They're here to celebrate their fifth anniversary. Darshana is Amritha, his wife, who accompanies him on a Sri Lankan tour while the country is undergoing a severe economic crisis, the film's backdrop. Roshan Mathew is Kesav, a filmmaker pitching a new project to an OTT giant. Paradise, which just premiered at the Busan International Film Festival, has characters conversing in Malayalam, Sinhala, Tamil and Hindi. This quality strongly resonates in the film's closing moments, which blew my mind.Ĭast: Roshan Mathew, Darshana Rajendran, Mahendra Perera, Shyam Fernando Paradise also makes a statement about the stories (myths and otherwise) people tell each other and their multiple interpretations. There's also the parallel to Ramayana, without making it seem forced.
These are just a few of the many layers in the Sri Lankan filmmaker's splendid work, which brings up the master-slave/man-animal dynamic through inventive parallels in various instances. In a previous scene, he tells him that venison meat is delicious. At a pivotal moment later in the film, the cop expresses his loyalty to this young filmmaker by calling himself a dog. On the other hand, his wife has a different plan in mind. A young filmmaker gets enthusiastic about a hunting trip because he yearns for venison meat. In Prasanna Vithanage's new film Paradise, an individual's attitude toward animals becomes a measuring gauge for their humanity.
