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Motor Bicycle

2016-08-26 · 105 min · Not rated

Drama

Rangana is a young musician from the working classes who dreams big. His aim is to rise above his station, even as he toils the low-rent barroom circuit with his band, playing night after night to under-appreciative crowds to make a frugal living. Tanya is the love of his life, the woman whom all this will be worth achieving. She is just finishing school. As he toils through the nights, his need of a mode of transport - a motor bicycle - becomes more and more apparent. He dreams of one day collecting enough money to buy one, finally buying a second hand motorbike despite his mother's great protest. He now wants to taste his new found freedom with his beloved Tanya, along the city streets of Colombo. As Rangana and Tanya embark on this motorbike journey across the city, questions about their present, challenges to their future and the very essence of their lives is brought to the fore, in "Motor Bicycle."

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Directors
Shameera Rangana Naotunna
Production companies
M Entertainments, Sirasa Movies
Countries
Sri Lanka
Status
Released

Top Cast

Dasun PathiranaDasun PathiranaRangana
Samanalee FonsekaSamanalee FonsekaTaniya
Mahendra PereraMahendra PereraManju
Kumara ThirimaduraKumara ThirimaduraThree wheel driver
Kalana GunasekaraKalana GunasekaraJimma
Nethalie NanayakkaraNethalie NanayakkaraPatta's mother
Dimuthu ChinthakaDimuthu ChinthakaPolice officer
Chamara PriyadarshanaChamara PriyadarshanaChamara
Chamal RanasingheChamal RanasingheSudda
Shalitha GunawardenaShalitha
Chandana WeerasingheOscar
Lasantha UdukumburaMayya
Veena JayakodyVeena JayakodyRangana's Mother
Vajira KodituwakkuVajira KodituwakkuManager
Dayadewa EdirisingheDayadewa EdirisingheGovernment Officer

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