With You Without You
| Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka ඔබ නැතුව ඔබ එක්ක |
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| Directed by | Prasanna Vithanage |
| Produced by | Akar Films |
| Starring | Shyam Fernando Anjali Patil Maheshwari Ratnam Wasantha Moragoda |
| Music by | Lakshman Joseph De Saram |
| Cinematography | M.D. Mahindapala |
| Edited by | A. Sreekar Prasad |
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Release date
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6 September 2015 |
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Running time
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90 minutes |
| Country | Sri Lanka |
| Language | Sinhala/Tamil |
Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka (Sinhalese: ඔබ නැතුව ඔබ එක්ක) is a 2012 Sinhala/Tamil language film written and directed by prolific Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage and produced by Lasantha Navaratne, Mohammad Amadle, Prasanna Vithanage for Akar Films. It stars Shyam Fernando and Anjali Patil in lead roles with Maheshwari Ratnam and Wasantha Moragoda. Music composed by Lakshman Joseph De Saram.
Based on the novella A Gentle Creature by Fyodor Dostoyevski, Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka was adapted into a post-war Sri Lankan background. Principal photography was shot in Bogawanthalawa, Central Province, Sri Lanka and Sarasavi Studio in Colombo.
Sarathsiri, a man in his mid-forties, runs a pawn shop from his two-storied building in a remote town surrounded by tea plantations. He broods, rarely talks, and in his spare time intently watches professional wrestling on TV.
One day, Selvi, a young woman, lands at his pawn shop with a fistful of worthless trinkets and keeps coming back. Sarathsiri is intrigued by her and through his maid Lakshmi finds out that Selvi, a Tamil Christian is originally from Kilinochchi, an ethnic civil war stricken area of northern Sri Lanka. Her parents have sent her to this up country area of central Sri Lanka to save her life. Sarathsri gets to know that an older widowed businessman has asked for Selvi’s hand in marriage and immediately rushes in to declare his own desire to marry her. She accepts and they get married.
Once at home, Sarathsiri teaches her the basics of pawning business and tells her of his dream to own a tea plantation. However, he remains aloof, cold and unresponsive to Selvi who it seems is blossoming after the marriage. One day they go to see a South Indian Tamil movie at a local theatre. Selvi who has never seen a movie on a big screen is visibly happy. Sarathsiri, however, is his dour self and says it was a waste of money. While Selvi exudes a warmth and happiness, Sarathsri remains engrossed in his pawnshop and the wrestling bouts on TV.
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