The movie Flying Fish by Sanjeewa Pushpakumara is censored by the Sri Lankan government. We reproduce below the English subtitled movie in full;
Full Movie: Censored Flying Fish – Igillena Maluwo
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pataginia / October 16, 2013
The fish will fly [Edited out]; mouth,, the .rasict snhala chavonist.,
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loku baba / October 17, 2013
how ethical is it for a news website to post a R18 video without even a warning ?
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sujeeva / October 20, 2013
THE BAN HAS GIVEN THIS PIECE OF CRAP PUBLICITY
IT’S BOARING AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN CALLED ‘WALKING SOUNDS’, AS THATS WHAT YOU HEAR THROUGHOUT.
LOVERS OF SEAFOOD & TEA MAY GET PUT-OFF, MEAT & VEG LOVERS REMAIN UNAFFECTED.
THE 4-5 SEX SCENES ARE THE ONLY PLUSSES; ALL ON DERALICT BUILDINGS AGAINST THE WALL, ‘BANGING BY THE WALL’ OR ‘DERALICT SEX’.
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Arsath / October 21, 2013
Something that you think is not suitable for you may not be the case for others, as long as the guy didn’t force you to watch it. Youtube has a slider to pull the movie forward for those scenes you deemed not suitable.
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nimal p.dunuhinga / October 16, 2013
where’s the freedom of choice in this boastful Democratic country?
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Peacelover / October 16, 2013
Good job CT and let the viewers themselves see and judge but of course jokers in the form of Fathima Fukushima alias Lorenso’ of Lankaweb will talk sick while K A Sumansekera alias ‘Leela’ will divert issues and bring his lover boy Sambandan into the picture while Jim Softly will talk of the earth being square ;-)
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ela kolla / October 16, 2013
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JULAMPITIYE AMARAYA / October 16, 2013
Kola Ellan;
You can fly a kite??.
Fantastic comments???.
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Ela kolla / October 17, 2013
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Probono Publico / October 17, 2013
Ella kolla = moda kolla
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Ela kolla / October 17, 2013
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mike / October 17, 2013
Moda Kolla, I have said it repeatedly, you are an IDIOT. Time for you to R.I.P
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Ela kolla / October 17, 2013
I’m telling you that you are a donkey
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Ela kollage thaththa / October 18, 2013
Lol ela kolla you faggot. Haha you getting bullied here my son. And thank CT for a free movie.
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Marwan / October 17, 2013
Seriously ela kolla has a problem. He seems to be tripping on the censorship line all the time. He cannot express himself without breaking the code due to his lack of imagination and language disability. More suited for him would kalley kolla,
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Peacelover / October 17, 2013
Ella Kolla seems to be having an undeveloped brain and is more suitable to play computer games and write on elakiri website ;-)
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ela kolla / October 18, 2013
get lost you uneducated fool
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Peacelover / October 18, 2013
go back to school Ella Kolla your better off playing video games putha and not try to act like a grown up in a place like CT where intellectuals gather your place is in the classroom putha -;)
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sanath / October 16, 2013
quite a bleak picture of humanity even though in the midst of war.
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nimal / October 16, 2013
I am happy war is over. how many of viticms id differet level. but this nice these guess true storey now artist has to help for social change
Nimal
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weera / October 17, 2013
Is this a movie?? What a waste of time.
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Probono Publico / October 17, 2013
why do you say so? can you let us know your critical comments on it
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weera / October 17, 2013
Just imagine watching this film with your sons and daughters. I wonder whether the producers of this film watched this with their children, parents and their grand parents. SLG should be commended for censoring this low class, disgusting film in SL.
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Marwan / October 17, 2013
I agree. This same story could have enacted better without the porn fiction, since it involves some serious issues of ethnicity mix. It is slow moving, lacks imagination extremely unrealistic in acting. A waste of time. By banning the film, people will want to see it for sake of curiosity.
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Saradiyel / October 17, 2013
I agree the film is utter crap (to put it mildly) but that is just your opinion and mine. People should be allowed to see it and decide for themselves.
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Peacelover / October 17, 2013
I didnt have time to see the whole movie but skimmed through it,cinematagraphic ( I hope is the correct word ) is not that good,its slow moving and the camera seems to far away too in case you didnt notice it
But on the other hand it potrays human emotions and relationships very realistically and your comment about watching it with your sons and daughters is crap because if the film is certified as 18+ why will you take your sons and daughters who are underage?
But you cannot class it as Porn as we have seen so many cheap flick Sinhala movies featuring Sumana Gomez of Age Wairaya fame with terrible gender violence being shown in cinemas and where was the so moralistic Govt Censor board at that time?
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Marwan / October 17, 2013
Ideally, it can be expressed as ‘skimmed through it a few frames at a time’. The word Cinematographic as an adjective refers to the art of photography and camera work in film-making.
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David Blacker / October 17, 2013
Weera, if your sons and daughters are adults there shouldn’t be a problem. Were you under the impression that every movie must be family entertainment?
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weera / October 17, 2013
May be it’s not an issue for you. But as a parent I would be really be embarrassed watching the explicit sexual acts with my adult sons and daughters. I guess it depends on how you are brought up by your parents and your culture. Obviously this is not such a big issue these days when you hear fathers molesting their own daughters and children young as five years getting raped by sex maniacs. Don’t worry, time will come soon when parents will engage in sexual intercourse in front of their children and vice versa.
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Peacelover / October 18, 2013
weera its indeed strange that your keen of watching this movie with your adult sons and daughters normally parents read a review of the movies plot before watching it.
also where were you when Sumana Gomez was flahing it all in cheap pron flicks under the Age Wairaya name which had a lot of gender based violence?
