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Dada Ima (End of the Hunt) PROLOGUE Rathmalie's tragic story of cheat and deceit which resulted in her untimely death at the hands of her fiance', Priyankara, who ran over her in his car, was screened as the award winning and Internationally acclaimed Sinhala film 'Dadayama' (The Hunt) in 1985 in Sri Lanka (Directed by Wasantha Obeysekara). It was based on a true story which took placed many decades ago in which the accused was found guilty and sentenced to death by Supreme Court in Sri Lanka.

MOVIE - 'Dada Ima' (End of the Hunt) Dada Ima is a Sequel Drama genre movie, fictitiously based on 3 decade old 'Dadayama' film. After Rathmalie's demise, the custody of their one-year old son (Ravinath) falls under her sister, Rohini. Rohini without disclosing the truth about his parents to Ravinath, lives with him in Europe after leaving the motherland in 1986. Her reluctance to return to Sri Lanka is governed by her fears and disgust of a haunting past of her sister's catastrophic death. Priyankara, meanwhile, has absconded the legal repercussions by concealing the murder of Rathmalie for 30 years, and was residing in the UK under a false identity. After completing his education there, he now has come back to Sri Lanka as Keerthi Gajanayaka, a well-known President's Counsel. In the background of these past events, three decades of silence is shattered as Ravinath, who is now a renowned pianist is invited to perform at a concert in Sri Lanka. During his stay, he has a fateful encounter with Keerthi Gajanayake. Ravinath not realizing Keerthi to be his father, confronts him following a dream he sees, which is mixed with some past events of his "mother's" brutal murder. When Rohini understands that Priyankara, aka Keerthi is still alive, she decides to join her "son", with the aims of discovering the truth about her sister's murder, and to hide the malevolent past from Ravinath. 'Dada Ima' (End of the Hunt), smoothly unfolds the secrets of the past, and depicts that no one escapes punishment after committing a crime during his lifetime.

Jackson Anthony, Swarna Mallawarachchi, Akila Danuddara, and Mahendra Perera in Dada ima - End of the Hunt (2019)

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