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Epitaph for Sumitra Peries: A Poet of the Sri Lankan Cinema World-by Michael Roberts<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

Uditha Devapriya,\u00a0in Item on\u00a021 January 2023<\/a>\u00a0entitled\u00a0\u201cSumitra Peries Obituary: Poet of Sri Lankan Cinema\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Source:<\/span><\/strong>Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sumitra Epitaph Peries lived a life of travel and adventure before enrolling in film school in Brixton and going on to become one of the major, politically conscious figures in Sri Lankan cinema.<\/span><\/p>\n

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One of the defining auteurs of Sri Lankan cinema, Sumitra Peries was also one of few international figures from the island nation.\u00a0Her films capture, in all their nuances and complexities, the torments of being a woman in Sri Lanka and, by extension, in South Asia.\u00a0<\/strong>They dwell not merely on the rift between rich and poor, but also on the innocence of childhood and the torments of adolescent love. They centre on the woman\u2019s place in what was, and still largely is, a patriarchal\u00a0society.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Her first film,\u00a0Gehenu Lamai<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(Girls, 1978), establishes these themes remarkably well. At its centre is a poor village girl, Kusum, who has ambitions for a better life. Midway through, she falls in love with an affluent classmate who happens to be her cousin. But after a series of incidents that culminate with the discovery of their affair, Kusum\u2019s situation begins to deteriorate.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sumitra Peries as a teenager\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u00a9\u00a0Courtesy of Sumitra Peries<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Though hailing from an upper middle-class family, Sumitra came to identify strongly with such women. She was born\u00a0Sumitra Gunawardena<\/strong>\u00a0on 24 March 1935 in the village of Payagala and raised in the village of Avissawella, some 30 miles from Colombo. Her mother hailed from a family of affluent arrack distillers, and her father belonged to a household of radical political activists. Two of her paternal uncles became leading socialist politicians; one of them, Philip Gunawardena, earned the epithet \u2018Father of Socialism\u2019 in Sri\u00a0Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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All this shaped Sumitra\u2019s political consciousness from an early age. After she turned 13, a month after Sri Lanka obtained independence from Britain, she was sent to study in Colombo. Devastated by the loss of their mother two years later, her elder brother Gamini \u201cleft everything to us and then left the country\u201d. A few years later he got in touch with her: he was in Europe, and he wanted her to join him. \u201cI agreed at once. After scrounging up some money, I got aboard a\u00a0P&O<\/span>\u00a0liner and set sail to the Mediterranean in 1956, on my own. My father had given me his blessings.\u201d She was not quite\u00a021.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sumitra met her brother in Naples, from where they drove to Malta, where he had a yacht docked and was leading a bohemian life. Dropping anchor across the Mediterranean, she revelled in her new life, \u201cfrom the people we met to the food we ate\u201d. At Saint-Tropez, she came across Brigitte Bardot and Roger Vadim making\u00a0And God Created Woman<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(1956). It was the first time she had seen a film being\u00a0shot.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After her brother returned to Sri Lanka, she met her future husband, Lester James Peries, at the Ceylon Legation in Paris. Peries had made Rekava (1956), which heralded a breakthrough in Sri Lankan cinema around the same time Satyajit Ray\u2019s\u00a0Pather Panchali<\/em>\u00a0had in Indian\u00a0cinema.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lester advised Sumitra to leave for England. She did just that, enrolling at the London School of Film Technique (LSFT<\/span>) in Brixton, where she was the sole female student in a class of mostly white, middle-class males. Among her teachers was Lindsay Anderson, with whom she would remain friends until his death in 1994.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sumitra and Lester Peries in Sydney\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u00a9\u00a0Courtesy of Sumitra Peries<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sumitra excelled in her studies, but finding a job was not easy. Only after knocking on the doors of Elizabeth Mai-Harris, a subtitling firm, did she find work; her fluency in French helped her make her case. But after she began to grow homesick, she returned to Sri Lanka, where she worked as an assistant director on Lester\u2019s 1960 film\u00a0Sandesaya<\/em>\u00a0(The Message). Four years later, they were\u00a0married.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After working her way up in the industry as an editor, including on a few of her husband\u2019s films, Sumitra directed\u00a0Gehenu Lamai,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0which became a resounding success, at home and abroad. David Robinson of The Times lauded it for its \u201cholistic feminine\u00a0sensibility\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Its success emboldened her to make nine more films, all of them centring on female protagonists:<\/strong>\u00a0Ganga Addara (By the Bank of the River, 1980), Yahalu Yeheli (Friends, 1982), Maya (1984), Sagara Jalaya Madi Handuwa Oba Sanda (A Letter Written in the Sand, 1988), Loku Duwa (The Eldest Daughter, 1994), Duwata Mawaka Misa (Mother Alone, 1997), Sakman Maluwa (The Garden, 2003), Yahaluwo (Friends, 2007) and Vaishnavee (The Goddess,\u00a02017).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sagara Jalaya Madi Handuwa Oba Sanda<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is generally considered to be her finest work. Based on a short story, the film delves into the torments of a village woman (played by one of Sri Lanka\u2019s finest actors, Swarna Mallawarachchi), whose husband, a rice cultivator, dies after falling off a tree. The whole story is told from the point of view of her son, who can\u2019t understand why she becomes embittered towards everyone in the village after his father\u2019s death. The ending, the most poignant in Sumitra\u2019s entire work, shows the boy writing an imaginary letter in the sand to his uncle, urging him to employ him at the uncle\u2019s shop so that he can relieve his mother of her burdens. In its harsh sun-baked setting and its gruelling depiction of village life, it remains, then as now, unsurpassed.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sagara Jalaya Madi Handuwa Oba Sanda<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(1988)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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What stands out in these films more than anything is her aesthetic sensibility, a high regard for the right mise-en-sc\u00e8ne which, by her own confession, borders on a desire to zoom in and \u201cprettify everything\u201d. Mark Cousins put it best: \u201cusing zooms like Robert Altman,\u201d he once observed for me, \u201cshe probes shyness and tentative\u00a0love.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In addition to her work in film, Sumitra tried her hand in television, having studied the medium in the early 1970s in France, nearly a decade before its arrival in her home country. She also served in a number of official and academic posts, before departing for Paris as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for France and Spain from 1995 to\u00a01998.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When her husband died in 2018, a series of legal wrangles compelled her to leave her home in Colombo to a nearby suburb. She was still meeting people, particularly young, aspiring directors, and still advising them, while considering story options for her next film. Her death signals not just the passing of an era, but perhaps its very end: a fact Sri Lankans will only too sadly\u00a0acknowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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