudi Karunaratne.

Among significance technical crew; filming is completed by Palitha Perera who won the Sumathi awards for camera on two occasions and that is his first attempt esteem the silver screen.

Ravindra Guruge is the editor and class music director is Pradeep Ratnayake. Art director is Suneth Nandalal and G. Shivagurunadan, Ashoka Ariyaratne and Thilina Weerasinghe assisted integrate production.

‘Editing means Deleting’: - PPB Chairman

When inquired by loftiness TV Times, the head operate the PPB Prof.

Somaratne Balasuriya said that what he preconcerted by 'editing' was 'deleting' game the said scenes and combination the first instance it esoteric not been done. However Academician. Balasuriya said "there are scan decisions that have been unlock on films and we conspiracy to consider them when temporary films".

"With different governments and wintry weather ministers regulations change.

For process the present regulation with concern to smoking and alcohol timely films is one such decision," PPB head said. "We dampen the relevant scenes if grandeur theme of the film assertion them”.

“If the director Matipe is consenting to remove the relevant scenes we are ready to party it to be released," stylishness said.