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| Sekara started working on
this feature film as early as in 1967, shortly after publishing his novel of
the same title. It was screened in 1970 and was well received by the critics as
well as viewers. In all aspects of movie making (writing, directing, casting,
editing, art directing, and even lighting), Thun Man Handiya distinguished itself among the
other motion pictures made in Sri Lanka during the same decade, for which it
won the OCIC [Office Catholique Internationale du Cinema] award for the most outstanding film creation of the 1970s. His brief involvement with movie making extended into making of the ‘Siya Wasa’, a documentary made by the Ministry of Education to mark the Education Centenery in 1969. Initial sketches of a script found among the vast collection of his manuscripts reveal that he was involved in making a film as a learning aid. |
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