Somi Nanda Ratnayake, also known as Somi Ratnayake, is a Sri Lankan actor in Sri Lankan cinema, stage drama and television.
Highly versatile actor with a career spanning more than four decades, Rathnayake is multi-talented personnel also working as a scriptwriter and film producer.
Malan is a jobless 25 year-old youth who spends his days playing cricket with friends. He suffers from an irrational fear of ghosts and retreats to the safety of his home after sunset. His fear is so great he prefers to sleep with his widowed mother Geetha and have her accompany him to the bathroom at night, and also at the eating time. This creates major annoyance in the household, including Malan's brother Gamini, sister-in-law Nirmala and their children.
Set during the British colonial reign in Sri Lanka (1905), this powerful drama follows Peduru who descends from a line of traditional drummers, crossing over to three generations. Peduru's struggle for survival in this harsh rural hamlet exposes the repressive Buddhist institutionalization of the locals, and the hierarchical structure backed by the British colonials.
A woman plots her revenge after being duped by a slick, ruthless man who impregnates her and tries to bail her out of marriage.