You might not want to see a movie which has adult themes as in flying fish when children are around?
But how do you feel about the teledramas where wife beating and harrsaing housemaids is the norm? or when Rupavahini paraded dead bodies of those killed during war? didnt that contravene your ‘culture’?
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David Blacker / October 21, 2013
If something embarrasses you, Weera, don’t do it in public. If you feel compelled to watch movies with your sons and daughters, then yes, you should stick to mainstream fare. However, I don’t think movies should be critiqued with your family habits in mind. Not every movie must cater to families. Nor is anyone forcing you to watch this movie. That doesn’t mean others must be deprived of it because you and your family are joined at the hip.
As for child abuse in the home, perhaps there would be less of it if as a society we weren’t so sexually repressed and brought up to think that sex is some dirty deed that must not be discussed within the family.
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Probono Publico / October 18, 2013
hey david by any chance did you get lucky with chicks when in operational areas?
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hadagamba / October 19, 2013
Probona
You are a shame to this forum my friend.
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sanath / October 17, 2013
Sanjeewa has talent but unless he frees himself from submission to ideology that negatively affected the films of Handagama, Vimukthi and Satyajith his talent also will be wasted in the international award circuit still guided by orientalist liberal notions.
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justice / October 18, 2013
This movie is crap – not only because of the fornication scenes but because there is no story and it is disjointed.
Photography is terrible.
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weera / October 19, 2013
I couldn’t have said any better.
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Arakku Beepang / October 19, 2013
The movie is different however has very little artistic merit. Porno scenes to attract attention is silly innovation, for audiences in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lankan movie makers have a perennial weakness that this movie maker also has succumbed to. It is slow moving. Really slow, slow, moving.
The issue with movie making in Sri Lanka is that the man at top knows best. No input is allowed by the rest of the crew. Users are never consulted before or after making of the movie. The editor is hand, leg and mouth bound, during the editing. The catch cry is don’t waste valuable footage. The director decides all. Sometimes the producer decides all.
Sorry 2 out of ten is my score.
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Afzal / October 19, 2013
After 15 min of watching, my mind starts battle with me to stop watching, but I fought and gave it more time, then some more time and a bit more! but then finally. I had to give up.
The quality of the film also have effected the poor taste of the movie. It is extremely slow moving, camera is almost all the time is in a distance. Lacks dialog. When you have a less dialog and distance camera it’s hard to
understand the message (or at lest try to make up the message)
At the end it makes no sense at all. The director at least did not make an effort to build the main characters, their roles.In my opinion it’s a waste.
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JimSofty / October 20, 2013
During the first minutes, it became a head ache. They used subtitles what the director could not get the actors or actresses could not do.
It is simply a low budget fiction – movie, by a director who does not have any talent in movie making. He used just sex to attract viewers.
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micheal / October 20, 2013
Handagama,Vimukthi and now Sanjeewa. These guys directed films for international arena and not for SL viewers. They were fully or partially funded by INGO’s or NGO’s supportive to tarnish the image of SL soldiers and monks etc… In this film has a scene that a monk took a T 56 into his hand and aim it to check it. What’s the message Sanjeewa trying to give us or the world? Though SL monks encourage soldiers to protect their country by going even to the bunkers during war period, this is unbelievable and never happen in SL. I never heard or saw a monk took a weapon into his hand and check it in SL.
And also the love making scene is the worst I’ve ever seen. [Must say it is not suitable to SL viewers] It is simply like a man holding a woman[or about 60kgs. chunk of Flesh] and desperately trying to get rid of it.
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Peacelover / October 21, 2013
while i have not seen a monk with a machine gun,there have been many case of monks with pistols going about if in doubt ask that bugger Elle Gunawansa !
also we saw in pilliyandala and dambulla how the so called ‘virteous’ and ‘peaceful’ monks behaved in a violent way and its on CT if you care to search,so please take your preaching about monks elsewhere as your not winning any followers here mate!
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micheal / October 23, 2013
I don’t want to win any die-asspora followers here because we already won. Elle Gunawansa thero is a great monk who devoted his life to save and educate street kids. Now who is the bugger peacelover? Is it you or Elle Gunwansa.
Monks never peaceful whenever their existence threatened in any part of this world. That’s why Chinese monks develop Kung-Fu. Die-asspora,tamil politicians and INGO’s want monks to stay inside temple and mind their own business. That’s never gonna happen [Edited out].
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Peacelover / October 24, 2013
keep talking like a kavun kanda modaya Michael!
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Dr.Rajasingham Narendran / October 21, 2013
Three stories linked to the war in one realistic cinematic portrayal. It was revetting and brings into focus the tragedy the war was to many families and individuals. A widow who took to prostitution to feed her children. A son who witnessed the mother sell herself. A young women betrayed by a soldier who tells the monk, ” I do not have what Yasodhara ( Prince Siddhatha’s,s wife) had”. The Children being indoctrinated and the Tamil family that died because of a ransom demand they could not meet. The stupid and insensitive school Pricipal. The kindness of a man to a dead dog, amidst his own travail. Human passion realistically portrayed. A young woman’s revenge on her betrayer. The hunger and the difficulties of a widow to earn an income selling curd and reluctantly becomes a prostutute of sorts. This multifaceted struggle yet goes on almost five years after the war in many households in the former war zones.
The war dead were luckier than many who survived it.
A very sensitive film. The director and the actors deserve our unreserved praise.
I thank CT for the opportunity to view it.
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran
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Ken / October 24, 2013
Can you also show Madras Cafe!
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Deshapriya / October 27, 2013
The sound dubbing is just horrendous
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