By Abeeth Sarathchandra
Like any other naive young girl of her same age would do, Julia can’t help but notice all the attractive young men she comes across. Unfortunately for her, fate plays one of its irresponsible games as she stumbles on a murderer on the run. Dilru is a murderer who is on the run from authorities in England for a murder case, and he comes down to his last resort Sri Lanka in utter desperation. Dilru also happens to be a born charmer of the ladies with his handsome looks and expensive dress sense. What happens to Julia after the chance rendezvous with this beautiful yet deadly stranger?

Dilru’s best friend Devi in the meantime comes down to Sri Lanka looking for him, and it turns out to be a fruitless effort. That’s when Devi happens to meet this special young lady, Julia. Shacky is the only true love of Devi’s life but will she remain that way forever? In what twisted way will Julia’s life affect Shacky? And Dilru, what happens to him?

A movie that can be enjoyed by all members of the family alike, Julia is a production of Charith Abeysinghe. It features the strange twists and turns fate takes as the lives of Julia, Dilru, Devi and Shacky get entangled in an un-reformable muddle of feelings of happiness and depression. How do these four people deal with their problems? What happens to them in the process? The movie Julia takes the viewer on a whole new experience of cinematic entertainment as the four main characters deal with the usually un-deal-able factors of love, lust and hate.

Another special element of Julia is the special dance item that has been choreographed by the famous dance instructor Prasanna Sujith and his assistant director/instructor Ramesh Babu. The fore-mentioned dance is said to feature twelve dancers from India.

The movie ‘Julia’ is directed by one of the youngest directors in Sri Lanka at the moment, Charith Abeysinghe in collaboration with Sampath Sri Roshen and Sanath Samaranaike on scripts. ‘Julia’ also marks their first joint venture into the movie arena. Charith and Sampath are also featured in the movie with the acting as well. They act alongside some of the big names of the Sri Lankan movie industry such as Ravindra Randeniya, Robin Fernando, Veena Jayakody, Sriyantha Mendis, Rex Kodippili, Sandun Wijesiri, Sanette Dikkumbura, Bandula Sooriya Bandara, Teddy Vidyalankara, Sasanthi Jayasekara, Nadeesha Hemamali, Harsha Bulathsinhala and Achala Walpola.

The shooting that was done for the movie in Sri Lanka by the well renowned camera-director Donald Karunarathne whereas the London scenes were done by the prestigious cameraman Allen. The make up artiste for the movie was Ranjith Mathangaweera, a personality that has excelled in both commercial and acclaimed movies as well. The action sequences for the movie were done by the renowned actor Teddy Vidyalankara. Hair styling was done by Sarath Ranaweera and art direction was done by Sujeewa Gunerathne with Ranjan Prasanna on the co-direction, Jagath Nissanka on Production Management, Indika Mallawaarachchi on still-shots and Ranga Dassanaike on music direction. Editing of the movie was done by the famous Hollywood director Jemman at the prominent Pinewood Studios. Julia is also the first Sinhala movie to be edited there.

The songs for Julia were written by Dr. Ajanthaa Ranasinghe, Kelum Srimal, Ananda Padmasiri and Namal Atigala. Music is by Ranga Dasanaike, Bhathiya Jayakody, Kasun Kalhara, Gretian Ananda and Nuwan Thenuwara. The vocals were done by Kasun Kalhara, Uresha Ravihari, Gretian Ananda, Bhavi Susan, Charith Abeysinghe, Bhathiya Jayakody and Ashanthi Sandria. The dubbing process for the movie was done by Ravindra Randeniya at the T. V. T. Institution.

Julia is also the first Sinhala movie to feature HD quality cinema, otherwise known as High Definition Cinema. The movie is set to debut at the internationally acclaimed ‘Empire Leicester Cinema’, London, on the 14th of December.

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