The Other Half

It is the responsibility of the responsible human being to identify the human beings with different talents if the human community is to survive on this earth for another period of time. It was as if one day the human child under the human being got a ladder to climb. Heterogeneous cinematography wonderfully illustrates the hidden aspect of such a human community .

An exceptional movie produced by the award winning director Lalith Ratnayaka with English subtitles. Highlights the issues of a teacher centric education system that does not provide the tools or the flexibility to nourish blossoming young talent. Ruwansiri's love for music is not seen as important to the math teacher but his brilliant recital of a poem learnt from his grandfather makes the math teacher look at Ruwansiri's issue from a different perspective. In addition, knowing that the proceeds are used for a benevolent cause of providing clean drinking water to the farming communities affected by the chronic kidney disease makes me feel good.

Vishama Bhaga (The Other Half) is a very refreshing and calm motion picture. The director of the movie, Lalith Rathnayake, has been successful in keeping the flow of the movie at a calm but gradual phase that one could even relate it to a meditation. Throughout the movie you will notice many symbolic messages. Almost every frame is carefully produced to keep the dialogues and pictures in perfect balance. If you enjoy international artistic feature films, this is a must watch.

The movie is also one of the first charity feature films produced in Sri Lanka. Even though the main goal of the movie is to discuss the ill effects of teacher centric education, the secondary goal of this movie is to bring awareness to the ill effects of chemically contaminated ground water sources. The proceedings of the movie has been used to build water purification systems in rural areas in Sri Lanka to decrease the Chronic Kidney Disease prevalence.

One of the best movies i have ever seen everyone must watch this movie great movie

Current education system is only focussing on aligning the whole nation in given four mainstream studies which produce engineers, doctors, art graduates and business administrators. There is no say we can move forward as a nation under this prevailing system... this movie is based on one such case out of millions ... in a very short span of time it tries to elaborate on the issue ... it also shows the traditional wisdom, the fight against fertilizers, the on going fights with elephants etc... out of all the issues highlighted, one of the other things that caught my attention was not having access to drinking water... these are all results of poor decisions taken in the past by our political systems ... it's high time we correct them ASAP... I wish the director and the team all the best to make more and more movies in this nature which are authentic and are digging into the real country life of Sri Lankan rural communities ...