{"id":210458,"date":"2020-05-12T15:27:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T09:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=210458"},"modified":"2020-05-17T12:10:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T06:40:19","slug":"beer-without-alcohol-or-love-without-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/beer-without-alcohol-or-love-without-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Without Alcohol Or Love Without Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Suren R\u0101ghavan<\/a> \u2013<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Suren R\u0101ghavan<\/p><\/div>\n

All cinema lovers must thank Asoka Handagama<\/a><\/span> \u2013 one of Lanka\u2019s best para-normal cinema makers for his latest cinematic? Social Intervention. Political responsibility of a constructive artist is to give hope to his\/her society a newer dimension of hope especially during a hopeless time<\/p>\n

Thinking about Love (or the absence of it) during a time when death is at the gate is a serious and responsible work, and Asoka has done it<\/p>\n

After watching the short film twice I am still unable to cage it to any know genre. May be one should not try as we need to break aware from such anxiety of labelling and packaging to fit into some slim and sexy ideology<\/p>\n

Asoka\u2019s example is an exceptional modeling of cinema making for new comers who are looking for with Spielberg budget and Scorsese casting for their debut. Intellectual and human cinema can be without such hyper – luxuries.<\/p>\n

Samanalee Foneseka (even while she had disagreed with me on many points of our recent political analysis) is one naturally gifted cine artists who has now mastered the \u2018representational school\u2019 of real acting versus method acting. Here she does it so cleverly \u2013 that begs a standing ovation.<\/p>\n

Nadee Kammallaweera \u2013 the not so \u2018fair\u2019 actress who reminds us that there are still others forms of acting and reacting has stamped out that in cinema even in a very short film like this a second role can rob the plot to stand out as the actual first role.<\/p>\n

In short – Beer Without Alcohol (BWA)- a short film \u2013 by Asoka Handagama, that evolves on a 20 minutes \u201cSkype?\u201d conversation among three friends lockdown during the Corona curfew in Colombo (and another in an Australian diasporic city*) –\u00a0<\/span>Film\u00a0<\/span>penetratiely\u00a0<\/span>tries to define what is Falling in Love ? arguably a phenomenon or a passing experience? In conversation among these four + one person \u2013 three searching for love and the other two (apparently) in love.<\/p>\n