The Outcast (1998)

Name: The Outcast
Released: 1998-03-18

1h 34m

Running Time

Plot.

A lonely widowed water-gate keeper is attracted to the lonely young wife of a soldier who is away at the battlefront. Their passionate need for each other is strongly condemned by the hypocritical villagers. The tragedy unfolds as the village is starved of its precious water supply.

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Cast & Crew.

Linton Semage

Director

Trelicia Gunawardena

Actress

Sarath Kothalawala

Actor

Saumya Liyanage

Homeguard

G.R. Perera

Actor

Rohana Weerasinghe

Composer

Elmo Halliday

Editor

Details.

Release Date
March 18, 1998

Original Name
Padadaya

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 34m

Last updated: 2025-02-16

Wiki.

Padadaya (The Outcast) (Sinhala: පාදඩයා) is a 1999 Sri Lankan Sinhala drama film directed and produced by Linton Semage for Hiru Films. It stars Linton Semage and Shyamali Warusavitana in lead roles along with Saumya Liyanage and Trilicia Gunawardena. Music composed by Rohana Weerasinghe. It is the 911th Sri Lankan film in the Sinhala cinema. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics.

The film won a Special Jury Award Dhaka International Film Festival held on 28 January 2000. It also shared the NETPAC Award for the Best Asian Film with fellow Sri Lankan film Saroja directed by Somaratne Dissanayake. The film represented Sri Lanka in competitive sections of Kerala, Mumbai, Oslo, Pusan and New Delhi International Film Festivals screened at the competitive section of the Buenos Aires International Film Festival in Argentina as well.